GregTech: Restored

The grid is dark, and everything you build from here is the first light.

GregTech: Restored is a quest-guided GregTech pack for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge), built around GregTech CEu Modern 7.5.3. You start with your hands, flint and fire, work your way through the Tinkers' smeltery, the steam age and Create, and then climb GregTech's voltage tiers from LV all the way to LuV, with rockets and new planets along the way.

Quest rewards are parts and materials for your next step. They'll speed you up, but they never skip a GregTech tier.

⚠️ Public beta

This is a beta. The quest line currently covers LV through LuV, and things may still change before 1.0 (balance, recipes and quests included). Full 1.0 comes once LuV and the bees are polished. Back up your worlds before updating, and please report bugs! Post bug reports in this project's comments.

What's in the pack

• Cleaner quest book: all 11 chapters (Getting Started included) have been rearranged into tidier, circuit-board-style paths with fewer crossing lines. Only quest positions changed; all 258 quests, their tasks, rewards and progression are the same.

258 quests in 11 chapters

Every quest has a title and a description.

GregTech first, everything else tied in

• GregTech CEu Modern is the backbone. Other mods' machines, storage and gear are gated behind GregTech tiers, so nothing lets you skip ahead. For example: Ender IO gets its power only from GregTech and its alloys from GregTech machines, Applied Energistics 2 opens at HV, and Waystones open at MV.
• No ore doubling shortcuts. Ore processing goes through GregTech. Tinkers' smeltery, Create and Ender IO can't multiply ores.
• GregTech hazards and pollution are turned off.

Early game: flint, Tinkers and Create

• Tinkers' Construct 3 is your main tool system early on, with GregTech metals added as Tinkers materials (steel, aluminium, stainless steel, titanium).
• Tools level up: a brand-new Tinkers tool mines one tier below its material until it reaches Tool Level 1 (Tinkers' Levelling Addon).
• Create (with Greate for GregTech-tier Create machines): a quest path to wrought iron through Create's bulk blasting, Create-made Tinkers tool parts, and more.
• Steam age machines from GregTech, plus the Steam Foundry and Steam Separator from GregTech Steam Additions.

Space with Ad Astra

• Rockets and space suits are built from GregTech parts and fuelled with GregTech Rocket Fuel.
• Tier 1 rocket and space suit at HV (the Moon), Tier 2 at EV (Mars), Tier 3 at IV (Venus and Mercury, with the Netherite Space Suit for the heat), and Tier 4 at LuV (Glacio). The Jet Suit is an optional LuV goal.
• Each planet has its own GregTech ore veins, such as titanium and chromite on the Moon, tungsten on Mars, the platinum group on Venus, and naquadah on Glacio.

Optional magic: Arcane Alternatives

Magic is always optional and never needed for GregTech, but it's tied into GregTech tiers so it fits the climb:

• Botania, Ars Nouveau, Blood Magic (altar tiers follow GregTech tiers) and Occultism.
• Occultism miner spirits are a real way to get ore, but each spirit only digs ores from the tier you reached to make it.
• A Gaia Guardian fight at IV, and a LuV boost that grows crystal chips from Gaia Spirits.

Optional bees: Productive Bees, the GregTech way

• A second way to get ore, from LV to LuV. Turn a normal bee into a Worker Bee with a GregTech Emitter, then into an ore bee with a block of raw ore.
• 14 ore bees, from iron, copper and tin at LV up to naquadah at LuV.
• Combs only open in the GregTech Centrifuge, so the ore still goes through your normal ore line.
• Hive upgrades need GregTech parts.

Exploration and adventure

• The Twilight Forest is the MV dimension. Its portal needs a GregTech-made Grid Resonator.
• New terrain from Terralith and Tectonic, plus structures from When Dungeons Arise, YUNG's mods and L_Ender's Cataclysm bosses.
• Apotheosis (Adventure module only) for affix loot, gems and minibosses, plus Artifacts and Relics as exploration loot.
• Hostile mobs get tougher in harder dimensions.

Storage, automation and quality of life

• Applied Energistics 2 with MEGA Cells, ExtendedAE, AdvancedAE and wireless terminals, all gated by GregTech tier.
• Sophisticated Backpacks and Storage, Functional Storage, Storage Drawers, CC: Tweaked, Hostile Neural Networks, Iron Jetpacks.
• EMI recipe viewer, Jade, Xaero's Minimap and World Map, FTB Chunks, FTB Ultimine, Waystones, Corpse, Simple Backups and Chunky for pregenerating your world.
• Spice of Life: Carrot Edition with Farmer's Delight, Cooking for Blockheads and Pam's HarvestCraft 2: eat a variety of food to grow from 10 hearts up to 16.

Farming and food: Pam's HarvestCraft 2

• About 100 new crops, 50 fruit trees and several hundred foods. Look for wild gardens and fruit trees out in the world.
• Pam's kitchen tools are made with GregTech iron and copper plates. They never wear out, so you only make them once.
• Pam's crops work in GregTech too: seeds make Seed Oil in the Extractor, crops make Biomass in the Brewery, and GregTech salt works in Pam's recipes.
• Nothing in HarvestCraft skips a GregTech tier. Its paper and charcoal shortcuts are removed.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47.4.28. The pack has 134 mods.
• Memory: give the game 8 GB (that's what the pack's instance is set to). The pack was tested with 8 GB.
• Start a new world. New ore veins only appear in chunks that haven't been generated yet.
• Pregenerating your world with Chunky is recommended. The Tips and Tricks chapter explains how.

Multiplayer

A server pack is available as a separate file. To respect mod licenses, it does not include the all-rights-reserved mods (for example the FTB mods, Productive Bees and Pam's HarvestCraft 2). On first start, the server downloads them from their official sources. Get it from this project's Files tab: it's listed with each client file as "GregTech-Restored-v0.10.0-server.zip".

Where to get it

Version 0.10.0 is a beta, on CurseForge only. A Modrinth version is planned for later.

Credits

GregTech: Restored is made by Bailey Stone.

Huge thanks to all the mod authors whose work makes this pack possible, starting with the GregTech CEu Modern team and MatrexsVigil for Pam's HarvestCraft 2. The full mod list is on the "Relations" tab of this project page. Every mod belongs to its authors and keeps its own license.

How the mods are delivered:

• Client pack: your CurseForge launcher downloads nearly every mod straight from its CurseForge page. The only two jars included in the pack file are CC: Tweaked 1.120.2, which isn't on CurseForge and whose open license allows it, and the pack's own small fix mod, blackstart-emifix.
• Server pack: all-rights-reserved mods are not bundled. The server downloads them from their official sources the first time it starts.

The pack also includes a small fix mod of its own (blackstart-emifix) that helps EMI show Tinkers' Construct recipe pages.