Machine Casing

alaindustrial:machine_casing

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Summary

The Machine Casing is the base block that machines are built from. It is forged from 8 iron plates (a ring on the crafting grid) and then becomes the body of an LV machine: a machine recipe is the casing plus its defining part. This builds a clear chain: ingot → plate → casing → machine.

On its own it holds no energy and interacts with nothing — it is an intermediate part and, at the same time, a rugged building block (the "grid plating" look).

Mini-example: want a Macerator? First hammer 8 iron plates (or press them in a Compressor), craft a casing from them, then casing + flint + electronic circuit — and the Macerator is done.

Block properties

An ordinary solid block with a metal feel. Broken by any pickaxe.

Field	Value
Tool	any pickaxe
Drop	itself

Recipes

8 iron plates → 1 casing (crafting grid, ring PPP / P·P / PPP, P = ).
No reverse recipe — the casing is a part, not a storage form.

Where it is used: the base of LV machines. The Macerator, Extractor, Compressor, Polymerizer and Incubator are all built on the casing (casing + defining part + electronic circuit). Generators are not tied to the casing — they are the entry point into power.

Progression

A Phase 3 intermediate: gives the iron plate its main sink and tidies up machine crafting.
Machines already placed in the world keep working; only the crafting recipe of new ones changed.

Material forms — the plates the casing is built from.
Forge Hammer — the hand way to make plates before electricity.
Macerator · Extractor · Compressor · Polymerizer · Incubator — the machines built on the casing.