aiz0/create-grand-expanse

A Create centered modpack

Create: Grand Expanse

A Progression modpack centered around Create and Ad Astra.

⚠️	This pack is in early development.

Installation and Developement

This modpack uses packwiz to manage mods from CurseForge and Modrinth. You need to install packwiz to add mods and to install the modpack.^[1]

Installation Instructions

Instructions are based on the packwiz installer tutorial, Please check them if you have any issues.

1. Clone this repository.

2. Install packwiz.

3. To install the modpack you need to to use a launcher that supports running prelaunch tasks. ^[2]

   We recommend Prism Launcher.

4. Create an instance matching the minecraft and modloader version the modpack uses.

   Minecraft

   1.19.2

   Forge

   43.3.0

5. Download packwiz installer bootstrap into the instance minecraft folder.

   ℹ️	This should be minecraft, if it’s not there you can create it.

6. In Prism Launcher, go to Edit Instance → Settings → Custom commands, check the Custom Commands box and paste the following command into the pre-launch command field:

   Pre-launch command

   "$INST_JAVA" -jar packwiz-installer-bootstrap.jar http://localhost:8080/pack.toml

   💡	packwiz-installer-bootstrap.jar will query github for the latest version of packwiz installer If you see it failing often you can add --bootstrap-no-update as an option to packwiz-installer-bootstrap.jar to disable update checking.

7. In your local repository run packwiz serve to host a local copy of pack.toml that packwiz installer can access. pack.toml will be updated every time it’s queried. ^[3]

8. Now every time you launch the instance it will get the version of the modpack matching your local repository. Any changes you make will be applied when you launch the game.

   💡	If you are making changes that don’t require minecraft to be restarted you can make a script that runs packwiz-installer-bootstrap.jar to update the modpack without restarting the game.

Development info

To prevent merge conflicts we have enabled the packwiz option no-internal-hashes.

❗	Hashes will still be generated whenever the hosted pack.toml is queried. Because of this please make sure to run packwiz refresh before adding files to commit.

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1. We haven’t published this modpack anywhere yet so this is currently the only way to install it.

2. Pre launch tasks are not really required but it simplifys things.

3. This should default to http://localhost:8080/pack.toml. The same url we entered in the pre-launch command field.

create-grand-expanse's Issues

Journey Map

A better minimap/full map than the ftb one

Scannable mod

To find the persistent ores the player should use an item.
The mod scannable seems promising.

I think we would want the create themed scannable resource pack.

I hope we have a way to charge it early game...

Iron tool recipes

NO IRON TOOLS WITHOUT CASTING.

Remove normal tool and armor recipes.
Use items you can only get from casting for recipes.
For tools this is tool heads.

farmers delight knife craftable with thing from smithing table iron plate.

Better Creative Mode

We should consider adding this.
https://modrinth.com/plugin/sidekick

Project red illumination

add project red illumination
Lamps and stuff i guess

Do we keep Thermal Foundation?

Thermal Foundation has a lot of ores that we want.
It also has a bunch of items we can use in recipes.

Recipes for items required to get to moon

To get to the moon you need

• Rocket
• Space suit
• Oxygen loader
• power for oxygen loader (ad astra provides coal burner) not needed because of #126
• launchpad.
• fuel for rocket

At the moment all of these require steel...
We don't want steel until later.

All these recipes need to change.

add mod create encased

I disliked that I couldn't put brass casings on cogwheels and stuff im stupid i mean gearboxes.
I really like the look.

https://modrinth.com/mod/create-encased

Disable mekanism tin ore generation

thermal items look better so we should use them.

just look at what they did to tin ore...

BETTER SUGGESTIONS

I NEED THIS
https://modrinth.com/mod/suggestion-tweaker

Quark emotes and no chat reports overlap

We should try to move one or the other.

use quark rope instead of farmers delight

I think quark rope is the better of the two.

Can probably be unified

Disable AE2 meteors

foundry made out of cast iron

#105

Create Sifter

Sifters

normal Sifter

brass sifter

can use advanced brass mesh
can process more at a time 8x by default.
filter

Meshes

Roughly how default recipes are

String Mesh

dirt to coral
sand to redstone and bonemeal

andesite mesh

gravel to nuggets + coal and flint
sand has chance for experience now

zinc mesh

gravel has chance for lapis and experience now
sand has higher chance for redstone

brass mesh

gravel to crushed raw ore instead of nuggets.
sand has chance for blaze powder and glowstone dust
soul sand to quarts

advanced brass mesh

gravel has chance for diamonds.
soulsand chance for ghast tear.

what to change

1. We have to remove the default sifting recipes
2. meshes are crafted by surrounding an ingot with sticks. We can probably switch to using meshes from create deco.
3. I don't know if we wanna use the different tiers of meshes to make the same sifting recipe more powerful. We might just use them to gatekeep certain sifting...

Rose Gold

At the very least we want molten rose gold which i would have to implement with kubejs.
A mod that adds items is enough. I don't think we want tools tough... unless? Do we do this instead of iron? It would require casting.. #35

Early Sifting Recipes

I don't know what the recipes should be

Configure exetended cogwheels

Should be possible to do with kubejs don't really know how to though????

Speed limits should probably be.
256 -> 512 -> 1024

Connected textures

I want my smooth stone to look good

add game stages to hide items not yet available

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/game-stages
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/item-stages

Blaze Burner recipe

Nether is disabled, there's no way to get blaze burners to start using metallurgy in the early game.

