Ore processing

Classic ores

Like in 1.12, iron, gold, copper, tin, lead and uranium ores drop the whole block when mined, and Fortune does nothing to them. Other ores (diamond, coal, lapis, redstone...) work as in vanilla.

The way to multiply them is processing them with IC2. The other way is the Extraction enchantment from the Infuser, which makes them drop like in vanilla and lets Fortune work.

Servers can turn this off with classicOreDrops = false (see Configuration).

The full chain

Step	Machine	Input	Output
1	Macerator	1 ore (or raw metal)	2 crushed ores
2	Ore Washing Plant	crushed ore + 1000 mB of water	purified crushed ore + 2 tiny piles + Stone Dust
3	Thermal Centrifuge	purified crushed ore (heated)	dust + byproduct
4	Furnace	crushed ore, purified ore or dust	1 ingot

The macerator alone doubles your output. The washing plant and centrifuge add byproducts: tiny piles (9 = one dust) of other metals, sulfur and silver.

Thermal centrifuge

It first heats up to the heat the recipe asks for (1 EU per heat point) and then processes. A redstone signal keeps it hot.

Input	Heat	Products
Purified Crushed Copper Ore	500	Copper Dust + Tiny Pile of Tin Dust
Purified Crushed Tin Ore	1000	Tin Dust + Tiny Pile of Iron Dust
Purified Crushed Iron Ore	1600	Iron Dust + Tiny Pile of Gold Dust
Purified Crushed Gold Ore	2000	Gold Dust + Tiny Pile of Silver Dust
Purified Crushed Lead Ore	2000	Lead Dust + Tiny Pile of Copper Dust
Purified Crushed Uranium Ore	3000	6 Uranium 238 + Tiny Pile of Uranium 235
Slag	1500	5 Coal Dust + Tiny Pile of Gold Dust

Silver does not generate in the world: it comes out of the centrifuge with gold.

Ancient debris

Fortune does not affect ancient debris either, so the IC2 chain is the multiplier:

1. Macerator: 1 ancient debris → 2 Crushed Netherite (twice the scrap a furnace gives).
2. Ore Washing Plant: → Purified Crushed Netherite + 2 Tiny Pile of Gold Dust.
3. Thermal Centrifuge at 3000 heat: → Netherite Dust + Tiny Pile of Gold Dust.

Any of the three smelts into one netherite scrap. The ingot is made as in vanilla.

Other processes

• Compressor: 9 plates → dense plate, and the coal-to-diamond chain (Coal Ball → Compressed Coal Ball → Coal Chunk → diamond).
• Extractor: resin → rubber, gunpowder → sulfur.
• Metal Former: rolling (ingot → plate → casings), cutting (plate → cables) and extruding (ingot → cables, casing → can).
• Induction Furnace: smelts two stacks at once and speeds up while working.
• Blast Furnace: iron + compressed air + heat → Steel Ingot and Slag.
• Recycler: any item → sometimes Scrap; 9 scrap = a Scrap Box with a random prize.