Description
Join the ranks of SlackTech as a Pioneer, exploring a distant and barely known planet to industrialize and profit on behalf of this highly successful mega corporation.
SlackTech, having technology and influence in most industries; offers more ways to complete tasks than ever before. Pioneers have access to almost limitless options to build complex, automated, and networked machines and factories. The challenge of the SlackTech Pioneer isn't to find a way to produce goods, it's to achieve high daily production rates to complete as many goods shipments as possible and maximize profits for your operation.
Build your ultimate mega-factory, prioritize your income and spending, and work towards buying out your contract and your early retirement. Make your fortune and learn the secrets of the largest mega corporation in the Central Galactic Group.
- Tons of tech and QoL, 345 meticulously curated mods + 6 resource packs
- Extensive cross compatability enhancements.
- Lots of additional asthetic building materials, especially industrial themed ones
- Enhanced movement, crawling, and climbing to improve gameplay
- Well optimized, client tested, and server tested
- Create and 30 add-ons with tons of new abilities and options.
- Mekanism and 7 add-ons including new types of logistics items and AE2 compatability.
- AE2 and 9 add-ons to provide high-tier network factory capabilities, faster and more capable AE2 type machines, and cross compatability with: Mekanism, Cooking for Blockheads, and more.
- 750+ quests ranging from building machines and contraptions to visiting far off lands
- Storyline events (developing / in progress)
- ~700 custom recipes to open up new possibilites for production
- Hundreds of other various scripts to fix, improve, and alter the experience
- Custom items for story content (by MadSciSlack & Othlon)
- Custom assets for questbook asthetics (by Othlon and MadSciSlack)
- Custom crops (Assets by Othlon)
- Custom corn flour and overhauled food recipes.
- Planned story content (in progress / eventually)
- Made with multiplayer in mind (Developed and tested in multiplayer)
- Active development and support, constant improvements.
Note: The current version does not include voice content, the full storyline, or the gamestages implementation to make it trigger. The bones are there, but these fancy elements will be added in the future. We're still working, writing, adding, and improving constantly.
We're a very small team, with myself building most of the pack, questline, and scripting. There are still a ton of things that we would like to do in this modpack. We still need voice actors to help complete the storyline, another writer, and serious play testers that will diligently provide feedback. If you're interested in helping with this pack in any way, please reach out on Discord:
Othlon (And Slack's) Discord
Thermal X Mekanism Logistics X Applied Energistics 2
Mekanism X Applied Energistics 2 Networking
Mekanism Logistic X Vanilla Lava Generator
ComputerCraft, Advanced Peripherals, and More Peripherals for Programmable Operation Control
Fully Automatable Tasks Completion to Maximize Profits
Information, Tasks, Shops, Structures, and More Can All Be Located in the SlackTech Mission PDA
Challenging and Ridiculous Custom Items and Recipes Push Players to Build Assembly Lines
More Ways to Make... Almost Everything Due to Hundreds of Custom Scripts
Server Pack
Server packs are back! It's been a long time, so please be patient while I weed out the process again. Please let me know in the Discord if you encounter issues or need help. Othlon (And Slack's) Discord
Please note: due to differences in server environments, it's best for server operators to pre-configure and install Forge to their server before importing the contents of the server pack. I recommend an 8Gb server or larger, but this will depend on the usual factors (players, world size, ticking block use, server specs, etc). The pack currently uses Forge 43.3.13, which is freely available from Forge.
Performance Tips
Due to the insane amount of tech in this pack, players and especially servers could encounter lag and / or TPS issues once later-game operations are active and loaded. The below is advice for helping maintain a healthy tickrate while developing your operation. NONE of these are intended to be prohibitive or tell players how to play, but knowing what has the most impact helps a lot.
- Build Clutches and redstone control into your machines. Being able to turn off machines helps a lot with tickrate and graphical lag. AE2 networks can also control these Clutches via the ME Emitter. Combining these with a crafting card allows the network to automatically activate the machine when an item it makes is crafting in the network.
- Minimize fluid pipe usage (Create and Mekanism). Using Mekanism is marginally better than Create (due to extra pumps in Create), but they still have a heavy impact. Using AE2 networks, Quantum Entangeloporters, or Fluid Teleporters from Create: Ender Transmission saves a lot of TPS spent on fluid pipes, especially longer ones.
- Minimize Logistical Transporter usage. Again, replacing these with AE2 networks, Quantum Entangeloporters, or Item Teleporters can save a lot of TPS. Longer pipes, more complex pipes, and color coded sorting systems quickly add to the impact.
- Replace Create Shafts with Void Motors from Create: Utilities. These are wireless sources of rotational energy, and can save a TON of TPS power spent on Shafts and long transmission systems.
- Upgrade your Botany Pots! The whole reason behind having high tier Botany Pots is to reduce how many players need to have. This usually saves on other logic blocks as well like Hoppers and Logistical Transporters.