Gathering Raw Materials and Automating Resources
This guide focuses on obtaining raw materials and automating resource gathering in Modern Industrialization. The mod aims for total automation, allowing machines to generate and process resources. A key machine for early resource acquisition is the Quarry.
Quarry Operations
The Quarry machine is central to automating the collection of various raw materials. It processes items using drills to yield different resources. The Quarry has 7 distinct recipes.
Examples of Quarry recipes include:
- A
Steel Drill can produce 
Antimony Ore. This process consumes 12 EU/t and takes 600 ticks. - Using a
Copper Drill, the Quarry can yield 32 units of 
Cobblestone. This operation requires 4 EU/t and 600 ticks. - An
Iron Ore can be obtained with a 
Bronze Drill. This recipe uses 4 EU/t and 600 ticks. - A
Gold Drill will produce 32 units of 
Netherrack. This consumes 8 EU/t and takes 600 ticks. - To acquire
Titanium Ore, a 
Stainless Steel Drill is needed. This recipe uses 32 EU/t and 600 ticks. - For
Uranium Ore, a 
Titanium Drill is required. This process consumes 128 EU/t and takes 600 ticks. - The seventh entry is a compatibility recipe that only appears when the matching mod is installed, so most worlds see six.
Oil Drilling Rig
For liquid resources, the Oil Drilling Rig is used. This machine has 3 recipes.
Examples of Oil Drilling Rig recipes are:
- An
Aluminum Drill can produce 500 units of Crude Oil. This process consumes 8 EU/t and takes 200 ticks. - A Stainless Steel Drill can yield 4000 units of Shale Oil. This operation requires 32 EU/t and 200 ticks.
- To obtain 16000 units of water, a Copper Drill is used. This recipe consumes 2 EU/t and takes 100 ticks.
Coke Oven
The Coke Oven is a processing unit with 2 recipes.
Examples of Coke Oven recipes include:
Coal can be processed into 
Coke. This recipe consumes 2 EU/t and takes 600 ticks.
Coal Dust can be transformed into 
Coke Dust. This operation requires 2 EU/t and 600 ticks.
Reading the drill ladder
The quarry recipes are a progression in disguise. Every one of them takes 600 ticks, so the drill you fit does not change the speed — it changes what comes out and what it costs to run:
- Copper Drill — 32 Cobblestone at 4 EU/t
- Bronze Drill — Iron Ore at 4 EU/t
- Gold Drill — 32 Netherrack at 8 EU/t
- Steel Drill — Antimony Ore at 12 EU/t
- Stainless Steel Drill — Titanium Ore at 32 EU/t
- Titanium Drill — Uranium Ore at 128 EU/t
The jump from 32 to 128 EU/t between titanium and uranium is the real gate. Running a titanium drill continuously costs more than a small steam setup can supply, which is usually the point at which players move to a proper electrical grid.
The oil rig is three machines in one
The Oil Drilling Rig looks like a single-purpose machine and is not:
- Copper Drill — 16,000 mB of water every 100 ticks at 2 EU/t
- Aluminum Drill — 500 mB of Crude Oil every 200 ticks at 8 EU/t
- Stainless Steel Drill — 4,000 mB of Shale Oil every 200 ticks at 32 EU/t
The copper recipe is the one people miss. Sixteen buckets of water per 100 ticks for 2 EU/t makes the rig the cheapest bulk water source in the mod, which matters because water feeds boilers, the electrolyzer and most of the chemical line. Shale oil is eight times the crude yield per operation, so the stainless drill pays for itself quickly once the distillation tower is running.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: modern_industrialization:quarry Oil Drilling Rig Coke Oven
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