Materia is a comprehensive rework of Minecraft progression that pushes the game toward real-world-inspired technology and production chains. Instead of jumping quickly to a vanilla crafting table and furnace-driven metalwork, you start with stone-age scavenging and fabrication (rocks, knapping, hewing, lashings), then build up stations that unlock increasingly capable crafting and processing.

 

- flint knapping

- some realistic chemistry

- heating and working metal on an anvil

- string/wool/linen rework

- 8 new colors

- music instruments (that can sync up between players)

- cannons and other fun explosives

- redstone logic blocks (adders, T-flops, logic gates, etc)

- beer and wine

- throwable spears pre 1.21 (I got mine working like a week before Mojang announced theirs)

A core theme is that crafting is station- and tool-driven: early recipes run through a primitive crafting table, and later manufacturing relies on kilns (with upgrades like chimneys/bellows and higher-temperature variants), anvils (stone → bronze → iron tiers with more tool slots/inputs), and handling constraints like hot metals that must be manipulated with tongs. This creates a more granular loop where materials must be processed, heated, shaped, and assembled through multiple steps rather than condensed into a single vanilla recipe.

Alongside the main tech ladder, the mod adds a lot of “civilization” systems that interlock with progression: ceramics and liquids (crucibles, water pots, amphorae and fermentation), textiles and storage (sewn sacks/baskets, wool-to-string workflows), expanded dye chemistry/colors, and a broad set of mechanical content (from early survival tools to things like logic blocks, power components, and even cannons/explosives). The documentation in `documentation/` is organized by content type (blocks/items/recipes/mechanics) with heavy cross-linking, and describes the intended “eras” (stone/bronze/iron/steel) and the stations/mechanics that gate each.

 

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Suggested Integrations

• Primitive Technology: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
• Stefan Milo: https://www.youtube.com/stefanmilo

Possible future additions

• Glazed terracotta for the new colors
• Doors/trapdoors for the new wood types
• Phantom membrane + boat ==> airiot?
• More automation/farming/mass production options
• More electronics??
• Catapults and ballistas??

Upcoming mods

• Populi - NPC behavior augmentation
• Untitled realistic Earth map generation mod
  • Uses ArcGIS data
  • Biome- and region-specific vegetation spawning
  • Materia integration

Possible future mods

• Materia 2/Machina - Chemistry, machines and tech
• Spiritus - Magic and sorcery

Changelog

1.2.0 - FLORA UPDATE:

• New trees (baobab, maple, cypress, cedar, fig, eucalyptus, palm)
• New crops (cotton, rice, tea, taro)
• New flowers (lotus, hibiscus, purple coneflower, white lily, bluebonnet, fuchsia, marigold)
• New decorative plants (yucca, plantain, esparto, agave, reeds)
• New colors (teal, burgundy, tan)
• New mechanic (tile/thatch laying)
• Sloped roof blocks (thatch and tile)
• Minor texture/color adjustments

1.1.1 - Minor update - fixed some compatibility issues, smoothed out crafting flow a bit

1.1.0 - BIG UPDATE: Mod cross-compatibility improvements, JEI improvements, recipe adjustments and balancing, advancements, and smelting progression gating fixes

1.0.7 - Fixed some JEI recipe helpers, added data pack options for vanilla overrides, fixed thatch stairs not connecting correctly when upside-down, fixed cannonball pile drops

1.0.6 - Some bug fixes and missing display names

1.0.5 - Fixed some issues related to server/client UI disagreement, fixed cannon barrel rendering, fixed infinite vine exploit

1.04 - Fixed a crash in 1.20 (deferred registry issue). Added cheese, sausage, and animal gut/cord for bowstrings.

1.03 - Fixed block drops in 1.21, fixed taupe string, fixed marble and obsidian harvesting, added recipes for wood buttons and pressure plates 

1.02 - Fixed gravel drops, taupe wool clumps, and bone knife JEI helper. Fixed primitive crafting not working in 1.20 and 1.21. Added thatch slabs.

1.01 - Fixed Rocks not being generated in 1.20 and 1.21