While playing pickup sticks with your cat, an envelope slides under the door nearest to you. No. Not that door. The other door. To the left. Yes. That's the door. When you open the envelope, you find the following letter and a very flat piece of green circuit board with a small red button on it:

To Whom It May Concern,

We at CipraTech congratulate you on formulating the idea that it was necessary to purchase this CipraTech branded Virtual Voxel World™ (VVW™). Formulating ideas can be tough, and we are proud of you for doing so on your own despite the numerous advertisements you may have seen for this VVW™.

When you press the red button, you will be transported into the VVW™ with an instruction manual for how to use your new VVW™. You'll also receive a few other virtual bits and bobs. Not Bobs, but bobs. We don't sell Bobs. That would be against the law.

Within this world, you will be able to collect resources and craft multiple CipraTech patented machines and tools. Some of those include solar generators, teleporters, vehicles, digging tools, computers, robots, etc. Within the world, there has been a simulated catastrophe. Remnants of cities abound, full of monsters and things that go >boom< in the night. What intelligent life is left cares nothing about you and only about emeralds. And they are rather daft, to boot.

Your purpose is to rebuild this world. Begin with the few items we give you and make the world a thriving and booming society once again. If you manage to do so, we will consider you for one of our intern spots.

Sincerely,

Carl Munchberg

C.E.O. of CipraTech

Mayor of Ciprania

P.S. We do not take responsibility for any loss of life or dismemberment that may occur when the red button is pushed. And by pressing the red button, or having it pressed within your vicinity, you agree to stay in the VVW™ until either loss of life occurs, or the world is thriving once again. We haven't figured out the pause feature yet.

After you finish reading the letter, you decide that the red button is not something you want to push. Who would after reading that postscript!? But, at that exact second the red button starts flashing. Your cat gets on your shoulder and paws at the fascinating blinking red light in your hand. You suddenly appear in a very blocky world with fancy music playing from the sky and a tree in front of you begging you to punch it.

Don't worry. Your cat is safe back at home still pawing at the circuit board, that is, until the circuit board goes flying under the refrigerator with that candy wrapper from 1998.

It's at this very moment that you think to yourself, "Wait... when did I get a cat?"

OOC DISCLAIMER AND INFORMATION

For more story about Ciprania, see "The History of Ciprania" here.

All of the above is fictional. Any references to CipraTech having a patent on a device created by a mod from an author is not true. It's a story. We do not claim the creation of the mods in this pack and are wholeheartedly thankful for the work that the mod developers have put into these mods.

Speaking of the mods, we've picked out some of the best tech mods for 1.15.2: Mekanism, Industrial Foregoing, Gauges and Switches, Mr. Crayfish's Vehicle mod, and many others. We've included some quality of life mods also. And we've made sure the pack is as server friendly as possible.

To report bugs with the pack or make suggestions for it, please see the GitHub. Thank you for choosing our pack, and if you need a server to play with your friends, click the banner at the top!

LOST CITIES WARNING

Lost Cities can cause chunk generation problems and crash the server. We still want to use the mod because it represents a huge part of the theme of this pack. Our workaround is when the crash happens, disable Lost Cities, run the server for a while, and then re-enable it. Make a backup of your world first. If you'd rather not go through that, then disable Lost Cities on the server. Clients can still connect.