Rift Technology

Rift Technology is a tech mod built around rifts, player-owned networks, and Rift Flux. Recruit villagers, assign them a profession, then grow an industrial base of energy, logistics, machines, and tools. The world answers with rifts, mutated creatures, and Phase Instability.

Villagers

•   Recruit a villager and turn them into a worker
•   Assign a profession: Farmer, Lumberjack, Herder, Butcher, Carrier, Warrior, or Runner
•   Farmers harvest fields and can find Stellar and Resonance materials. Lumberjacks cut and replant trees. Herders handle animals. Butchers process livestock. Carriers move cargo. Warriors fight. Runners generate power on a PowerMill 9000
•   Use Extractor Stalls to pull milk or Rift Ichor from animals

Rift Flux

•   Flux Rifts appear in the world and raise chunk Rift Flux (Φ)
•   Nearby mobs can mutate into Rift Grazers, Rift Bats, Rift Spiders, Rift Skeletons, Rift Zombies, and Rift Creepers
•   Standing in flux builds Phase Instability. High values lead to Phase Decay
•   Measure flux with a Rift Flux Analyzer. Contain a rift with a Rift Anchor. Place a Contained Rift to keep its strength
•   Survive with a Phase Stabilizer, Flux Insulation modules, and Rift-related drops (Ichor, Ice, Web, Phasewood, Rift Berry, Crimson Herb)

Energy

•   Generate FE with Combustion Generators, Solar Panels, Flux Reactors, and PowerMill 9000
•   Flux Reactors convert neighboring chunk flux into power. Cool them with Rift Ichor. Add Flux Amplifiers in the same chunk for extra Φ
•   Move energy through cable networks. Store it in Energy Orbs
•   Link generators and storage to an Access Terminal to lock them to your network

Storage, logistics, and machines

•   Build a player network around an Access Terminal, Access Card, and Configurator
•   Expand item storage with Storage Modules. Share fluids with Quantum Tanks. Use Fluid Tanks for local buffering
•   Move items and fluids through pipe networks, with filters and side configuration
•   Unlock crafting-table recipes at a Research Terminal, then autocraft them in a Fabricator
•   Assemble complex parts in an Assembly Machine. Smelt up to 9 items in an Electric Furnace. Drive neighboring machines through a Processing Interface
•   Deploy a Miner Drone for automated mining. Power Thrift and Parallel Beam upgrades change energy use and how many blocks it breaks. Compatible with FTB Chunks claims

Equipment

•   Wear Mechanical Armor and install modules at a Modification Station (vision, oxygen, auto-feed, flux insulation, solar charging, magnets, and more)
•   Powered tools: Mining Laser, Plasma Disruptor, Antigravity Disk, Night Vision Goggles

Crops and food

•   Farm strawberry, cabbage, tomato, cucumber, onion, garlic, corn, bell pepper, eggplant, lettuce, blueberry, and raspberry
•   Wild patches spawn in matching Overworld biomes. Cooked recipes use the harvests
•   Grow Crimson Herb and Rift Berry for rift-related uses

Base extras

•   Automatic doors, camouflage blocks, landmines, laser fences, light panels, cockroach traps, Phasewood building blocks, and more utility blocks for a lived-in base

Requirements

•   Minecraft 1.21.1
•   NeoForge 21.1.228 or newer
•   GeckoLib 4.8 or newer (required)

Optional: JEI, Jade, Mekanism (shielding module), FTB Chunks (miner claim checks)

Development status

This is my first Minecraft mod. I am learning as I go. Some textures and models are not perfect yet, and I will keep polishing them whenever I get new ideas or find the time. Feedback is welcome.

Planned for future versions

•   Fruit trees
•   More decorative blocks
•   Additional worker professions