Empty Blaze burner probably needs a new recipe since we've disabled the nether.
The only way to get it is to find a ruined nether portal right now.
We could either use something to replace the netherrack or add a recipe for it.
I think we should just change the recipe to use something other than netherrack.

blazes also need to spawn somewhere in the overworld preferably underground near lava.

Forgery entity tags

disable entity tags

You can see mobs and players through walls. a bit cheaty

Resource Pack for Compasses

loot table modification

Some items such as iron tools should not be available from chests and such.
We need to modify loot tables for that.
For that we can use lootjs.
https://modrinth.com/mod/lootjs

Sophisticated backpacks recipes

I think we should replace the sophisticated backpack recipes.

We should figure out at what stages the player should get a backpack upgrade.
I think we should only have 3 tiers. The starting one of course. One upgrade with some form of sequence assembly and a final one after reaching the moon because that's when the player should unlock AE2

• Lether Backpack
• Iron Backpack
• Gold Backpack
• Diamond Backpack
• Netherite Backpack

Item obliterator mod doesn't work correctly

It should remove recipes and hide items from REI but it doesn't.
This is know and is being looked into by mod author.

Items still can't be used so they are effectively disabled.

Copper tools

I'm thinking we should consider this one
https://modrinth.com/mod/purecoppertools

Ping display on servers

Show ping as a number.
Not sure if this one works for our version.
https://modrinth.com/mod/better-ping-display

Compile resource packs into just 1 or two and use them by default

Make gold tools uncraftable

Gold tools in quark have fortune 2.
This will probably be the easiest way to get fortune 2 in this modpack.
The player shouldn't have to keep crafting gold tools to get fortune 2.
That's why gold tools should be uncraftable and instead only be found as loot.

Removing recipes should be pretty easy.

Icon

We should add a silly icon for now... icon.png

Redstone wand

More vertical redstone for post mars

Andesite alloy recipe

I don't know we want to keep the default andesite alloy recipe.

Andesite + zinc/iron nuggets

We should definitively add a liquid to cast andesite alloy.

Recipe for mechanical extruder

The mechanical extruder is way too cheap imo.
It needs a more expensive recipe than the drill to justify the fact that its easier to set up.

ore processing.

Create ore processing

raw material -> crush -> crushed raw material -> wash -> nuggets
you don't get extra from this but instead a byproduct for each step.
This is because the main way to get these is with a fortune pick axe.

Since we are kinda discouraging enchanting I think we should have these steps give extra instead.
Maybe we should also remove the washing steps...

Metallurgy ore processing

crushed raw material -> crushing -> dirty dust -> washing -> dust -> melting
You have a 25% chance for extra dirty dust.
washing has a chance for a byproduct.
while you can melt all of these, pure dust gives extra fluid when melting.

I have removed the dusts giving extra fluid for now.
I think it is better if you just get chance for extra.

Mekanism

raw material -> dissolution chamber -> dirty slurry -> c washer -> clean slurry -> crystallizer -> crystal -> injector -> shard -> purify -> clump -> crush -> dirty dust -> enrichment -> clean dust

more info at a ftb wiki

Create Connected features

https://github.com/hlysine/create_connected/wiki/New-Features

Personally I feel that some of these should be disabled.

This includes all gearboxes and the chain cogwheel.
The other stuff I'm mostly either fine with or would be glad to have.

curios slot for spyglass replace zoom mod

https://modrinth.com/mod/spyglass-of-curios

Fumo

Currently no 1.19.2 release. one can hope though...
https://modrinth.com/mod/fumo

Tom's storage

We need to take a look at what features of toms storage we want and which ones to disable.

We also need to change the crafting recipes.
What if we made it use rose gold?

Natures compass

Allows you to find biomes.
Might be good with terralith world gen.
https://modrinth.com/mod/natures-compass

Blazes in volcanic areas

Blazes should spawn in volcanic areas.

This would be the Volcanic creater and the Volcanic peaks.

This was not included in #56 originally because I didn't want the player to have to find a rare biome to progress.

We could just do both though. Have to play around with In Control to figure out how to do that.

Use kubejs variable FluidAmounts

the amounts are already defined here, don't need to define them ourselves.
https://kubejs.com/wiki/ref/FluidAmounts

graphite + iron mixed into cast iron

should be heated

AE2 me drives are kill only vaults remain.

Create item vaults should be the what you store items in until you unlock digital storage wayyyy later...

Can probably start with disabling recipes for now...

Moving fluids without pumps

I want to add something to move fluids from an input down easier.
Something similar to Tinkers constructs faucet.

Use case should be when you want to move fluids from a fluid container into another fluid container that's located below it.
Fluid should not be able to be moved up with this.
You should be able to pick up from bottom of container and side of container. If from side it should only be able to go down after, like how the faucet works.

this seems to be the only thing that comes to mind for now...
https://modrinth.com/mod/flopper
while mostly good it can only pick up from the bottom.

Just Zoom disable smooth camera

Before #25 is solved we should still configure just zoom.
Specifically we should disable the smooth camera.

disable enchantment table and trading

Only allow enchanting through books found as loot.
We also don't want trading

• disable enchantment table
• disable trading
• disable wandering trader

REI Crash with BuildingGadgets and Connectedness

Trying to view some type of building gadgets stuff seems to cause REI (and the game) to crash when Connectedness is installed.

Disabling either of the mods fixes the crash issues.
I'll try replacing connectedness with something else.

Terralith not downloaded with packwiz

Also happens with two other mods.

packwiz-installers logs say

(61/90) Skipped Let Me Despawn (wrong side)
(83/90) Skipped Terralith (wrong side)
(89/90) Skipped Leaves Be Gone (wrong side)

Teralith disable welcome message