Age of Engineering Guide: Ages 10-12

This is a continuation from Age of Engineering Guide: Ages 7-9. It has been broken into multiple parts because of the limit on number of crafting grids per article.

Task 10.1: Immersive Engineering Arc Furnace
This step is not strictly necessary. The blast furnace from TechReborn can handle the processing of titanium and chrome, but bugs with the power system make it virtually unusable. The Arc furnace is extremely fast, and can produce steel from iron and coke dust far faster than even the improved blast furnace from IE, so even though it may seem like a lot of work, it is absolutely worth it.

First, before getting to the multiblocks, a warning about coal coke: You will need more coal coke than you have at any previous time in the pack. You will need 152 right away to make the electrodes for the arc furnace, in addition to all the coke you will need for making steel in age 11. You should probably have 2 coke ovens fully automated before you start working on the rest of this section.

Going on: You'll need to make 3 multiblocks:

Crusher:


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Industrial Squeezer:

Arc Furnace:


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Place 152 coal coke in the crusher, then put it in the squeezer. This should make 19 HOP graphite. Smelt them to ingots.

Also, make an engineer's worktable and the blueprint for graphite electrodes (this will use 7 of your HOP graphite ingots). Use the blueprint to make 3 graphite electrodes, and put them into the GUI for the arc furnace.

Lastly, put a chest next to the output on the back, and then pipe that either to a drawer with a void upgrade or to a trash can. This is for slag output. If you don't empty the slag, then eventually the arc furnace will stop working, and it usually takes time to figure out why, so just take care of it now while you are thinking of it.

Task 10.2: EU Production upgrades (optional)
TechReborn machines use EU only in this pack. If you have easy access to the output from your nuclear reactors, or have built the Advanced Generator syngas setup that I suggested before, then you probably don't need to do anything now. But, if you do, you may now want to consider the Sunnarium-based solar panels from IC2.

The largest one is the Quantum Solar Panel, and it only requires 64 of the lowest tier to make it. The main cost is the iridium, as it will take 11 stacks of iridium ore, but the output is 4096 EU/t during the day and 2048 EU/t at night and when raining.

Task 10.6: Machine Structure
This is the last thing you need to advance to the next age:

Task 11.x: Steel Casing
This is the last thing you need to advance to the next age: