Refinery and Advanced Oil and Ore Processing

🏭 Industrial Refinery

Heavy Industry • Fractional Distillation • Thermodynamic Closed-Loop Steam Power • Metallurgy • BuildCraft-Style Pipe Logic Gates

Built natively for Minecraft 26.3 on NeoForge.

📖 Overview

Industrial Refinery is an expansive industrial engineering mod designed to bring realistic, rewarding progression back to Minecraft. From prospecting for subterranean crude oil reservoirs in oceans and deserts with kinematic pump jacks, to fractional distillation, closed-loop Rankine thermodynamic power cycles, high-temperature electric arc metallurgy and continuous ingot casting, agricultural mechanization, extruded aluminum conveyor logistics, and the legendary return of BuildCraft-style programmable Pipe Logic Gates!

Whether you play standalone or alongside logistics and tech mods, Industrial Refinery delivers high-performance, lag-free automation with zero hard dependencies.

⚙️ Key Features

🛢️ 1. Petroleum Geology, Downhole Extraction & Fractional Distillation

• Real In-World Fluid Crude Oil: Naturally occurring subterranean oil reservoirs and surface lakes rimmed with bituminous tar sand, red oil sand, and oil shale. Viscous black liquid featuring authentic fluid physics and animated flows.
• Deposit Capacities & Spacing: Standard oil pits yield 600,000 mB to 1,000,000 mB, with rare high-pressure Super-Geysers erupting with 2,000,000 mB! Generates ~1 in 200 chunks with an enforced 20-chunk (320-block) minimum spacing between wells to prevent clustered lakes.
• Persistent Anti-Retrogen: Oil deposits are strictly registered once generated. Even when drained completely dry, chunks will never re-generate oil over your quarries or drills.
• Crude Pump Jack (2x3x3 Multiblock Beam Pumping Unit):
  • Heavy industrial oil extraction unit with an authentic kinematic walking beam (±12° rocking), counterweighted rotating crank wheels (360°), Samson post A-frame, arc horsehead, and vertically reciprocating polished rod entering the wellhead.
  • Placed from a single inventory item with safe single-item drop recovery.
  • Automatically prospects downhole vertical columns beneath the wellhead (up to 50 blocks depth, 10-block horizontal radius) for crude oil sources.
  • Power-scalable extraction rates: 1 FE/t (100 mB/min), 2 FE/t (500 mB/min), and 4 FE/t (1,000 mB/min).
  • Front wellhead acts as an auto-export port directly pushing crude oil into connected pipes and tanks.
• 3-Stage Fractional Distillation Column (3x9x3 Multiblock — Three 3x3x3 Stages):
  • Divided into Stage 1 (Bottom: Liquid Tar & Bitumen), Stage 2 (Middle: Diesel), and Stage 3 (Top: Gasoline).
  • Consumes 1,000 mB Crude Oil per cycle with individually toggleable stages via a dark gunmetal telemetry GUI.
  • Flexible distillation outputs: Stage 1 only -> 500 mB Liquid Tar + 1 Bitumen; Stage 2 only -> 500 mB Diesel; Stage 3 only -> 500 mB Gasoline; All 3 Stages -> 250 mB Tar + 250 mB Diesel + 250 mB Gasoline + 25% chance for 1 Bitumen.
  • Takeoff ports auto-push fluids into connected pipes and tanks; Byproduct Ports auto-eject solid Bitumen and Tar directly onto adjacent conveyor belts, pipes, or containers.
• Burner & Electric Refinery Furnaces (1x2x1 Heat Sources):
  • Supply the required operating heat (>= 350°C) placed adjacent to Stage 1.
  • Choose between the Burner Refinery Furnace (4x rapid burn speed across 3 fuel slots) or Electric Refinery Furnace (500 FE/t, 500,000 FE buffer).
  • Single-item placement and drop safety with glowing serpentine crude-oil heating coils.
• Bitumen Storage Pile (3x3 Multiblock Bulk Storage):
  • Heavy 18-part loose material bunker with real-time dynamic 3D visual heightfield mesh stages.
  • Physically mounds up from a dusting inside reinforced steel retaining walls to a towering 2-block asphalt peak as inventory fills (up to 3,456 items across 54 double-chest slots).
  • Hopper-style vacuum absorption automatically sucks in nearby dropped bitumen items with pebble impact sounds and particle splashes.
  • Full multi-sided item extraction and hopper/pipe connectivity.

