Cogs of the Machine

Cogs of the Machine is a technology mod with a focus on Cogs, Alloys, Steam and Powered Tools.

Getting Started
To get started in Cogs of the Machine, the player will need wood for wooden tier Cogs, Clay for the Foundry, Copper and Zinc ores (Tungsten is never used in the mod).

The Pendulum block an early generator block that is a good starting point to understand using Wooden Cogs and to power Wooden Cogs connected to a Pounder.

To power the Pendulum, a Crank is required to start the Pendulum's cycle.

Once used the Pendulum will continue generating power forever even when stopped by Switch Cogwheels for power to not reach other Cogs, when the Switch Cogwheel is turned back on power will flow through it.

Power generated by the Pendulum is very low and isn't able to craft higher tier crafting recipes in the ServoTable.

Meaning unlike Solar Panels or other infinite power generation methods every bit doesn't count.

The Pounder is used for ore crushing, wool to string, wood log to planks, cobblestone to rocks (that are throw-able) and clay pounding recipes.

Pounding ores results in 1 to 3 crushed ore (Iron, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver and Tungsten).

Pounding Clay Blocks are needed for crafting Claystone used in the Foundry recipe.

The Foundry is used for creating alloys (Brass & Galvanized Iron) or converting Crushed Ore instead into an ingot or plate.

Ingots and Plates can be made from Ingots, Nuggets and Plates added by the mod.

There isn't much Ore Dictionary support for the mod so look for what ingots/plates from other mods can be made with the Foundry in a test world before using (Lead and Silver are not used in the mod but the mod does support other Lead & Silver ore for crushing).

Notable support includes Copper ingots from Industrial Craft 2, Forestry and Red Power 2 if they are installed (likely applies to 1.4.7 version).

More information can be found on via this archive.

Cogs
Cogs are the power cables of the mod for transferring power or used in a few common recipes.

There is 3 types of Cogs (Regular, Switch Cogwheel, Detector Cogwheel) and 4 different material types of Cogs (Wooden, Iron, Brass, Gold).

Cogs have 2 stats to keep in mind when being used to connect to blocks or when combined with the steam generator.

Making Brass and Galvanized Iron
A block called the Foundry is used to make both alloys. Brass is made with 3 Copper and 1 Zinc ingots in the left slot.

Galvanized Iron requires Zinc in the left slot, but a second slot (from the top above the fluid tank) is required to include Iron to create Galvanized Iron.

Steam
Steam is used to increase the speed of Cogs, the Steam generator can be made up of 3 blocks.

The Steam Generator, Pressure Tank and Steam Motor.

The Generator needs coal and water to create steam that will be output from the top, the Pressure Tank will store the steam when placed above the Steam Generator, the Steam can either be passed through to a Steam Motor on top of the block or moved by hand with the Steam Container, which a battery like item (an item with durability based on how much is stored inside).

The Steam Motor is an output block used to increase the Cogs speed more than the Pendulum can generate.

Cogs 'must' be placed on a specific side of the block similar to the Pendulum for the Cogs to accept the power from the Steam multiblock.

There is also Pipes that can be used to send Steam between Pressure Tanks or to other Steam blocks.