Replication Mod Progression: Raw Replica to Your First Machines
The core progression in Replication moves from 
Raw Replica through 
Replica Ingots and 
Replica Blocks toward your first machines. Each step is simple, and the chain is short, so you can move from a lump of raw material to a working setup without much detour. This guide covers the conversions you need at every stage.
Starting With Raw Replica
Raw Replica is the material you begin with. It comes in two forms: the loose item and the compacted 
Raw Replica Block. You can convert between them freely depending on what you need.
- Raw Replica Block to Raw Replica: a shapeless craft that breaks one block back down into loose raw material.
- Raw Replica to Raw Replica Block: a shapeless craft that combines nine raw replica into one block.
Compacting is useful for storage, while breaking the block apart gives you raw replica to process. Neither form is wasted, so convert in whichever direction suits your inventory.
Turning Raw Replica Into Replica Ingots
Replica Ingot is the refined form of the material, and there are three separate ways to produce it from raw replica.
- Blasting: raw replica smelts into a replica ingot in a blast furnace. This is the faster route.
- Smelting: raw replica smelts into a replica ingot in a regular furnace. Slower, but available from the start.
- Crafting: a Replica Block can be broken down shapelessly into replica ingots.
The blasting and smelting recipes both take raw replica as input and output replica ingots. If you already have replica blocks on hand, the crafting route skips the furnace entirely. Pick whichever method matches the equipment you have.
Compacting Ingots Into Replica Blocks
Once you have ingots, you can store them as a Replica Block.
- Replica Ingot to Replica Block: a shapeless craft that combines nine replica ingots into one block.
This mirrors the raw replica block recipe, just one tier up. Keeping ingots in block form saves space, and the block doubles as a crafting ingredient if you need to convert back.
Converting Replica Blocks Back to Ingots
The block is not a dead end. If you need loose ingots again, break the block down.
- Replica Block to Replica Ingot: a shapeless craft that returns nine replica ingots.
Because this conversion is shapeless, you can perform it anywhere in your crafting grid without worrying about arrangement. The same is true of every conversion in this chain — none of them require a specific pattern.
A Practical Order of Operations
A straightforward path through the progression looks like this:
- Gather Raw Replica in its loose form.
- Optionally compact it into Raw Replica Blocks for storage.
- Break blocks back into raw replica when you are ready to process.
- Smelt or blast raw replica into Replica Ingots.
- Compact nine ingots into a Replica Block if you want compact storage.
- Break a Replica Block back into ingots whenever you need them loose.
Each step feeds the next, and every conversion is reversible. That means you never lock yourself out of a material — raw replica can become blocks and back, and ingots can become blocks and back.
What Comes Next
With Replica Ingots in hand, you have the refined material the rest of the mod builds on. The ingot is the gateway item for everything beyond this point, including your first machines. Focus on producing a steady supply of ingots before expanding further, since every later step depends on having them available.
The progression is deliberately short: raw material, refinement, storage, and then onward to machines. Master these conversions first, and the rest of Replication becomes much easier to approach.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Raw Replica Raw Replica Block Replica Ingot Replica Block Blasting Smelting