Powah!

Powah generates, stores, and transfers Forge Energy (FE). Its Energizing Orb converts materials into components used to craft higher-tier generators, cables, storage, and charging equipment.

Getting startedCopy Anchor Link

1. Craft Dielectric Paste and the dielectric components required by the first machines.
2. Craft a Starter or Basic generator.
3. Connect the generator to Energy Cables.
4. Craft an Energizing Orb and at least one Energizing Rod.
5. Supply FE to the rod, then insert a recipe's ingredients into the orb.
6. Use the energized materials to craft higher-tier equipment.

Use JEI for the pack's exact ingredients, output quantities, and energizing costs. The Powah Manual provides additional in-game documentation.

Tiers and progressionCopy Anchor Link

Most Powah equipment follows this tier order:

Starter → Basic → Hardened → Blazing → Niotic → Spirited → Nitro

Higher tiers increase the relevant machine's generation, storage, transfer, or energizing capacity. Many machines have upgrade recipes that use the previous tier; check JEI before crafting another machine from scratch.

The orb itself does not need to be replaced at each tier. Energizing Rods, the FE supply, and transfer infrastructure determine how quickly it can process recipes.

Energizing Orb and Energizing RodsCopy Anchor Link

The Energizing Orb holds ingredients. Energizing Rods supply the energy required to convert those ingredients into the recipe output.

Power the rods, not the orb.

Generator → Energy Cable → Energizing Rod
                                  │
                            energy transfer
                                  ↓
                            Energizing Orb
                                  ↓
                            Recipe output

Building the first setupCopy Anchor Link

1. Place an Energizing Orb.
2. Place an Energizing Rod nearby and connect it to an FE supply.
3. Keep the rod within the orb's working range; place it close for the initial setup.
4. Insert exactly one recipe's ingredients into the orb.
5. Supply the required total energy.
6. Remove the finished output.

Multiple rods can serve an orb. Higher-tier rods and additional rods increase potential throughput, provided the generator and cables can supply enough FE.

Normal energizing materialsCopy Anchor Link

Use the individual JEI recipe for exact counts, accepted alternatives, and output quantities. Recipes can produce more than one item.

Custom bulk energizing recipesCopy Anchor Link

Brass, Bloom & Beyond provides block-based alternatives to the individual-material recipes.

Nitro has no custom bulk option. Use the normal Nitro energizing recipe.

These are Energizing Orb recipes, not ordinary crafting-grid conversions. The block ingredients go into the orb and require energy from the rods.

Generation optionsCopy Anchor Link

Powah provides five main generator families. Their output depends on tier, operating conditions, and pack configuration.

Use the machine interface, Manual, and relevant JEI information for actual output and accepted inputs. Fixed FE/t figures from another pack may not match this pack.

FurnatorCopy Anchor Link

Insert a supported furnace fuel and connect an energy output. A Furnator needs no liquid supply or multiblock structure.

Automating it requires item delivery and sufficient FE extraction capacity.

MagmatorCopy Anchor Link

Supply a supported hot fluid and extract the generated FE. Lava is the standard fuel example.

A Magmator consumes the fluid in its tank. Placing a lava source nearby is not a substitute for filling the machine.

Thermo GeneratorCopy Anchor Link

Place the Thermo Generator above an accepted heat source and supply coolant, such as water.

     Coolant supply
           │
           ↓
   [Thermo Generator] → FE output
   [  Heat source  ]

The heat source and coolant affect operation. Check accepted heat sources in the installed version rather than assuming every hot-looking block works.

This is different from a Magmator: a Thermo Generator uses a block or fluid beneath it as a heat source, while a Magmator consumes hot fluid from its internal tank.

Solar PanelCopy Anchor Link

Place the panel with sky access and connect its output.

Energy Cells can buffer production for periods when solar generation is unavailable. Storage only covers the energy already accumulated; it does not increase the panel's generation rate.

ReactorCopy Anchor Link

Powah's Reactor is a 3×4×3 multiblock assembled from 36 Reactor blocks of the same tier.

AssemblyCopy Anchor Link

1. Craft 36 matching Reactor blocks.
2. Hold the blocks and place one in an unobstructed 3×4×3 build area.
3. Allow the structure to assemble.
4. Open the controller interface.
5. Supply fuel, cooling, and optional supporting materials.
6. Connect the energy output.

Reactor inputsCopy Anchor Link

The interface shows the reactor's current resource levels and operating state. A supplied fuel slot alone does not establish that it is operating at its full potential.

Dry Ice is associated with the energizing system as well as reactor cooling. Look up its production recipe in JEI when automating coolant supply.

Reactor supply layoutCopy Anchor Link

Uraninite ───────────────┐
Carbon material ────────┤
Redstone ───────────────┼──→ Reactor → Energy Cell → Consumers
Liquid coolant ────────┤
Solid coolant ─────────┘

Treat these as separately managed supplies. An unrestricted mixed-item input can fill available space with one material while another resource runs out.

Energy storage and transferCopy Anchor Link

Energy CablesCopy Anchor Link

Energy Cables move FE between generators, storage, and consumers.

Cable transfer capacity can limit a system even when the generator and consumer support higher rates. Check the cable tier as well as the connected machines.

Energy CellsCopy Anchor Link

Energy Cells store FE for later use.

Generator → Energy Cell → Cable network → Machines

A buffer can sustain a short energizing operation at a rate above current generation, provided its stored energy and output rate are sufficient. It cannot sustain that deficit indefinitely.

Diagnose the limiting rateCopy Anchor Link

Energizing throughput can be limited by any stage:

Generation
    ↓
Storage output rate
    ↓
Cable transfer rate
    ↓
Energizing Rod transfer rate
    ↓
Recipe's total energy requirement

Upgrading rods has little effect if their energy buffers remain empty. Adding generation has little effect if an undersized connection prevents that energy reaching the rods.

Wireless energyCopy Anchor Link

Powah's Ender Network uses channels to share stored energy.

Basic layoutCopy Anchor Link

Generation → Ender Cell / channel storage
                         │
                    Ender Network
                         │
                         ↓
                    Ender Gate → Machine

Configure the appropriate channel and network access at the endpoints. An Ender Gate does not replace the channel's storage configuration or create energy.

If remote equipment receives no power, check channel selection, ownership/access, stored energy, gate orientation, and transf