Ultra Machines

Most machine plugins are a block with a menu.
Ultra Machines is a living industry: 35 big, animated machines that stand in your world and do the job right in front of you.

A crane bores a shaft down to bedrock. An excavator bites into the ground and swings the bucket. A helicopter flies out to your machines and brings their goods home in a net. Pickers climb the ladders of an orchard, divers go down the kelp lines, skeletons walk out of their tombs at dusk.

Your players stop to watch it, show it to their friends and come back to see what it made. And it keeps working while they are away. No resource pack, no mods: every part is built in the game.

TRY IT LIVE: 5.183.170.8:25569

👉 Join the test server, walk up to every machine and watch it work before you buy.

• 8 mines
• 5 for oil and energy
• 4 industries

• 5 for fields and forests
• 3 on the water
• 5 farms
• 4 after dark
• 1 heliport

Every picture and GIF on this page is a real capture from the game, taken in an ordinary world with our Ultra Shaders pack. Without shaders your players see the same machines and the same animations in plain Minecraft light. The sites were graded and planted for the pictures, and the big picture stands the machines closer together than a normal base would; the plugin brings the machines. The GIFs run at the speed of the game, only the helicopter's round is cut short.

Why your server needs it

• 01
  Something to look at.Belts run, cranes swing, wheels turn, little workers do the job. Every machine is a show of its own, and no two are alike.
• 02
  Something to work towards.Four tiers from Copper to Netherite, and the machine grows with every upgrade. Seven modules to fit. A whole shop of machines to collect.
• 03
  Something that pays off.The engines keep working with nobody near, and pay back the time the server was down. Put a chest against a machine and the goods flow straight in.
• 04
  Something that is theirs.Private by default: only the owner opens a machine, plus the friends they let in. Friends can fuel it and take the goods, the machine itself stays the owner's.

• 01
  Drill:bores a shaft straight down, as wide as its tier, from a crane that travels over the pit. Keeps the ores and throws the junk away.
• 02
  Excavator:digs a wide pit in front of itself, bucket after bucket, and loads the spoil into its skip.
• 03
  Colliery:winds coal up out of the seam under it, a tub a wind, with a diamond now and then.
• 04
  Diamond Mine:sinks an open pit into a pipe of blue ground. The bucket wheel bites the wall and the sorter picks the diamonds off the grease table.
• 05
  Emerald Mine:drives an adit into a knoll of mountain rock. The loco brings the ore out and the stamps crush it under the water wheel.
• 06
  Gold Works:opens a gate to the Nether over a moat of lava, drops the piglins that come through into its pit and pours their gold.
• 07
  Quartz Quarry:a robot arm cuts the crystals out of a geode with its laser, and they grow back where they were cut.
• 08
  Cobble Works:brings lava and water together in a basin and breaks the cobblestone loose, block after block. Or switch to an obsidian run.

See every feature →

• 01
  Offshore Platform:drills the oil under the sea bed, on a jacket of steel legs down to the bottom, with the gas flare burning off its boom.
• 02
  Pumpjack:nods over an oil field and fills flasks of crude oil, the fuel of every machine. Hold one and it tells you what lies under your feet.
• 03
  Oil Refinery:distils crude oil into diesel, a fuel that burns four times as long.
• 04
  Wind Turbine:charges batteries from the wind. The higher and the more open, the more it charges, and storms help.
• 05
  Solar Farm:turns its trackers after the sun and charges batteries, a fuel that needs no oil field.

• 01
  Foundry:smelts whatever a furnace would, stacks at a time and ten times as fast.
• 02
  Brickworks:fires clay into bricks and terracotta in its tunnel kiln.
• 03
  Golem Works:keeps a village of villagers who call up iron golems, and presses them to ingots.
• 04
  Soul Distillery:lets souls through its gates, draws them up a spire of glass and bottles the experience they leave. Or banks it raw for you.

• 01
  Combine:reaps the field in front of it, strip by strip, and sows it again.
• 02
  Logger:fells the trees around it with its crane, keeps the logs, and its forester plants the next tree.
• 03
  Apple Orchard:sends its pickers up the ladders and crates the apples by the shed.
• 04
  Cane Plantation:grows its own sugar cane under glass and cuts it, with nothing put in.
• 05
  Cactus Ranch:does the same with cactus on sand inside its walls.

• 01
  Fishery:hauls its net out of the water with a crane on a pontoon: fish, junk and treasure, rolled the way the game rolls a fishing line.
• 02
  Clay Dredge:moors a barge at its jetty and digs clay out of the bed with a bucket ladder.
• 03
  Kelp Farm:floats out on the open water, and its divers bring the kelp up off the lines.

