Mekanism Energy: Cubes, Cells, and Transmitters
Mekanism runs on stored energy moved through tiered transmitters. This guide covers how to store power and pipe it — and everything else — around your base.
Storing energy
The 
Energy Tablet is the portable battery, crafted from redstone, gold and 
Infused Alloy. Energy Cubes store power in a block, upgrading from Basic through Advanced with Infused Alloy and an Energy Tablet. For bulk storage, Induction Cells and Induction Providers scale a Mekanism induction matrix to hold and output far more.
Transmitters
Mekanism has a transmitter for every resource, and each comes in tiers upgraded by wrapping eight of the previous tier with an Infused Alloy:
- Universal Cable — energy.
- Mechanical Pipe — fluids.
- Pressurized Tube — chemicals and gases.
- Logistical Transporter — items.
- Thermodynamic Conductor — heat.
Building it out
Start with basic cables and an energy cube next to your first machines, then upgrade transmitters to higher tiers as throughput demands grow. Because every tier is just the previous tier plus Infused Alloy, a steady alloy supply lets your whole network scale together.
The chemical half of the mod is 1.21.1 only
Seven whole recipe categories exist on the newer build and are completely absent on 1.20.1:
- Pigment Extracting — 226 recipes on 1.21.1, none on 1.20.1
- Oxidizing — 25, Chemical Conversion — 24, Dissolution — 23
- Pigment Mixing — 16, Washing — 7, Chemical Infusing — 4
- Energy Conversion — 2
Anything built around those processes cannot be reproduced on the older line at all.
And one category went the other way
Painting runs 976 recipes on 1.20.1 against 176 on 1.21.1 — the colour system was reorganised, with much of it moving into pigment extraction and mixing on the newer build.
The bulk of the mod is ore processing
Enriching (322 recipes on 1.21.1), Crushing (313) and Sawing (440) dwarf everything else. Sawing in particular jumped from 153 recipes to 440 between versions, so wood processing is far broader on the newer build.
Practical reading
Mekanism's energy tiers are the same on both lines; it is the chemistry and colour systems that differ. When a guide does not match your game, check whether it uses one of the seven 1.21.1-only categories before assuming an installation problem.