Getting Started

Draw a blueprint

Siegeworks machines begin as Axiomata blueprints. Use a drawing table to select a machine, trace its outline and take the completed blueprint.

The full drawing-table workflow is covered in the Axiomata Blueprint Construction guide. JEI or another recipe viewer displays the recipes for the drawing table, ink, hammer and Siegeworks materials.

Build the machine

1. Hold the blueprint and a construction hammer.
2. Use either item on a clear piece of ground and confirm the placement.
3. Bring the material displayed for the highlighted section.
4. Right-click that section with the construction hammer until it is complete.
5. Repeat for every section of the machine.

The preview marks the construction volume. The machine becomes operable when its final section is complete. See Construction and Maintenance for cancellation, repair and dismantling.

Operate it

Most mobile machines are mounted with an empty-hand right-click and driven with the movement controls. Artillery must be loaded in the order shown by the action bar; a loading action takes time and is cancelled if you walk away or change the held item.

Controls differ once the machine is ready. Bolt throwers fire with the jump key, field guns fire while being primed, and stone throwers fire when used after winding. The individual machine pages list the exact sequence.

See Operating Siege Engines for movement, aiming, towing and the controls shared by multiple machines.