Tetra revolves around modular items and attemps to blend it together with other concepts such as adventure and technology.
Getting Started
- 1. Craft a mallet using two sticks and two logs
- 2. Craft and place a vanilla crafting table
- 3. Right click the table with the mallet to upgrade it into a workbench
- 4. Craft a vanilla weapon or a tool and place it in the workbench
- Check the advancements window for hints on how to progress further
Modular Items
Tetra allows you to replace parts of items with different parts of different types and materials, some parts can also be improved. Which parts you may use is limited by the items capacity, called integrity. Some parts increase an items integrity while some parts has an integrity cost. Some parts require tools of differing quality to craft.
Currently the following modular items are available:
* sword
* toolbelt
* double headed tools (axes, pickaxes, hammers etc)
Toolbelt
Allows quick access to offhand items. Place items into the toolbelt and quickly put them in your offhand using the v key (configurable).
Ancient Ruins
Ancient ruins can be found deep underground in cold biomes. Materials and technology can be salvaged from the ruins, some are required for progression.
Geodes
Geodes can be found when mining at lower levels and can be cracked open at an upgraded crafting table. Yields valuable items when opened (possible items and probabilities are configurable).
Configuration
Most content in tetra can be configured, go here for more information: https://github.com/mickelus/tetra/wiki/Configuration
Materials
Many different materials can be used when changing parts of an item, some materials for other mods are also usable by default. Materials that can be used when crafting an item part or module are highlighted if they are in the player inventory. The plan is to add an ingame material guide, until then here's a list of usable materials for different parts:
Hammer heads:
log
stone
iron
obsidian
copper
tin
nickel
lead
bronze
electrum
steel
thaumium
ironwood
steeleaf
fierymetal
knightmetal
Other tool heads:
oak
cobblestone
flint
iron
diamond
gold
copper
tin
silver
nickel
lead
bronze
electrum
steel
thaumium
ironwood
steeleaf
fierymetal
knightmetal
Tool handles:
stick
oak
spruce
birch
jungle
acacia
dark oak
maple
cherry
baobab
bone
iron
bronze
steel
blaze rod
end rod
greatwood
treated wood
ironwood
Sword hilts:
hilt stick
oak
spruce
birch
jungle
acacia
dark oak
maple
cherry
baobab
bone
iron
bronze
steel
blaze rod
end rod
greatwood
treated wood
ironwood
Other sword parts:
oak
spruce
birch
jungle
acacia
dark oak
cobblestone
stone
granite
diorite
andesite
iron
flint
gold
diamond
obsidian
copper
tin
silver
nickel
lead
bronze
electrum
steel
thaumium
ironwood
steeleaf
fierymetal
knightmetal
Belt parts (varies, but includes):
leather
iron
wool
rabbit hide
Discord
I'm available on the forge and MMD discord servers and I've got a channel set up over here: https://discord.gg/Xfwhgzu, feel free to poke me over there for questions/issues that do not belong in the issue tracker.
Are there any plans for a 1.14 port in the near future? I quite enjoy this mod, and a port to 1.14 would dramatically increase its exposure due to the current lack of modular tool style mods for 1.14.
In reply to Fission_Fragment:
I've started working towards 1.14. Alot has changed since 1.12 and forge is still in beta, so it will be out soon™.
How do i craft hammer, not mallet? What is Tier and how to obtain it?
Cool mod. Thank you very much!
In reply to Nazgulik:
You upgrade the mallet to a hammer by replacing the head with stone or iron, and that's how you obtain a higher tier hammer.
Is there any way you could allow the tool belt to let you pick an empty slot to place your off-hand item into that slot without pulling anything else out of it? Some of the mods I use have "empty hand" interactions that also check your off-hand, so it would be really nice to be able to leave a tool slot empty so I have a place to hang my stuff while I do whatever needs both hands to do.
Also, just out of curiosity, are there plans to add more types of tools and stuff to modify? I really like your take on tool modifications (Tinker's Construct is interesting, but I like my mods a bit more grounded, and the Christmas-tree colors especially are a little jarring... the main reason I like it is the smeltery, because apparently I'm a huge sucker for multiblocks), so I'm just wondering if I should look forward to modded shovels and bows and stuff at some point as well.
