Mogwump's Alternate Recipes

This mod is very early in development, and doesn't have that many recipes yet.

If you an avid tech mod enthusiast, you have probably come across the terms "vertical scalability" and "horizontal scalability". Put simply, vertical scaling is making your one process go faster, whereas horizontal scaling is just building more.

If you have multiple large tech mods, they sort of act like different towers standing next to each other with a few bridges between them. You can get materials from one process to completely skip another process from a different mod, but you mostly progress in each mod individually.

This mod aims to tweak a few recipes to force you to delve deeper into certain mods, and make you automate things you wouldn't normally automate.

This will make progression more difficult and force you to utilise multiple mods' progression.

The intent is to make progression feel a bit more coherent in smaller, private packs where you don't want to put in the effort of going through every single item and adding custom recipes. This will also provide a few more automation/logistical challenges for a lot of mods due to increased complexity and resource demand.

Only the recipes for the mods installed will be loaded, so there won't be any broken or empty recipes.

For now, all recipes are in the data folder of the mod, and can thus be changed with KubeJS or similar tools. I may implement config options in the future though.

This mod shouldn't hurt performance any more than just using a few more kilo/megabytes of RAM, as any mod/datapack does anyway, since it doesn't add any functions or anything similar - just recipes.

This was intended for a personal modpack but I've generalised the recipes with load conditions so it can be used with whatever. I will likely update this in the future, but don't expect too many new recipes. Currently there are 15 total recipes, so not much.

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Also check out Recipe Integration for compatability between mods without changing progression!