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Honorable mention: tech-focused Minecraft (Java!) mod packs (don't laugh), if that floats your boat

by rft 3y ago

willis936 3y ago
Java MC industrial mods have been the granddaddy of industrial games since 1.4.7. Nothing scratches the itch quite like a 4 story chemical plant with hundreds of regulated processes.
- herewulf 3y ago
  That sounds rather interesting. Link to some examples of said chemical plants?
  - willis936 3y ago
    I don't have any I can personally vet on the public internet. Most of what I've seen is on the GTCEu discord. Image searching "nomifactory" yields some stuff that looks about right. "Lawn base". https://i.redd.it/dpcixz3z60d81.png https://i.redd.it/dpcixz3z60d81.png Back in the 1.4.7 days the biggest packs out there were kitchen sink packs like MindCrack with GT3 being the biggest single mod. The gregtech family tree has grown substantially and the largest branches are much more intricate than what used to be around. On par with Krastorio2.
ladberg 3y ago
Included in most of the tech mod packs but deserving of a special mention is ComputerCraft, which allows you to program computers and robots in Lua that can interact with the Minecraft world!
- rft 3y ago
  CC is the reason I can write some Lua, at least after the initial intro when I was fumbling around in the TES 3 editor. I went down that rabbit hole and build some far too complex one-off things. One of them even called out to a PHP backend for a shared database. I think I started hacking on a system that could propagate updates between CC nodes in a sort of mesh network (wireless CC networks) before just using the database backend. Luckily I lost interest before writing a whole network layer.
csense 3y ago
The Factorio founder stated on Reddit that "Modded minecraft, mainly buildcraft/industrialcraft, was huge inspiration to create Factorio." (A link to that Reddit post is the first citation in Wikipedia's article on Factorio.) The entire factory game genre owes its existence to Minecraft mods.
jameshart 3y ago
Even unmodded Minecraft would belong on this list. Redstone contraptions and production automation can be part of base building in the basic survival game. The list has a section for Open-World Survival Sandboxes - Minecraft is one of the originators of that genre.
arc-in-space 3y ago
Yeah, the page says "The game that created the genre" about Factorio, which isn't really true - the factorio-style gameplay was preceeded and inspired by tech mods in Minecraft.
- imtringued 3y ago
  And the Minecraft mod packs have a much higher complexity than Factorio. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYSfDcbY0w0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYSfDcbY0w0
- solardev 3y ago
  Thank you. Corrected this.
solardev 3y ago
The list currently only has Steam games, but maybe it shouldn't? Up for discussion right now: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/discussions/15 https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...

Honorable mention: tech-focused Minecraft (Java!) mod packs (don't laugh), if that floats your boat

by rft 3y ago

Honorable mention: tech-focused Minecraft (Java!) mod packs (don't laugh), if that floats your boat

Java MC industrial mods have been the granddaddy of industrial games since 1.4.7. Nothing scratches the itch quite like a 4 story chemical plant with hundreds of regulated processes.

herewulf 3y ago
That sounds rather interesting. Link to some examples of said chemical plants?
- willis936 3y ago
  I don't have any I can personally vet on the public internet. Most of what I've seen is on the GTCEu discord. Image searching "nomifactory" yields some stuff that looks about right. "Lawn base". https://i.redd.it/dpcixz3z60d81.png https://i.redd.it/dpcixz3z60d81.png Back in the 1.4.7 days the biggest packs out there were kitchen sink packs like MindCrack with GT3 being the biggest single mod. The gregtech family tree has grown substantially and the largest branches are much more intricate than what used to be around. On par with Krastorio2.

ladberg 3y ago

Included in most of the tech mod packs but deserving of a special mention is ComputerCraft, which allows you to program computers and robots in Lua that can interact with the Minecraft world!

rft 3y ago
CC is the reason I can write some Lua, at least after the initial intro when I was fumbling around in the TES 3 editor. I went down that rabbit hole and build some far too complex one-off things. One of them even called out to a PHP backend for a shared database. I think I started hacking on a system that could propagate updates between CC nodes in a sort of mesh network (wireless CC networks) before just using the database backend. Luckily I lost interest before writing a whole network layer.

csense 3y ago

The Factorio founder stated on Reddit that "Modded minecraft, mainly buildcraft/industrialcraft, was huge inspiration to create Factorio." (A link to that Reddit post is the first citation in Wikipedia's article on Factorio.) The entire factory game genre owes its existence to Minecraft mods.

jameshart 3y ago

Even unmodded Minecraft would belong on this list. Redstone contraptions and production automation can be part of base building in the basic survival game. The list has a section for Open-World Survival Sandboxes - Minecraft is one of the originators of that genre.

arc-in-space 3y ago

Yeah, the page says "The game that created the genre" about Factorio, which isn't really true - the factorio-style gameplay was preceeded and inspired by tech mods in Minecraft.

imtringued 3y ago
And the Minecraft mod packs have a much higher complexity than Factorio. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYSfDcbY0w0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYSfDcbY0w0
solardev 3y ago
Thank you. Corrected this.

solardev 3y ago

The list currently only has Steam games, but maybe it shouldn't? Up for discussion right now: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/discussions/15 https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...