Prima Materia

By
ItMeCasey

Sieves, hammers, barrels and crucibles: build every resource from a void island, with an animated sieve, no screens and everything driven by datapacks.

Prima Materia is a skyblock resource mod. You start on a small island in the void with one tree, and every resource in the game comes from breaking matter down and sorting it: crush it with a hammer, shake it through a sieve, soak it in a barrel and melt it in a crucible.

Features

The sieve is the star: five mesh tiers (cloth, copper, iron, diamond, netherite), an animated mesh that shakes while material thins out, finds that fall through, and a sound for every step. Sieves hold a stack of material and show their progress on the block itself.
Hammers that break blocks down, from gravel and sand to finer dust, in tiers from wood to netherite.
Barrels for composting, mixing fluids and slow transformations.
A crucible that melts stone and dust into molten metal, and casting trays that turn it into ingots.
The Nether and the End are part of the chain, with soul sand sifting for mob drops.
The Auto Hammer and the Powered Drive run the same work without you standing there.
No screens and no text to read. Every block is used in the world and reads its state from its model.
Everything is data. Every recipe and every sifting table is a datapack file, so packs can add, change and remove any of it.

Compatibility

Recipe viewers: BEI, JEI and REI show every recipe family and the sifting tables where builds exist for the Minecraft version.
Scripting: an optional ModJS global, PrimaMateria, and datapack JSON for KubeJS and datapacks.
Works with SMWTI and Jade for the state of blocks in the world.
Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3 on Forge and NeoForge, one jar per Minecraft version.