Faktocraft

Faktocraft is a modern port of several classic tech mods - IndustrialCraft 2, BuildCraft and Logistics Pipes - rebuilt as a single, coherent mod: electrical machines, tiered power grids, item and fluid logistics, and automated mining.

⚠️ Faktocraft is in its first alpha version. Bugs may occur - please report them!

💡 Playing with JEI and Jade is highly recommended: JEI shows every machine recipe in-game, and Jade shows live machine info (energy, progress, tier) when you look at a block. Faktocraft integrates with both.

Wiki

The official wiki is available at pedrocmota.github.io/faktocraft-forge (English and Portuguese). It is still under development, so some pages may change.

Getting started

Tap rubber trees with a treetap, cook the resin into rubber and build your first cables and generator. From there the tech tree climbs from simple ore-doubling setups to fully automated factories.

Power system

• Five voltage tiers, from Low to Ultra. Every cable and machine has a tier: a machine fed a higher tier than it accepts explodes, so plan your grid!
• Transformers step power up and down between tiers; circuit breakers (with an animated handle) let you flip whole sections of the network on and off
• Machines have a battery dock - insert a capacitor to give them an internal energy buffer, or charge portable batteries in dedicated slots
• Battery boxes for every tier store surplus energy and feed it back when generation drops
• Generators: solar (4 tiers, day/night aware), wind (height matters), geothermal (runs on lava), combustion (fuel and biogas)

Machines

Over 20 electrical machines covering ore processing (crusher, ore washing plant, thermal centrifuge), metalwork (alloy smelter, metal former, extruder, rolling), manufacturing (circuit assembler, canning machine, polymerizer, fermenter, distillery) and endgame matter replication (scan an item, fabricate UU-matter and replicate it). Upgrades change how machines run: overclockers trade energy for speed, efficiency upgrades cut energy use, and tension upgrades let a machine accept a higher voltage tier.

Logistics

• Transparent item pipes - watch your items travel through the network. Stone pipes are the backbone; gold pipes speed items up
• A chassis + module system inspired by Logistics Pipes: dock a chassis against an inventory and fit it with modules - sink (accepts items), provider (offers stock), extractor, supplier (keeps a target amount stocked), collector, ejector and disposal. RimWorld-style item filters decide what each module handles
• Request Table: ask the network for an item and it finds the ingredients and drives your machines to craft it, including multi-step chains
• Crafting and recipe pipes teach the network what each machine produces
• Full fluid layer: pumps, tanks, fluid pipes and fluid cells

Automated mining

A BuildCraft-style quarry: place three landmarks in an L shape to mark the area, put the quarry next to one of them, give it High-tier power and watch the frame build itself while the drill digs down layer by layer. It stores what it mines in an internal inventory (pull it out with pipes), accepts overclocker and efficiency upgrades, and never breaks spawners, structures or fluids.

Gear

Jetpacks (including an elytra hybrid mode), nano and quantum armor, electric tools, a prospector for ore scanning, and a teleport anchor network.

World

Rubber trees, plus new ores: tin, lead, silver, lithium, sulfur, iridium and underground oil pockets.

Versions

• Minecraft 1.20.1 with Forge is the only supported version. The mod will move to newer versions once Minecraft stabilizes its Vulkan support.
• A Fabric port is unlikely - the mod is deeply tied to Forge internals.

Translations

Available in 11 languages besides English (Portuguese BR/PT, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese). Translations were AI-generated and may contain errors - corrections are welcome.

Bugs and feedback

Bug reports go to the GitHub issue tracker.