Every tech mod in ATM11 runs on FE, and Powah is the friendliest way to make lots of it. No multiblock spreadsheets, no void miner math — generators you place, cables you connect, done.
the tier ladder
Powah machines come in tiers driven by its crystals: Energized → Blazing → Niotic → Spirited → Nitro. Each tier is a big jump in throughput. Crystals grow from materials in the pack (blaze, diamond-adjacent, ender-adjacent, and nitro from uraninite-family inputs) — check JEI for the exact recipe on your version.
your first three generators
- Furnator — burns furnace fuel for FE. Two of these on a coal chest is a real early-game grid.
- Thermo Generator — passive FE from heat: park it over magma or a heated block, forget it exists, keep getting power.
- Solar Panel — silent daytime income; pairs well with an Energy Cell as the battery.
the reactor is the mid-game answer
The Uraninite Reactor is where Powah stops being cute: fed with uraninite (mine it or buy it in the VYPR /shop), it produces serious FE, and higher-tier reactor blocks scale it further. One well-fed reactor with an Energy Cell buffer will carry a whole mid-game base — machines, Mystical Agriculture accelerators, storage systems, all of it.
moving the power
Use Powah cables or any pipe mod’s energy conduits — they interoperate. Put an Energy Cell between generation and consumption as a buffer, and add a Player Aerial Pearl later to charge your gear wirelessly. When machines start browning out, you do not need cleverness: add another reactor. Powah scales by copy-paste, which is exactly its charm.