Automating Production with Assemblers, Mixers, and Presses
Getting Started with Machine-Based Crafting
The Assembling Machine, Mixer, and Press are dedicated blocks that automate specific categories of item production. Each machine handles a distinct set of recipes, and you will need to supply the correct ingredients to each one to obtain its outputs. These machines replace manual crafting for their respective recipe lists, allowing for bulk and automated processing.
The Assembling Machine
The Assembling Machine is used for assembling complex components and intermediate goods. It has 17 recipes, many of which produce advanced electronic, mechanical, and plating items. For example, you can use it to create a 
Basic Battery from a 
Plastic Sheet, two 
Electrum Ingots, and a 
Steel Ingot. A variant recipe uses 
Fluxite instead of one Electrum Ingot to yield two Basic Batteries at once.
Other notable outputs include 
Blaze Rods from four 
Blaze Powder, and 
Books from three 
Paper and any leather item. The machine can also produce 
Budding Amethyst using two amethyst gems, 
Enderic Compound, and an 
Overcharged Crystal. For advanced machinery, you can craft 
Processing Units, 
Flux Gates, 
Motors, and 
Magnetic Coils here. Plating types like 
Copper Reinforced Plating, 
Iron Reinforced Plating, and 
Nickel Reinforced Plating are also assembled in this machine, each requiring a Plastic Sheet, two of the relevant metal ingots, and a Steel Ingot.
The Assembling Machine also handles several organic and fuel-related recipes. You can turn a 
Dark Oak Log with three 
Glowstone into a 
Shroomlight, or combine 
Honeycomb with three 
Biomass to make a 
Slimeball. For solid fuel, mix three Biomass with 
Oak Planks to get 
Solid Biofuel. The machine also produces 
Superconductors, though the exact ingredients for that recipe are not listed here.
The Mixer
The Mixer is designed for combining dusts, gems, and fluids into alloys and refined ingots. It has 12 recipes. A core function is ore-to-ingot conversion: two 
Copper Gems produce three 
Copper Ingots, and the same ratio applies to Gold, Iron, Nickel, and Platinum gems. For alloying, combine a 
Diamond with a 
Nickel Ingot to make an 
Adamant Ingot, or mix an Adamant Ingot with a 
Netherite Ingot to create a 
Duratium Ingot. Other alloys include 
Biosteel Ingot from 
Raw Biopolymer and an 
Iron Ingot, Electrum Ingot from 
Redstone Dust and a 
Gold Ingot, and 
Energite Ingot from Fluxite and a Nickel Ingot.
The Mixer also produces Steel Ingots by combining 
Coal Dust with an Iron Ingot. For liquid processing, you can mix Fluxite with 1000 mb of Still Oil to produce 1000 mb of Turbofuel, a high-grade fuel source.
The Press
The Press is a simpler machine with only one known recipe. It is used for pressing Biomass into a denser form. The exact output of this pressing operation is not specified, but the machine is dedicated to this single transformation.
Additional Context: Crafting
Beyond these three machines, there is a broader category of Crafting that includes 245 recipes. These are standard manual crafting recipes and are not processed by the Assembling Machine, Mixer, or Press. For instance, you can manually craft an 
Acceptor Addon using five Plastic Sheets, one Energite Ingot, two Electrum Ingots, and one Copper Reinforced Plating. This distinction is important: always check which machine or manual grid is required for your target item.
Practical Tips
- Feed each machine only the ingredients listed for its recipes; they do not share recipe lists.
- The Assembling Machine is your primary tool for high-tier components like
Ion Thrusters, 
Reactor Walls, and 
Carbon Plating Blocks. - Use the Mixer for bulk gem processing and alloy production to save manual crafting time.
- The Press is highly specialized—use it only for its single biomass-related recipe.
By organizing your production lines around these three machines, you can automate the creation of most intermediate and advanced materials needed for progression.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Assembling Assembling Machine Mixing Pressing Crafting Energizing