Ore goes in.
Up to five ingots come out.
Engineering’s first multiblock has arrived. The Quantum Ore Refinery runs Mekanism’s whole ore-processing chain, from smelting to dissolution and crystallization, inside one structure that you build, watch light up and tune from a single screen. Beside it, the Quantum Digital Miner gets quick filters and saved filter lists: one click to mine iron, gold, diamond and more. Around them, 1.2 brings a pocket Network Tablet, a Chargepad that draws from the quantum network, miner notifications you cannot miss, server commands, a reworked Radioactive Quantum Entangloporter, blue Quantum screens and new textures across the mod, and a long list of fixes.
Worlds from 1.1.1 open unchanged: new data is added beside the old, never in its place.
Quick filters · Quantum Digital MinerQuick filters and saved filter listsOne click to mine iron, gold, diamond and more.12 ore filtersReplace or Add32 saved listsSee quick filters ↓
A multiblock that turns ore into ingots, with a screen to run it and an optional Quantum/QIO module that sends what it makes straight to your network.
8accelerator places
4tanks, one per resource
10 × 4 × 3blocks, the structureThe level says how many items one ore makes, exactly as Mekanism’s own chains do: x1 smelts it, x2 enriches it first, x3 adds purification with oxygen, x4 adds injection with hydrogen chloride, x5 dissolves, washes and crystallizes it with sulfuric acid and water. An iron ore gives 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ingots; other ores follow their own Mekanism ratios.
Smelts it
Enriches it first
Adds purification with oxygen
Adds injection with hydrogen chloride
Dissolves, washes and crystallizes it with sulfuric acid and waterIron ingots from one iron ore at each level, with the processing module each level adds.
It uses Mekanism’s recipes, not its own. Every step reads the recipe of the item in front of it, so what a modpack changes in Mekanism changes the refinery with it. Ores, raw ores and raw blocks go in (including the raw silver block of Mekanism: More Machine and the raw naquadah block of Mekanism Extras), and so do the ores of other mods that Mekanism can process. The tag mekanismengineering:refinery_ores lists what goes in, and a data pack can change it.
Whole stacks at a time. A job works a stack of up to 64 ores. The x1 refines a whole stack in a single tick; the higher levels take longer, because they give more.
Each of the structure’s eight accelerator places that holds an Ore Refinery Accelerator shortens the job. With all eight, the x2 takes 1 tick, the x3 2, the x4 3 and the x5 4:
| Accelerators | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x2 (ticks per job) | 50 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| x3 | 100 | 61 | 38 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| x4 | 150 | 92 | 56 | 35 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| x5 | 200 | 123 | 75 | 46 | 28 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 |
Same energy at every level. An ore costs what it costs in an Enrichment Chamber, whatever the level and the speed: you pay for the ore, not for the speed.
3,000,000 mB of water, 600,000 mB of hydrogen chloride, 600,000 mB of oxygen and 120,000 mB of sulfuric acid. A job takes what its steps use in Mekanism (an iron ore at x5 takes 200 mB of sulfuric acid, 5,000 mB of water, 1,000 mB of hydrogen chloride and 1,000 mB of oxygen), all at once with the products, or nothing at all.
3,000,000 mBwaterx5 iron ore: 5,000 mB
600,000 mBhydrogen chloridex5 iron ore: 1,000 mB
600,000 mBoxygenx5 iron ore: 1,000 mB
120,000 mBsulfuric acidx5 iron ore: 200 mBWhat one iron ore at x5 takes from each tank.
You choose how far it goes. Click a level on the Home screen to set the highest level the refinery will use. With Always run off, it waits for that level; with it on, it works at the best level your tanks cover, and never below x2 unless you chose x1. When the tanks only cover part of a stack, a job takes as many ores as they cover and the rest of the stack waits for the next job, instead of stalling or dropping a level for the whole stack.
Home shows the status, the five levels (ready, waiting for a resource, working), the energy bar, the nine ore slots and the Always run buttons. Buffers shows four large gauges and the level each one unlocks. Stats shows the work in progress, level by level which resource is short, and a graph of the last five minutes. All of it in the same blue as the Quantum machines.
An optional block in the structure. With it, the products go to a buffer of 64 stacks and are sent every half second to a Quantum frequency or to a QIO you choose on its screen (public, trusted or private frequencies). The Output module tab sits right under Home on the controller screen, and the frequency is picked there. A full or missing destination keeps the products in the buffer: nothing is lost. Without the module, or without a frequency, the products leave by the output port. When the structure also has an output port, it is the spare buffer: what the module’s buffer cannot hold leaves by the port. With no output port, a full buffer makes the refinery wait, and nothing is lost. An Off / On switch on the module’s screen turns it off without breaking it: while it is off, the refinery works as if the module were not there (the products leave by the output port) and the module keeps its frequencies for when you turn it back on.
Nothing is refused. Anything the refinery cannot process passes through to the output untouched, so a mixed belt can feed it without a filter (a structure with no output port refuses it).
The structure (10 × 4 × 3) has a controller, casings, pillars, girders, conveyors, glass, ports, accelerators, four tanks and seven processing modules (dissolution, washing, crystallization, injection, purification, enrichment, smelting).
The structure has 18 places where a port can go: eight on each of the two lower floors of the back wall, between the two pillars, and one at the foot of each end. The drawing shows seven ports (five input, one output, one energy), but the structure needs only at least five input ports and at least one energy port, and the output port is optional: none or one. The energy port goes on the back wall; the two ends of the structure take only item input or the output, and the Quantum/QIO module sits at the output end. The free cells on the outside of the structure take any block, so you can wall or roof it with whatever you like; the free cells inside stay for air, glass or casing, and the module’s cell keeps its own rule. It forms by itself within a second of the last block being placed, tells you which block is wrong when it does not, and never loads a chunk to look. Like Mekanism’s multiblocks, red dust runs along its edges when you complete it.