⚡ 2. Thermodynamic Closed-Loop Steam Power (Rankine Cycle)

• Small (3x3x3) & Large Heavy (5x5x5) Steam Boilers:
  • Boil water with solid coal/coke or liquid petroleum fuels into pressurized Steam.
  • Monolithic Scotch marine boiler geometry with opening cleanout hatches, realistic overheating mechanics, and audible emergency raid siren alarms if water runs dry.
• Steam Turbine Generator (3x3x3 Multiblock):
  • Converts high-pressure steam into 1,000 FE/t of clean electricity while simultaneously condensing the exhaust steam back into pure water.
  • High-fidelity monolithic 3D turbine-generator skid in vibrant industrial electric blue, featuring an AC alternator, speed-reduction gearbox, curved split casing, dial gauges, and emergency stop controls.
  • Overhauled dark gunmetal GUI featuring digital telemetry (RPM readout, power rate, status LED), rotating blade activity monitor, and recessed fluid gauges.
• Closed-Loop Conservation: Pipe the turbine's condensed water directly back into your boiler to build completely closed-loop, self-sustaining power plants with zero water loss!
• Industrial Diesel Generator (1x2x2 Compact Power Plant):
  • Standalone internal combustion power station generating 256 FE/t directly from refined Diesel fuel.

🔨 3. Heavy Metallurgy, Continuous Casting & Mineral Processing

• Industrial Blast Smelter (5x5x5 Multiblock):
  • Massive refractory foundry with a 3x3 transparent heat-resistant glass viewing window.
  • Smelts iron ingots/blocks and coal/coal blocks into structural Steel Ingots.
• Industrial Metal Press (3x2x2 Multiblock):
  • Heavy hydraulic mechanical press with an animated ram, anvil impact sounds, and swappable Stamping Dies:
    • Plate Die: Cold-forms ingots (Steel, Iron, Copper, Gold, Tin, Bronze) into industrial Plates.
    • Gear Die: Cold-forms ingots or plates into industrial Gears at 4x material efficiency over hand crafting.
    • Corrugated Steel Die: Cold-forms 1 Steel Ingot/Plate into 4x Corrugated Steel Panels (or 1 Iron -> 2 Panels).
    • Rail Die: Cold-forms steel/iron/gold/copper into vanilla and powered rails.
• Industrial Multi-Smelter (5x4x3 Multiblock):
  • Early-game 8-in-1 smelting array with dual-fuel operation (Solid Fuel or 30 FE/t RF).
  • 6-block hollow combustion chamber with dynamic 3D floating cooking items and pulsing ember or RF induction animations.
  • Crafted entirely from early-game materials — no steel required!
• Industrial Grinder & Pulverizer (3x3x3 Multiblock):
  • Dual-motor mineral crusher with twin counter-rotating spiked drums and animated block pulverization.
  • Delivers 2x Ore Doubling, crushes stone into gravel and sand, and pulverizes oil sand into 3x Bitumen with a 50% chance for Tar.
• Electric Arc Melter (3x3x3 Multiblock):
  • Monolithic 3D Industrial Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) with cylindrical water-cooled ribbed shell, high-voltage transformer vault, copper busbars, charge hopper, and eccentric bottom-tapping launder spout.
  • 3 reciprocating graphite electrodes discharging dynamic 3D plasma arc bolts into a glowing molten metal bath (Molten Iron, Gold, Copper, Tin, Bronze, and Glass) with 2x ore doubling!
• Continuous Casting Press (3x3x3 Multiblock):
  • Monolithic 3D Heavy Hydraulic Continuous Casting & Quenching Press with 4 chrome tie-rod columns, overhead hydraulic cylinder, hazard-striped ram crosshead, copper crystallizer mold, receiver troughs, and motorized run-out roller table that stamps and quenches molten metal into solid ingots and glass blocks.
• Refractory Open Casting Channels:
  • Open 3D refractory trough geometry for seamless gravity-fed molten metal transfer between Arc Melters, Casting Presses, and fluid pipes.
• Corrugated Steel Panels:
  • Heavy industrial structural cladding and roofing panels in unpainted galvanized steel and 16 dyed colors.
  • Seamless tiling with 3-axis pillar orientation and full LabPBR 1.3 normal maps & Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) for realistic 3D depth and metallic specular sheen in modern shaderpacks.
• Industrial Fermenter (Agricultural Biofuel):
  • Standalone bioreactor that ferments crops (Wheat, Potatoes, Beetroots, Sugar Cane) into high-yield Ethanol fuel.

