The Research Station may be crafted

The Research Station may be crafted in a normal vanilla workbench. For the precise recipe, see NEI or similar. Once crafted, it may be placed into the world like any other block. It has a single externally-accessible inventory – the slots labeled as ‘Input’. To begin researching, place your research book into the top-left slot (below the name) (research book is crafted in a normal crafting bench). Press the ‘Adjust Research Queue’ button to view the research-queue GUI, where you can add or remove goals from your research queue. Resources needed for your current goal (if any) will be shown in the slots labeled ‘Needed’. Place your resources into the slots labeled ‘Input’. Once all resources have been met, the resources will be used and the current goal will begin researching. Research progress will continue for as long as you have the GUI open, but will cease as soon as you close the GUI. You must be present at / have the GUI open on one of your research stations, or use a researcher NPC in order to make research progress. Once a particular goal has been completed, the goal at the head of the queue will be moved into the ‘active goal’ position. As long as the required resources are already present in the ‘Input’ boxes, the goal will start, and research will progress on the new goal. A research goal in the ‘active’ position may only be cancelled if it has not yet been started (go the research queue, and remove it from the queue).