Tin Plate
Tin Plate is an early-game crafting component stamped from a tin ingot in the Compressor or with a Forge Hammer.
Description
The Tin Plate is tin's first mass-consumed part. Five Tin Plates together with a glass pane craft eight Empty Cans, and six Tin Plates go into a Canning Machine alongside a piston, a machine casing, and an electronic circuit. Because tin is the mod's earliest and most common metal, Tin Plates are cheap to stamp in volume early on, then they give way to iron and copper plates as you move toward mid-tier machinery. Tin Plate is a crafting item rather than a block you can place, and the mod runs on Java Edition 26.2 only.
Block properties
| Item ID |
alaindustrial:tin_plate
|
|---|---|
| /give command |
/give @p alaindustrial:tin_plate
|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Renewable | No |
| Java Edition | Java Edition 26.2 |
Java Edition Guide
How to make a Tin Plate in Ala Industrial
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1
Smelt a tin ingot
Mine tin ore underground with a stone pickaxe or better, then smelt the raw tin drop in a furnace to get the tin ingot that every Tin Plate starts from.
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2
Stamp it in the Compressor
Feed the tin ingot into a Compressor powered at 2 EU/t. After 130 ticks (260 EU total) the machine outputs one Tin Plate — the main route once you have LV power.
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3
Or hammer it by hand
With no power yet, put a Forge Hammer and a tin ingot in a crafting grid. The hammer stays in the grid and loses 1 of its 128 durability, giving you one Tin Plate per ingot.
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4
Spend the plates
Use five Tin Plates and a glass pane to craft eight Empty Cans, or combine six Tin Plates with a piston, a machine casing and an electronic circuit to build a Canning Machine.
Tin Plate is a crafting item, not a block you can place in the world. Ala Industrial is a Java Edition 26.2 mod and is not available on Bedrock.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you craft a Tin Plate?
Feed a tin ingot into a Compressor, which runs at 2 EU/t for 130 ticks (260 EU total), or combine a Forge Hammer with a tin ingot in a crafting grid. Both routes yield one Tin Plate per ingot.
Is the Tin Plate a block you can place?
No. Tin Plate is a crafting component item, not a placeable block, so it lives in your inventory and goes into other recipes.
How much energy does the Compressor use per Tin Plate?
Exactly 260 EU. The Compressor is an LV-tier machine that runs at 2 EU/t for 130 ticks per operation, well under the 32 EU/t LV ceiling.
What is the Tin Plate used for?
Its main uses are Empty Cans — five Tin Plates plus a glass pane make eight cans — and the Canning Machine, which takes six Tin Plates with a piston, a machine casing and an electronic circuit.
Is the Tin Plate renewable?
No. Tin is a finite, world-generated ore with no renewable source in the mod, so your supply of Tin Plates is limited to the tin you mine.
Does the Forge Hammer get consumed when making plates?
No. The Forge Hammer stays in the crafting grid as a tool and loses 1 durability per plate, so one hammer forges about 128 Tin Plates before it breaks.
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