Short description
From the Ground Up adds research into Minecraft. All vanilla items are tied to a technology and you can only craft those items when you have successfully researched that technology. You do this by experimenting with items until you get the desired result. The research is in the form of puzzles, inspired by the research in Thaumcraft. The mod also includes a nifty research book to see what you've learned and to look at what you can research next. The GUI of this book is greatly inspired by the Achievement GUI.
Thanks to Thaumatarge for the artwork and extra ideas!
If you found any bugs or problems, please report them in the GitHub repository. Experimental versions can be found here.
You're able to add custom technologies yourself! More info can be found in the Github Wiki.
FTGU is free to use in any modpack if you link to this page in some way
Recipes and info
Recipes:
Parchment:
Idea Table:
Research Table:
Research Book:
Magnifying Glass:
More in-depth look at the blocks and items:
Parchment
Parchment is used in crafting recipes and researching. There are three types of parchment:
- Blank parchment, which is only used in crafting recipes
- Idea parchment, which is used in researching
- Research parchment, which is the final product of researching
When you right-click research parchment, you research the technology and it changes back to a blank parchment.
Idea Table
The Idea Table is the first table used in researching. The Idea Table requires one feather and some parchment to function. You can insert up to three items and if you made the correct combination, you get an Idea Parchment.
Research Table
The Research Table is the last table needed to research technologies. It requires a feather and an Idea Parchment to run. The Research Table supports multiple types of puzzles: the match puzzle and the connecting puzzle.
In the match puzzle, you need to insert the correct items to finalise your research. The Research Table does help you with the items. It gives you vague hints in the slots that need to be filled with a specific item. Sometimes multiple items are valid for a given slot.
In the connecting puzzle, you see an item to the left and an item to the right. You need to connect them with 3 items in between. Items connect if one item is used to make the other.
Research Book
When you open your Research Book, which you get when you join a new world, you see all the technologies which you have researched and which you are able to research. When you click on a technology that you have researched in this book, it shows you a list of items and blocks which the technology allows you to craft. When hovering over the icon of one of these items, you can see the recipe(s) of that item.
Magnifying Glass
The magnifying glass allows you to scan blocks. If you successfully do so, a hint in a match puzzle will become clearer. You do need to place the magnifying glass in the Research Table.
Will this mod work for all modded crafting recipes or it only work with normal crafting table recipes ?
In reply to pkyd:
All recipes, including modded.
can we get an example layout of how to use the JSON system? I'm quite stuck and have read the Wiki numerous times.
In reply to xorbah:
In reply to xorbah:
You can look on here: https://github.com/Astavie/From-the-Ground-Up/tree/1.12/src/main/resources/assets/ftgumod/technologies
This is the tech tree the mod uses. It may help you.
This is an excellent concept. Just dropping by to say thank you and fantastic job!
Hey my dude new problem
Cant find what to put in the Research Table for the stonemasonry
Pls Halp
What's up with the carpentery research thing ??
Pls help astavie i can't proceed
In reply to maximewth64949:
Is global research config planned, as opposed to the per-world settings?
In reply to Death25565:
I wonder how many people stared at the table for about 20 minutes before thinking, ink and paper isn't working, let's try crafting ingredients. Cause I'm gonna be really embarrassed if it's just me.
Can you make researches into the loot chests?
Is it possible to have tools made with different materials from Tinker's Construct within different research tiers? Not sure how to do this as Tinkers uses NBT to differentiate material types for its tools.
If I wanted to use this in a private custom modpack how would I go about distributing the json files? Asking users to unpack a separate zip into their save after creating it is cumbersome. I seem to recall a mod somewhere that automatically does this with custom advancements when a new world is generated. Does anyone recall that mod? I can no longer find it.
In reply to Draxis:
Using the new JSON method can we remove your default recipes?
Edit: I figured out there was a config file for it thanks!
(Also for the record I am building an entire modpack around research so more documentation on the JSON and overall code would be amazing)
Hi,how can i get this achievment in the research book
"Survival"-you should know this if you want to survive
???
Help please.
In reply to Astavie:
I made a reply to this issue.
https://github.com/Astavie/From-the-Ground-Up/issues/35#issuecomment-342229647
While I love the idea behind this mod... I got stuck trying to figure out how to get past the refinement idea. I finally got the research parchment from coal and iron ore but could not figure out what was wanted for the next step. The hints were insulator, fuel, and smeltable, so after trying cobblestone, coal and iron ore... nothing. Following that was about 30 minutes of frustration trying to figure out what could be what. I never did figure it out what was wanted and gave up (and deleted the mod) because I didn't even know which part was incorrect. Maybe make it so that when the player gets an item correct they get a little green check mark in the bottom right of that slot or something. At least a way to know that they are on the right or wrong track.
Edited: looked at the files on github and apparently I was on the right track but something was bugged and it did not reward me with my research. My idea still stands, not everyone is going to be on the right mental wavelength to guess what is what, and it would be nice to know when you are in the right area or out in left field.