📦 4. Industrial Belt Conveyor Logistics System

• Modular Low-Profile Belt Conveyors (refinery:conveyor_belt):
  • Extruded anodized aluminum bed frame with side T-slot channels, heavy cast mounting foot pads, and galvanized steel deck bed.
  • Dynamic UV scrolling matte black rubber belt and rotating brushed stainless steel end rollers matching belt velocity.
  • Physical item centering, smooth propulsion, and item-only conveyance with zero mob or player interference.
  • Intelligent seamless snapping: placing conveyors in a row automatically removes intermediate terminals, rendering end rollers only at open line terminals.
  • Direct machine injection: items reaching the conveyor head automatically inject into adjacent inventories, chests, hoppers, and machines.
• Adaptive Corner & T-Intersection Junctions:
  • Automatically adapts side frames when conveyors meet at 90 degrees or form T-junctions: retracts the receiving side rail so items roll smoothly onto the belt, while adding a protective rear corner guard rail at 90° bends to prevent item spillage.
• Sloped Conveyor Belt (refinery:sloped_conveyor_belt):
  • Transports items smoothly up or down 1-block elevations with height-interpolating slope physics and seamless crest handoffs.
  • Dynamically extends continuous aluminum support legs with heavy bolted foot pads down to the ground (raycasts up to 32 blocks down).
• Right-Angle Conveyor Belt (refinery:right_angle_conveyor_belt):
  • Dedicated 90-degree curved corner conveyor with two-phase vectoring to guide incoming items cleanly into 90° turns without dead zones.

🛢️ 5. Glass-Fused-to-Steel (GFS) Multiblock Liquid Storage Tanks

• Industrial Bulk Liquid Storage: High-capacity Glass-Fused-to-Steel (GFS) / Enamel bolted industrial liquid storage tanks based on municipal and petroleum engineering.
• Six Scalable Capacities:
  • 3x3x3: 64,000 mB (64 Buckets)
  • 3x3x6: 256,000 mB (256 Buckets)
  • 3x3x9: 512,000 mB (512 Buckets)
  • 5x5x5: 1,000,000 mB (1,000 Buckets)
  • 5x5x7: 2,000,000 mB (2,000 Buckets)
  • 5x5x9: 4,000,000 mB (4,000 Buckets!)
• Universal Fluid Handling: Accepts and stores any fluid resource (Water, Lava, Crude Oil, Diesel, Gasoline, Steam, Ethanol, Molten Metals) with transactional rollback safety.
• Top Intake & Bottom Direct Auto-Push Drainage:
  • Fills through the top-center fill valve via pipes, pumps, or buckets.
  • Drains through the bottom-center drain valve, which actively pushes stored fluid downward and horizontally into connected pipes — no extraction pipe or mechanical puller required!
• Sight Glass & Purge Controls:
  • Full-height illuminated sight glass displaying fluid color, percentage, formatted fluid name, and exact mB volume.
  • Dedicated "Dump / Flush" button in the GUI to instantly purge residual fluids when reconfiguring tank storage.
• Monolithic 3D Render & Holographic Blueprints:
  • Glossy dark enamel bolted plates, concrete foundation curb, wind stiffener rings, caged safety ladder, and roof handrails.

⛽ 6. Portable Industrial Fluid Pumps & 3D Suction Hose

• Three Specialized Variants:
  • Coal Fluid Pump: Heavy Cast-Iron Dark Charcoal frame. Single solid-fuel slot burning coal, charcoal, or furnace fuels at 1 coal per 3 seconds of active pumping.
  • Diesel Fluid Pump: Caterpillar Yellow-Orange frame. 4,000 mB internal diesel reservoir consuming 10 mB per bucket pumped (1 bucket powers 100 buckets pumped).
  • Electric Fluid Pump: High-Voltage Electric Blue frame. 20,000 FE buffer consuming 400 FE per bucket pumped (20 FE/t).
• In-World 3D Flexible Suction Hose: Sneak-click with the Refinery Wrench to link, then click any block or fluid source in the world (up to 64 blocks away) to deploy a dynamic 3D spiral-ribbed suction hose with brass suction strainer.
• BFS Flood-Fill Navigation: Intelligently discovers and pumps all contiguous, connected fluid source blocks one at a time from the intake point outward.
• Infinite Water Mode ([ INFINITE ] / [ DRAIN ]): Toggleable in the dedicated GUI or by Shift-Right-Clicking the pump block in-world with an empty hand or wrench! Infinite mode draws unlimited water without destroying source blocks; Drain mode clears fluid bodies completely dry.

🔌 7. BuildCraft-Style Pipes & Pipe Logic Gates

The classic BuildCraft automation experience, re-engineered natively for modern Minecraft!

