Description
This mod restructures the metallurgical progress of the game as well as the way charcoal is made. It also adds farming additions such as fruit trees, crops, foods and alcohol brewing. Those features were inspired by Terrafirmacraft.
Time to mine
Stone Tools have been replaced with Flint, which can be found in rivers or caves. Copper Tools are also available and have marginally better stats than Flint. As for Wood Tools, only the shovel and hoe can be crafted, but a Bone Pickaxe can serve as an equivalent in a pinch. A Wood Club and Flint Javelins complete the primitive tool set.
Charcoal Pits and Coke Ovens
By placing either Log Piles in the world, completely covering them with solid blocks and lighting them on fire, Charcoal can be made. A working Pit will emit smoke particles from the top. After about a day it will finish and the products can be dug out. Since Iron is only available later in the progression, Flint and Steel can be made with raw iron for 6 uses, while making it out of real steel gives the full 375 uses.
Once refractory bricks have been acquired for making steel, a Coke Oven multiblock can be made, which can upgrade Coal to Coke and collect Creosote Oil in the process. It can also make Charcoal.
Alloys
Tin Gravel Ore can be found in rivers and shallow seas. Via an alloying mold it can be used to make bronze which is equivalent to Iron. Tin Gravel Ore also drops Flint more often then regular Gravel.
Bloomery
Smelting Iron in a normal furnace is no longer possible. Instead you will need a Bloomery and Bellows, as well as a kind of coal. Pump the bellows to get keep the Bloomery hot enough and Iron will accumulate in a Bloom. You will then need to place the Bloom in the world and work it with a pickaxe to obtain Iron. Larger blooms need to be worked more.
Man of Steel
The bloomery isnt very efficient so Steel is the next step. You need 2 things to make steel: Metallurgic Flux made from grinding calcareous rocks like Dripstone, Calcite, Limestone or Marble, and High Refractory Bricks for the furnace itself, which require Magma Cream. By this time you should upgrade your Bellows to mechanical ones too. The blast Furnace can smelt Iron at full efficiency then upgrade it into Steel.
Steel tools have 2x durability +1 attack +1 speed +1 toughness but -50% enchantability. It can instamine stone just like diamond tools.
Steel can also be used to craft a musket, which can one shot common enemies with decent accuracy but needs to be reloaded via the crafting grid.
Basalt & Marble
A popular pair or rocks since the days of Red Power, They used to be part of Quark but got removed for some reason just because vanilla had similarly named blocks. The devs were fine with someone reusing them so here they are. Basalt can be found in deep oceans and replaces nether basalt in geodes. Marble can be found in the deepslate layer like tuff.
Ceramic Pots
Ceramic pots are portable 9 slot inventories that can be placed as blocks or filled in the inventory like bundles. They can be dyed any of the 16 colors.
Fruit Trees
Saplings for various fruit trees can be found in structures. In addition there are Douglas Fir trees that naturally spawn only in Windswept Forests. Of note is Jaded Amaranth, an ancient tree found by the Sniffer. It can be use to brew potions that grant absorption and health boost
Alchemy Kit
The Distillery and Steam Press, together with the Barrel can be used to brew and press various items, enabling production of Alcohol, Potato Fries or BioDiesel. Alcohol can give a set of random effects, but dont drink too much at once. Warranty void if drinking everclear. The Barrel can also be used on an infinite water source to fill and it can transfer fluids in the inventory like the bundle.
Fuels
The Jerry Can can be used to fuel solid fueled machines with liquid fuels. It holds 4 buckets and drains in 100mB increments, being less wasteful than bucketing fluids directly
Animal Tools
The nesting box acts as a place for chickens to lay their eggs. It has an area of 9x9 and the chickens must be able to reach the box to lay in it. Free range chickens are more lag friendly than ones crammed in 1 block above a hopper like classic chicken cookers.
The feeding through can feed nearby animals so they can breed without player input, but is less efficient than feeding by hand. Animals must be able to reach it to eat from it and there cant be more than 16 animals in its 9x9 area, per feed type.
The Soul Drinker
Using a piece of the wardens hearth, this sword can be crafted. It absorbs the souls of slain foes to grow stronger. It starts at 6 damage, increasing with the cube root of the slain, starting at 64. There is no limit to the amount of damage it can gain.