Finally, I haven't used this mod a ton yet (I'm still in the "try all the mods to see which ones I like" phase, since I just got into modded Minecraft), but I was caving a bit ago and got a message like "the handle of your shovel has settled" (not the exact wording). I have no idea what that means, and I can't find anything on it here, either. Is that something I need to pay attention to?
In reply to JRutterbush:
I'm not sure if I follow, it seems to me like what you've requested is the same as what pressing shift+f does?
Yes, more tools/items, more parts, more improvements and more honing! I also really like the smelting mechanic in Tinker's Construct, I've got some neat ideas for smelting in tetra as well but I'm reluctant towards adding it as I don't want tetra to end up as a clone of tinkers.
When you use items from tetra they improve over time in two ways:
In reply to mickelus:
"I'm not sure if I follow, it seems to me like what you've requested is the same as what pressing shift+f does?"
Oh, it says that's "Restock" in the menu, and I never really had anything I would consider needing to be restocked. I assumed it would, for example, refill a stack of torches from the belt if you were running low or something.
What I was talking about is literally just emptying your off-hand into the tool belt. Right now, if I press F to change out my off-hand, I can swap one item for another, but I can't just put my off-hand item in the belt without also taking something else out, even if I leave an empty slot in the belt, so I have to manually go into my inventory to empty my off-hand to perform certain actions like emptying my cauldron in Thaumcraft (which requires your off-hand be empty). For a more specific example: I used a tool belt with three tool slots, carrying my shield, a wand, and a revolver. I usually run around with my shield, leaving the belt as a wand, a revolver, and a blank slot. When I want to, for example, empty a Thaumcraft cauldron, I need to put my shield away, so I press F to bring up the quick-select bar. I can click on the wand to swap the wand and shield, or click on the revolver to swap the revolver and shield, but I can't click on the empty slot to put my shield in that slot and leave my off-hand empty.
Hopefully that better explains what I was talking about, but either way, I'll try out the restock thing next time I play to see if maybe I was just misunderstanding what it does.
And thanks for letting me know about honing and settling, that sounds really cool! I didn't even realize there would be more upgrades and stuff that become available, I'm really looking forward to that now.
And it's great to hear about upcoming plans, too. Honestly, it's not so much the smelting system I liked from Tinker's (though it is nice), it's the multiblock itself. I just love the immersive mods that make you build a more significant structure to do cool things rather than just giving you one block to tuck away in a corner somewhere. I like planning my base and having to dedicate an entire room to one awesome machine.
There are mods like silent gems and adventures toolbox that basically are alternatives to tinkers. But they are in fact different for tinkers in every way in the look and mechanics side. But the mods them self are great and i think that your mod will be up there with the others i listed as well as tinkers. or i'm just being metal, i don't know. But great mod and i hope it is a even greater mod than now in the far future. :)
Nice. I'm not a huge fan of tinker's just because it adds so many materials. How full-featured is this without them?
Also. Where on earth did you get that awesome gui texture. I want it.
In reply to spicklesandwich:
I don't understand the question, tetra does not integrate with TiC.
Glad you like it :)
In reply to mickelus:
Uh I mean how well does it play without extra modded materials, just the vanilla ones? I know some mods are designed for super modded play, so they don't work so well without a dozen ores.
In reply to spicklesandwich:
If you prefer fewer materials it's probably going to play well with fewer materials
In reply to mickelus:
👍👍
I have a question, is this an attempt of you created your own version of tinkers? Because if it is i'm all for it. I think this mod looks interesting and i look forward to seeing the progression of the creating of this mod through out. (via updates) Nice work, keep up the spirit of creating a fantastic mod!
In reply to GamingNinjaGunner:
Tetra is similar to TiC as modular items are a core mechanic, but I'm not attempting to re-create TiC.
Thanks for the positive feedback :D
What and why is the magmatic cell?
In reply to blackwinggames:
How is the magmatic cell?
I feel very dumb when I ask this...
How do I make a level 5 hammer, when the max that I can reach is 4? Is there some way to improve the forge hammer or something?
In reply to 2048andrew:
It's not explained anywhere so it's difficult to know. You can configure the forge hammer by hitting it with a handheld hammer, once you've removed the red-ish covers on the sides.
I love this mod, me and my friends are having tons of fun with it!
I made some config changes and material additions to fit my pack and it has been a blast.
I hope you keep working on it and adding features!