• Native 3D Monolithic Pipes:
  • Slender pixel-art profile with 360° clear glass bodies and heavy industrial collars.
  • Traveling items are fully visible in transit with smooth interpolation and ambient lighting.
  • Includes Item Pipes, Fluid Pipes, Redstone Valve Pipes, Buffer Pipes, Quartz Merge Pipes, Insertion, Sorting, Round-Robin, and Void Pipes.
• BuildCraft-Style Pipe Facades & Structure Pipes:
  • Conceal pipes seamlessly behind any full block texture (Vanilla, Refinery, or modded) with LabPBR metallic specular and normal map support.
  • Structure pipes provide zero-flow structural routing for wires and gates.
• Slim Face Attachment: Attaches flush onto any face of a pipe, machine, chest, or refinery port with non-solid hitboxes.
• 4 Gate Tiers:
  • Basic Gate: 1 conditional trigger-action pair.
  • Iron Gate: 2 conditional pairs + Red & Blue wire channels.
  • Gold Gate: 4 conditional pairs + 4-wire network support.
  • Diamond Gate: 8 conditional pairs across an industrial dual-column dashboard.
• Autarchic Pulsar (Automated Extraction): Upgrade any gate with an Autarchic Chipset (via crafting or in-world right-click) to pulse every 1 second, pulling 1 item from adjacent containers into the pipe or pumping 250 mB of fluid. No redstone clocks or external engines required!
• 4-Color Pipe Wires: Broadcast Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow logic signals along continuous pipe networks up to 24 blocks.

🌾 8. Standalone Agricultural Automation

• Automated Planter: Smart cultivator with GUI On/Off switch and configurable work radius up to 9 blocks in all directions (3x3 up to 19x19 / 361 tiles). Automatically tills soil and plants seeds or tree saplings.
• Automated Harvester: Omnidirectional farm harvester with GUI On/Off switch and configurable radius up to 9 blocks. Auto-harvests mature crops, fells whole trees via 3D recursive flood-fill, replants seeds, and auto-ejects drops into chests or pipes behind or below.
• Livestock Feeding Trough: Monolithic galvanized steel feed bunk with dynamic 3D golden hay mound that rises and falls with inventory stock, 4.5m herd radar, automated breeding for off-cooldown adults, and full dietary compatibility with zero food waste.

🔧 9. 3D Holographic Blueprints & The Refinery Wrench

• The Refinery Wrench: Right-click any multiblock controller to project a life-sized, translucent 3D in-world building hologram for 30 seconds.
• Color-Coded Holograms: Every block type renders in a signature high-contrast color (Emerald Controllers, Petroleum Amber Ports, Canary Diesel, Flame Orange Fuel, Fiery Red Fireboxes, Lime Energy, Crystal Purple Glass) so multiblock construction is effortless.
• Instant Dismantling: Shift + Right-Click any mod machine block with the wrench to instantly break and collect it into your inventory.
• In-Game Field Manual / Guide Book: Comprehensive in-game handbook covering multiblock layouts, recipes, progression flowcharts, and automation mechanics.

🔌 Mod Compatibility

Industrial Refinery is built with zero hard dependencies:

• Logistics Mod:
  • Full native pipe attachment & gate operation.
  • 1:1 interchange recipes between refinery:tar <-> logistics:core/tar and refinery:bitumen <-> logistics:core/bitumen.
  • 8 Logistics fluid pipes craftable using Refinery tar.
  • Industrial Grinder pulverizes all Logistics oil sands and outputs preferred Logistics items when present.
• Universal Tech / Modpack Setup:
  • Fully compatible with standard NeoForge Transfer API (Capabilities.Item.BLOCK, Capabilities.Fluid.BLOCK, Capabilities.Energy.BLOCK).

💻 Administrative Commands

• /admin spawn_oil_pit [true|false]: Spawns a natural oil pit (false) or super-geyser (true) at your coordinates.
• /admin spawn_geyser: Instantly spawns a 1,000,000 mB erupting super-geyser.
• /admin oil_stats: Displays scanned chunks and registered oil wells.
• /admin reset_oil_retrogen: Resets retrogen history for the current save world. (Also mirrored under /refinery ...)

❓ Modpack Permissions & FAQ

• Can I include this in my public or private modpack?
  Yes! You are completely free to include Industrial Refinery in any CurseForge, Modrinth, or custom modpack.
• Is this safe to add to existing worlds?
  Yes. The world generation retrogen system automatically and safely places oil pits into newly loaded and explored chunks without corrupting existing structures, with spacing constraints to prevent clustering.
• Where can I report bugs or suggest features?
  Please report issues and feedback on our GitHub Issue Tracker!