⚙️ PolyTech (v3.5.0)

🖥️ Server-side tech + automation • Fabric API • Polymer • Minecraft 1.21.11
⚡ Adds an energy network and machines for resource processing + automated crafting.

✨ Key Features

⚡ Energy System

• Uses Power Units (PU) over a ➕ 6-way connectable Cable grid
• Upgradeable tiers: LV → MV → HV → EV
• 📡 Dimension-wide wireless power using 🎨 16 color channels

🏭 Industrial Machines

• 🔥 Generator: burns furnace fuels to produce power
• 🪨 Macerator: grinds items into dust
• 🧱 Compressor: makes plates and blocks
• 🔥 Electric Furnace

🤖 Automation

• 🧠 Digital Crafter (endgame) connects to a 🎨 Digital Chest color channel
• 📋 Scans + executes crafting recipes automatically
• 🎛️ All machines support per-face I/O: ⬅️ Input • ➡️ Output • ➖ Normal • 🚫 Disabled

🪄 Dynamic Visuals & GUIs

• ✨ Floating holographic text shows status, progress, and power warnings
• 🧪 Runtime-generated resource pack (custom models + GUIs)
• 🖱️ Drag-and-drop slot UI

🔗 Integrations

• 📦 Requires Digital Chest for the Digital Crafter
• 🚰 Uses Polymer Pipes for face configuration + item transport integration

⚙️ PolyTech

🖥️ Server-side tech + automation • Fabric API • Polymer • Minecraft 1.21.11
⚡ Adds energy networks, industrial machines, quarry systems, villager processing, and large-scale automation.

✨ Key Features

⚡ Energy System

• Uses Power Units (PU) over a ➕ 6-way connectable Cable grid
• Upgradeable tiers: LV → MV → HV → EV
• 📡 Dimension-wide wireless power with 🎨 16 color channels
• 🔋 Battery Boxes for energy storage and distribution
• ☀️ Solar Panels for renewable power generation

🏭 Industrial Machines

• 🔥 Generator: burns furnace fuels to produce power
• 🪨 Macerator: grinds items into dust
• 🧱 Compressor: makes plates and compressed materials
• 🔥 Electric Furnace
• 👥 Villager Grinder: processes villagers into Villager Souls
• 🧬 Villager Combiner: combines villagers for trait optimization

⛏️ Quarry Automation

• ⛏️ Quarry Block with moving drill head for frame-based mining
• 🧨 Chunk Destroyer for large-scale chunk-by-chunk excavation
• 🧱 Quarry Frames to define and visualize mining areas
• 📦 Digital Chest compatibility for direct mined-item deposit

🤖 Automation

• 🧠 Digital Crafter (endgame) connects to a 🎨 Digital Chest color channel
• 📋 Scans and executes crafting recipes automatically
• 🎛️ Machine-specific GUIs for control and monitoring
• 🔀 All machines support per-face I/O: ⬅️ Input • ➡️ Output • ➖ Normal • 🚫 Disabled

📦 Materials & Progression

• 🪙 New processed resources including Iron Dust, Gold Dust, and Copper Dust
• 🧱 New compressed materials including Iron Plates, Gold Plates, and Copper Plates
• 👻 Villager Soul as a specialized advanced resource
• 📘 PolyTech Handbook for in-game documentation and progression help

🪄 Dynamic Visuals & GUIs

• ✨ Floating holographic text shows status, progress, and power warnings
• 🧪 Runtime-generated resource pack with custom models and GUIs
• 🖱️ Drag-and-drop slot UI
• 🧰 Expanded machine interfaces for more advanced systems

🔗 Integrations

• 📦 Digital Chest support for automation and quarry output
• 🚰 Polymer Pipes support for item and fluid transport
• 📚 Polydex integration for recipe browsing with custom categories

🛠️ Summary

PolyTech is growing into a much larger automation mod focused on energy, industrial processing, quarry mining, villager-based progression, and cross-mod infrastructure — all with server-side Polymer compatibility for vanilla-friendly multiplayer play.