≥ 5input ports≥ 1energy port0 or 1output port, optionalPorts. The input port takes ore as items, water as fluid and the three gases; sneak and click it with a Configurator to turn it between items, fluids and gases, a plain click shows its mode. The output port gives the products to a pipe, a hopper or a chest. The energy port takes Joules and Forge Energy. A port serves only one refinery. With no output port and no Quantum/QIO module linked, the refinery still forms but does not process any ore and shows “No output”; it takes and loses nothing, and carries on as soon as you add an output port or link the module.
Take it apart with a Wrench, like Mekanism’s own blocks. Breaking the controller keeps what it holds in its item.
Conveyors that carry real ore. Ore chunks of lapis, diamond, redstone, coal, glowstone and emerald ride the belts, instead of one plain sand colour.
Recipes. This is an end-game build: the structure blocks are made from Steel Casing, atomic alloys and ultimate circuits, the controller needs a Teleportation Core, an Ultimate Energy Cube and an Enrichment Chamber, each processing module is built around its Mekanism machine, and the tanks use Ultimate Fluid and Chemical Tanks with structural glass. They are shown in JEI.
JEI page. A page for the structure with a 3D view you can turn, the four layers and a grid of its 22 parts: click a part to light it in the view, with X-ray and “Alone” modes. Every block of the structure also has its own help sheet that leads to the page.
Jade and WTHIT. Any block of the structure shows the refinery’s state and level, the four stocks as gauges (drawn with the real fluid and chemical textures) and, for a port, its mode and what it serves. In Jade, the Quantum/QIO module has its own card with its buffer and a warning when the destination is full.
The Quantum Ore Refinery page → Structure and parts → Guide: your first refinery →
Set up a miner in one click. The “New filter” window now starts with ready-made ore filters, so you no longer type a tag name to mine iron.
Iron, gold, coal and redstone ores are always listed. Copper, lapis, diamond, emerald, tin, lead, osmium and uranium ores are listed whenever their ore tag exists in your game.
⟲ Drag to turnMakes the miner’s list that one filter.
Adds it only if the same tag filter is not already there.
Other mods’ ores included. Each quick filter is an ordinary Mekanism tag filter on the common ore tag, so the ores that other mods put in that tag are mined too. Nothing is scanned and no chunk is loaded to build it.
Save the miner’s filter list under a name, then load it on any miner with Replace or Add. Each player has their own library in the world or on the server: up to 32 lists of 128 filters, with names up to 24 characters.
Only the filters change. Radius, height, Silk Touch and every other setting stay as they are.
The Quantum Network Controller now fits in your hand. The tablet opens the same screen, with the same rights, wherever you are; it loads no chunk to do so.
The Controller and the Tablet: one becomes the other in the crafting grid.
The screen now shows each frequency as what goes in, what it holds and what goes out.
The Quantum Chargepad now has a screen and two modes.
Your Quantum Digital Miner now tells you, with a notification and Minecraft’s notification sound, when:
The notification shows the machine’s icon, a title, a detail line and the place: dimension and X, Y, Z. When only the loaded chunks of the zone were mined, a half-filled bar says so. Only the owner is notified, and only while connected; a miner with no owner notifies nobody. Beyond eight at once, the rest are counted in a single “+N more” notification. A client setting turns them off.
allowCoordinates) or the random tab (allowRandom), and list dimensions where those two tabs are blocked while the player stands in them (coordinateAndRandomBlockedDimensions). Teleporting by frequency is not affected. By default nothing changes: both tabs are allowed and the list is empty.
A new /mekeng command, for operators, with nothing destructive without confirm and no chunk ever loaded:
/mekeng build quantum_ore_refinery builds a whole refinery where you aim (choose its level, accelerators and module, or build it empty), and /mekeng remove quantum_ore_refinery takes one down. It only takes the refinery’s own blocks: a block of another mod placed on one of its free cells stays where it is. /mek build quantum_ore_refinery works too, through Mekanism’s own build command./mekeng refinery check | info | fill | clear | level | alwaysrun | accelerators inspects and drives a refinery: which cell is wrong, what it holds, fill its tanks and energy for a test, empty a group of slots./mekeng miner info | find | list reads the Quantum Digital Miners of your server./mekeng about prints the versions and the settings that matter.The accepted Mekanism range now runs up to 10.7.23, so the unofficial Mekanism Overclocked edition (10.7.20 to 10.7.23.3, same mod id) loads with the addon. The five official builds from 10.7.15 to 10.7.19 stay the supported ones.
The block now carries radioactive chemicals only (Spent Nuclear Waste and any other chemical Mekanism marks as radioactive), over radioactive frequencies of its own. Items, fluids, ordinary gases, energy and heat are the job of Mekanism’s own Quantum Entangloporter.
The Quantum machines: their screens are now the same blue.
Precision Logistical Distributor → Industrial Fluid Pump → Precision Upgrade Controller →
The refinery is the first of a family. More soon…
Mekanism: Engineering is an unofficial addon, independent of the Mekanism team. Please report issues to this project, not to Mekanism.
Written from the mod's own wiki and data files (05759a70, 2026-11-07).Mod v1.3 for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge, Mekanism 1.21.1-10.7.19.85) and Minecraft 1.20.1 (NeoForge, Mekanism 1.20.1-10.4.16.80).Block and item pictures are drawn from the game's models and textures; Mekanism's are under the MIT licence.Not an official Minecraft product, not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.