Engineer`s Notes

You are an engineer, and this is your notebook. The world is quiet: the great machine called the Metronome has stopped and the ores are gone from the ground. Every volume you finish brings the world a little closer to life. Your goal is simple to say and long to achieve: restart the Metronome.

Engineer's Notes is a single-player tech journey for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge with around 160 mods, our own machines, a 63-chapter quest book and a built-in 3D guidebook.

Each volume opens the next

The journey is split into six volumes. Every mod has its own ladder of steps, from the simplest machine to the most powerful.

• Volume I. Create: the stone line, crushing, washing, belts and arms.
• Volume II. Oritech: cores, laser, atomic forge, oil and plastic.
• Volume III. AE2 and PneumaticCraft: storage, autocrafting, terminals, air, drones and pressure.
• Volume IV. Mekanism: chemistry, osmium and steel, the core and the reactor.
• Volume V. Draconic Evolution: from draconium to Chaos.
• Volume VI. "Machines of the Metronome": twelve multiblocks and the final restart.

Metal is built, not dug

Ores have been removed from the world. Metal comes from a chain of Create machines (gravel, crushing, washing), from veins found with a scanner, and from a separate ore branch. You do not dig for it, you build for it.

Every quest leads to the guidebook

The quest book has 63 chapters and more than 1100 quests. Each quest tells a short story, explains why you need the step and hints how to automate it, with a link to the guidebook page.

A guidebook inside the game

The built-in GuideME guidebook has 100 pages with 3D diagrams of machines and multiblocks, flow charts and two kinds of scenes: the structure and the finished machine.

A notebook that grows

Your Engineer's Book grows with you: a Notebook, then a Tablet, then a Crystal Codex and finally the Chrono-Tome. Each stage has its own window with your progress along the steps, the world beat and three module slots.

What makes the pack different

• World beat: after the first volumes the world answers and for a while speeds your machines up. Use it while it lasts.
• No ore veins in the ground: metal comes from the Create chain, scanner veins and a separate ore branch.
• Every quest is a short story with a reason, an automation hint and a link to the guidebook.
• Ladders of steps for every mod, from the simplest machine to the most powerful.
• Machine upgrades: accelerator, parallelizer, stabilizer and overdrive.
• Hunting Rig with creature cards and a Vein Well for metal.
• Own fluids and barrels: 11 fluids, each with its own barrel.
• Scrap to matter: a line from the Utilizer to 20 matter tiers and replicators.
• Twenty solar panels with a day-night power curve.
• The Engineer's Book and Resonance: four growth stages and four skill branches.

Four skill branches

Resonance is a skill window with four branches: body, mining, world and echo. Skills are raised with cores and shards that you craft yourself.

One style, many upgrades

Our own machines share one HiTech look: the Alloyer, Universal Press, Fluid Synthesizer, Hunting Rig, Crushing Complex, Vein Well, Weather Shrine, Soul Transformer, Evolution Chamber and more. Small machines accept upgrades: accelerator, parallelizer, stabilizer and overdrive.

From scrap to matter

A production line turns waste into liquid matter and then into matter of 20 tiers, from Inert Dust to Origin Prime. The Utilizer recycles scrap, five generators fill the tanks, four converters make matter, and the Liquid Matter Complex ties the chain together. The Singular and Quantum Replicators copy items for liquid matter without consuming the sample.

Twenty suns

Twenty solar panels in four branches: Create, Oritech, chemistry and Draconic, from the Andesite Heliograph to the Star of Creation. Output follows the time of day, from night to noon, so panels need storage and planning. The Solar Panel Complex stacks them and the Everlight Core works around the clock.

Our own items and fluids

The pack adds its own items: the Engineer's Books, skill cores, the Resonator and more. It also adds fluids of its own, each with its own barrel to carry and store it.

Twelve machines of the Metronome

The finale is twelve machines of the Metronome, large multiblocks built from your own work. When the last one starts, the world's heart beats again.

Supported languages

Quick start and FAQ

Where do I start?
Open the quest book. The story and first steps are there, and every quest links to a guidebook page.

Is it single-player?
Yes. The pack is built for single-player; multiplayer is not announced.

Where are the ores?
Removed from the world. Metal comes from the Create chain, from veins found with a scanner and from a separate ore branch.

The first launch is very long. Is that normal?
Yes. The game loads around 160 mods, so the first start takes a while. Wait for the main menu.

How do I switch the language of the guide and quests?
Choose the language in the game options. The quest book and the guidebook are available in English and Russian.

Can I add my own mods?
You can, but it is not supported: quests, the guidebook and recipes are made for the included mods.

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Loader: NeoForge 21.1.251
• RAM: 8 GB allocated recommended, 6 GB minimum (measured: about 3.5 GB heap in use after loading a world)
• Install: only through the CurseForge app. The first launch is long.

Mods and authors

All mods are downloaded through the CurseForge app. Thanks to every author.

Credits

• Idea, design and assembly: Angistrem
• Textures and interface: Angistrem