What is Enthalpy
Machines, engines and fish that feed each other: the whole mod in two minutes.
Enthalpy is a tech mod about loops. Engines make power, machines turn raw materials into more and better materials, and fish, of all things, turn into iron, redstone, diamonds and fuel. Almost everything you build feeds something else you build.
The loop#
PowerEngines burn coal, lava, steam or fuels you make into FE.
MachinesGrind, saw, smelt and alloy: more ingots from every ore.
Water and cropsEndless water, and farmland that waters and lights itself.
FishBreed new species, then farm them: fish and crops feed each other.
ResourcesBred fish yield iron, redstone, emeralds and many more.
FuelFish, seeds and crops press and distil into oils that power the best engine.
…and that fuel goes back into the engines that started it.
A side branch: salt and crystals#
Boil water into salt, melt it, and grow crystals from it. Crystals give the mod's two weapons an element: the Haddock Howitzer, which fires fish, and the Kingfish Katana, a sword that grows with your machines.
What makes it different#
- Fish are a resource engine. A pair of the right fish in an
Ecotone yields a material as it breeds, and each new line is a mutation to
chase in the
Spawning Basin: dozens of species,
from Ferric Cod to the Diamond Ray. - Machines show their work. Every screen says what the machine is doing and, when it stops, why. Hover anything for help.
- Made for packs. Recipes take any mod's metals by their common tags, outputs prefer the items your pack already has, and content for other mods appears only when they're installed.
Where to go next#
- Basics for this mod: the few ideas every page assumes.
- Your first hour: power, a grinder, and double the iron.
- Progression: what to build, in what order.