Ascension of Ages
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A curated progression pack across defined ages utilizing unique mod flavor, gated advancement, predatory revamped mob systems, tech & magic integrated by custom recipes throughout, and algorithm-designed boss placement required for progression in each age.
What's new
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New questlines (FTB Quests)
- The Industrial Revolution age is now fully written. Nine chapters take you from your first factory to the edge of automation: Immersive Engineering coke ovens, blast furnaces and steel; Modern Industrialization steam power; electrical grids and mechanical power with Create Additions; PneumaticCraft pressure systems and circuit boards; advanced Create machinery and mining; ProjectRed and Integrated Dynamics logic and routing; a magic feedstock branch that wires Malum, Spectrum and Forbidden Arcanus into your machines; the Netherite Citadel and Obsidilith boss fights; and an optional side branch for extra gear.
- The Gilded age questline is in. It runs from the Golden Workshop and the Refinery into the Mind of the Machine, the Infinite Grid (Applied Energistics and Refined Storage networks), Empire of Iron, Circuits and Current, and Chartered Arcana, plus Oritech deep machines and electronics. Clearing it authorizes the Atomic age. (spine, WIP - ~10% complete)
Magic and industry
- New recipes let magic feed your factories. Malum spirits, Spectrum shards and Forbidden Arcanus materials now power PneumaticCraft, Integrated Dynamics and Oritech builds in the Industrial Revolution.
- Forbidden Arcanus opens a little earlier in Gilded.
- Applied Energistics and Refined Storage stay out of the Industrial Revolution and arrive in Gilded, where the Infinite Grid teaches them.
Mods removed
- Questlog. FTB Quests is the quest mod going forward.
- Visual Health and Health Bars, both removed to improve performance.
Fixes
- The Industrial capstone now routes correctly through the Obsidian Heart dropped by Obsidilith, closing a progression softlock.
- Cleaned up broken and out of order quest dependencies.
- Updated many bundled mods to their latest versions for stability and bug fixes.
- Fixed broken astages reveal ore commands, fixed AoA core mod overriding it too hard.
Returning players: run /aoa stage info if your progression looks stuck.