About Immersive Engineering
From ModrinthRetrofuturism, industry and multiblocks!
About
Immersive Engineering is a tech mod with a certain charm, based on the ideas and concepts, and with most assets created by Damien Hazard.
Overall, it's about realism-inspired technology: Instead of glowing red tubes, it offers actual, hanging powerlines. Instead of one block that magically spits out dusts when ore is put in, it offers a crusher, a big multiblock (5x3x3) that features rotating wheels and spits out particles as it breaks the ore. Instead of a Laser that turns power into magical light and ores, it offers an Excavator, another massive, resource intensive, multiblock (3x7x8) which digs ores out of the ground with a big rotating bucketwheel.
IE is about making tech mods more balanced and more pretty, and adding its own twist by going for retro-futurism (think BioShock, Order 1886, SkyCaptain and the World of Tomorrow) rather than clinical white+grey future cubes.
It uses the Forge Energy API, known from just about every other tech mod, but it can be played fully standalone. Unlike other mods, IE does not use powertransfer via lanes of blocks, but instead via cables spanned between connectors.
The mod features Power Generation in forms of waterwheels, windmills, biodiesel and more and many of its machines are multiblocks!
For all your documentation needs, you should look into this mods ingame documentation, the Engineer's Manual, crafted with a book and a lever.
Discord:
Come to Hazard's Corner to chat about the mod and other projects!
Modpack policy:
Go wild, as long as you do not monetize content that doesn't belong to you and abide the EULA and respect our license =) And obviously, report your bugs on the issue tracker! :D
Porting this to another Modloader:
No, it's not happening. Immersive Engineering is deeply ingrained in the structures set out by Forge and continued by NeoForge. We're not porting to Fabric, Quilt or similar projects. The reasons for this are multiple, but most importantly: This is a hobby and we literally don't have time to learn a new API.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 9 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.1.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Immersive Engineering on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge, NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 12.4.2-194, released 2025-07-05
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 | 1.21.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Immersive Engineering.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.4.2-194 | 2025-07-05 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 12.4.1-193 | 2025-06-27 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 12.4.0-192 | 2025-06-24 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 12.3.3-191 | 2025-06-19 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 12.3.2-190 | 2025-06-15 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
Run Immersive Engineering on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogTechnology & automation
Machines, power, logistics and automation.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Immersive Engineering as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.1 and 8 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBluSunrize, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-CustomFree
