Kenergy Engineering Retechnicalized

Content Overview

Kenergy Engineering Retechnicalized (KER) is a remake branch of Technical Engineering 4 — a tech mod about processing and automation infrastructure. Engines make power, cables carry it, machines process, pipes and channels move the output away, and batching scales it up. The whole chain lives in one mod. This page lists the content; recipes, timings and numbers belong to the in-game guide and to your recipe viewer.

Platform: Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge

Processing machines

Eight machines, one shared recipe model, one batching rule, one stall behaviour — learn one, you know them all. A cycle runs several units at once and waits when input, output room or energy falls short.

Machine	What it does
Smelter	Runs vanilla furnace recipes on power; upgrades switch it to blasting or smoking
Pulverizer	Grinds ores and metals into dust for more output, with extra byproducts
Compressor	Presses plates, rods, gears and wires with moulds; the mould is not consumed
Refiner	Refines back and forth between item and fluid form to push materials up the chain
Induction Furnace	Combines several inputs into alloys
Psionicant	Pairs two inputs in fixed combinations to synthesise hard-to-get materials
Enchantment Flusher	Moves enchantments from a tool onto a book or a blank tool and turns them into Liquid XP
Matter Condenser	Burns a catalyst to condense Bizarrerie fluid continuously

Environmental and field machines

Seven machines, no recipe slots — they work from their own position and facing. Progress survives low power, a redstone cut or a full output, and resets when the input disappears.

Machine	What it does
Cooler	Sits against a machine's front face and cuts its processing time, burning coolant
Beacon Simulator	Keeps a wide area under a potion effect, using one potion item as a template
Mob Ripper	Clears the mobs behind it with the weapon in its weapon slot
Quarry	Digs down through the entire chunk it sits in, all the way to the dimension floor; standard or fast scan
Farm Manager	Takes over the farmland behind it, replanting and harvesting mature crops
Block Breaker	Breaks blocks in front of it at the cost of tool durability
Block Former	Places blocks in front of it, refilling from its candidate bar

Engines

All four default their energy face to output and push power into adjacent machines or cables.

Machine	What it does
Extraction Engine	Burns ordinary fuel
Metal Engine	Burns metal ingots
Biomass Engine	Burns leaves, logs and other plant matter
Solar Engine	Runs on sky light, so it needs open sky and clear weather

Energy and transmission

Device	What it does
Energy Cell	A power buffer that also charges and drains battery items
Energy Module	A portable battery that quietly recharges powered gear on you and in your curio slots
Energy Cables	Four tiers from thin to thick, auto-connecting to neighbours, placeable underwater
Item Pipes	Normal, whitelisting and blacklisting variants; only a side set to pull reaches into a machine
Spanner	Rotates a machine, and sneak-right-click picks it up with its contents and upgrades intact

Channels

Shared storage that crosses dimensions and machines, split into three types — two channels with the same name but different types never talk to each other. The channel connector attaches machines to a channel, and channel blocks work as ordinary containers too.

Channel	What it does
Item Channel	Shared stock; the more machines attached, the more of one item it holds
Fluid Channel	One shared tank
Energy Channel	One shared buffer

Face config and upgrades

Every face of a machine is set on its own — in, out, passive or off, with both as the default. Redstone control lives in the same screen. When a machine stalls, check face permissions first, then room in the input and output, then redstone and power. Range machines can draw their working area, and mining and breaking can apply tool enchantments.

Upgrades go into the upgrade slots of the machine screen; anything a machine does not support is refused outright.

Upgrade	What it does
Powered Kit	Faster and stronger, plus extra batch
Augmented Kit	Faster and stronger, more gently
Shulker Kit	The biggest speed, power and batch gains; found in end city chests
Photosynthetic Power	Feeds the machine a little power in open sky during dry daytime, at the cost of longer processing
Range Expansion	Widens the working radius of range machines
Blasting Professor	Moves the Smelter to blasting recipes; exclusive with smoking
Smoking Professor	Moves the Smelter to smoking recipes; exclusive with blasting
Knowledge Expansion	The Smelter yields Liquid XP alongside each smelt
Mineral Detection	The Quarry pulls only ores
Frozen Soil Drilling	The Quarry outputs ice
Mantle Drilling	The Quarry outputs lava
Potion Effect Extraction	Raises the Beacon Simulator effect by one amplifier
Starlight Energy Deliverance	Placeholder, currently does nothing

Materials

Category	What is there
Metals and ores	Tin, nickel, powered tin, chlorium and mushrium alongside the usual iron, copper, gold and gem materials
Worked shapes	Dust, plate, rod, gear and wire, plus raw and storage forms
Moulds	Nine of them, deciding what the Compressor produces
Fluids	Liquid XP, honey, royal jelly, spicy jelly and bizarrerie, all bucket-carriable
Components	Redstone parts and AI chips, hydraulic widget, azure glass, indigo

Every material is registered under common tags, so other mods can add members and our machines will take them.

Mod compatibility

Mod	What you get
JEI (recommended)	A recipe page for every machine, three for the Smelter, plus engine fuel and coolant pages
EMI	Machine and fuel pages are implemented and still being verified in-game
Jade	Shows channel attachment and whether a pipe side is pulling
GuideME (optional)	Required for the guide book; the mod runs fine without it
Curios API (optional)	Lets the Energy Module charge curio-slot gear
AE2 ecosystem	Not a requirement; machine interfaces follow the read and write rules logistics mods expect, so pattern providers and similar devices can attach
Ender IO, Ender IO: Evolution, Mekanism, Immersive Engineering, All the Ores, Allthemodium, NEO ECO AE Extension	The Pulverizer, Compressor and Induction Furnace pick up their ore and material chains, and a recipe with missing input disappears instead of showing something you cannot run

In-game guide

The Kenergy Engineering Guide needs GuideME and covers everything from powering your first machine to face config and the order a batch lock is evaluated.