The Distillation Column (Middle) is the middle section of the three-block distillation tower — Ala Industrial's first multiblock and the place where crude oil enters the machine. The section is never crafted on its own: the tower's single craftable segment item is built from two Machine Casings, one Electronic Circuit, two Copper Plates, two Iron Plates, and three iron ingots. Stack three segments vertically and the tower assembles itself — the bottom becomes the powered base, and the upper two turn into the middle and top sections. The middle segment holds a 10 000 mB oil tank that accepts any oil carrying the c:oil tag through the black nozzles on its sides; neighbours can insert oil but never extract it.

The Distillation Column (Middle) carries no energy port — an LV cable connects only to the base, so routing power to the middle does nothing. Click any segment of the assembled tower to open the shared interface, where the oil gauge and its container pair sit on the left. Breaking any segment degrades the whole tower: the broken block drops as a segment item, the remaining segments revert to inert blanks in place, and the base keeps its fluids and fouling, so nothing is lost or duplicated. A pickaxe is required to harvest the section, which has hardness 3.0 and blast resistance 6.0. The segment works identically on Fabric and NeoForge for Minecraft 26.2 (Java Edition).