• 01
  Apiary:keeps hives in a meadow of flowers and bottles their honey in the honey house.
• 02
  Egg Farm:a flock of hens lays in its henhouse, with nothing put in.
• 03
  Wool Farm:keeps sheep in its pasture and shears them in the shed, wool of every colour.
• 04
  Cattle Ranch:keeps a herd in its paddock and tans their hides into leather in the barn, a side of beef now and then.
• 05
  Spider Silk Farm:spiders weave their webs thread by thread, and the silk is wound off and spun at the great wheel.

• 01
  Creeper Farm:draws creepers into its dark tower and grinds them to gunpowder. In a thunderstorm they come charged.
• 02
  Ender Grove:draws endermen onto its plaza and takes a pearl off each one its ring snares.
• 03
  Slime Bog:breeds slimes in a pool of ooze and squeezes them under a press, by the moon.
• 04
  Bone Crypt:raises its skeletons from their tombs and walks them into the bone mill.

• 01
  Cargo Heliport:the one machine that serves all the others. The helicopter flies a round to every machine of yours in range, lifts their goods in its net and brings them home. Night flights and landing lights are your call.

✨ Only three machines need anything fed in: the Foundry takes ore, the Brickworks takes clay, the Refinery takes crude oil, each from its own hopper or from the chests beside it. Every other machine turns fuel alone into its goods, works the world around it, or makes the fuel itself.

Fuel that means something

Every job a machine does costs energy, so fuel is the heart of your server's new economy.

• 01
  Crude oilcomes from pumpjacks set over oil fields and from platforms out at sea. The world is cut into oil cells, always in the same places for the same seed, and a reserve runs down as it is pumped and creeps back over time.
• 02
  Batteriescome from the wind and the sun.
• 03
  Dieselcomes from the refinery and burns four times as long as crude.

How it plays

• 01
  Buya Copper machine in the shop (/machines shop) and set it down with a right-click. Water machines turn to face the water on their own.
• 02
  Fuelit with crude oil, a battery or diesel. The pumpjack, the platform, the turbine and the solar farm need none.
• 03
  Collectfrom its storage, or put a chest against it and let the goods flow. Or set down a Cargo Heliport and let the helicopter do the rounds.
• 04
  Upgradeon the spot from its own menu, Copper to Iron to Diamond to Netherite, with money and blocks. More pace, more storage, more slots and a bigger machine.
• 05
  Fit modulesthat matter on that machine: Fortune, Silk Touch, Auto-smelt, Void filter, Backfill, Efficiency, Overclock.
• 06
  Flip the switcheseach machine has of its own: the orchard's hive, the crypt's bell, the quarry's magma heat. Each one a real trade-off between pace, energy and goods.

Made for server owners

• 01
  Drop in and play.Paper 26.3, Java 25. No resource pack, no database, no hard dependencies. Vault is optional, for prices.
• 02
  Light on the server.Display entities only, no armor stands. A machine's body stands only while a player is near, and comes up a few at a time when somebody lands in a big base. The engine keeps working either way.
• 03
  Safe with your claims.WorldGuard, GriefPrevention, Towny, Lands, PlotSquared, BentoBox, SuperiorSkyblock2, HuskClaims and Residence are asked through their own API. Nobody sets a machine down on ground they could not build on, and a machine leaves the chests of other people alone.
• 04
  Yours to tune.Every tier's pace, energy, storage, upgrade cost and blocks in machines.yml, every price and shelf of the shop in config.yml, every chat message in messages.yml, all reloaded live. Updates keep your values.
• 05
  Your own drops.Change what any machine makes from the admin menu in game, no file editing: vanilla items or custom ones from ItemsAdder, Oraxen and Nexo.
• 06
  Under control.Machine caps per rank, and admin tools to give, inspect, open, teleport to, switch and remove any machine.

Fits any kind of server

You do not have to run all of them. Every machine has its own switch in the admin menu: switch a kind off and it leaves the shop, nobody can place it, and the ones already standing pause until it is back.

• 01
  Survival and SMP:the farms, the orchard, the forest, the fishery and the mines, a whole economy of goods to trade.
• 02
  Skyblock and islands:the fuel-only machines that need nothing from the world, from farms to mob farms.
• 03
  Prison and mining:the drill, the excavator, the colliery, the gem mines, the cobble works and the foundry.
• 04
  Tech and factions:the whole oil chain, turbines, solar and the heliport.
• 05
  RPG and themed worlds:the crypt, the grove, the bog, the soul distillery and the gold works, each a landmark of its own.

More machines are on the way

35 is not the end. Every machine stands on the same framework, so new machines keep arriving through updates, and every buyer gets every one of them. 💡 Got an idea for a machine? Tell us on Discord or in the discussion thread: the best ones get built.

Try it live before you buy

Test server: 5.183.170.8:25569

Walk up to the machines, open their menus and watch them work.