Earthworks: Construction Fleet

Dig. Haul. Build.

Earthworks: Construction Fleet brings a working construction yard to Minecraft 1.20.1. Build your machines in survival, fuel them, collect what you excavate, and finish the site with roads, signs, and lights.

Build your fleet

Craft the Construction Workshop, choose a vehicle, and inspect its rotating 3D preview. The material list shows what you need; one click assembles the finished machine from your inventory. Missing materials or a full output inventory never consume your parts.

The fleet includes:

• Tracked Excavator: dig with an aimed bucket or grade a strip ahead.
• Tracked Bulldozer: clear a five-wide face of earth.
• Asphalt Paver: lay loose asphalt over a prepared roadbed using material from cargo.
• Road Roller: compact that asphalt into finished road.
• DT-40 Dump Truck: haul 108 slots across two cargo pages, then tip the bed into a rear chest or onto the ground.
• ST-12 Service Truck: carry a larger fuel reserve and refuel your nearby machines.
• CX-08 Compact Excavator: a smaller, cheaper machine with lighter cargo and digging capacity.
• HD-70 Heavy Bulldozer: a larger seven-wide clearing machine with a bigger work budget, higher fuel cost, and slower travel.

Made for survival

Machines use craftable parts and ordinary materials. Coal, charcoal, and coal blocks power the fleet, and fuel stored in cargo feeds the engine automatically. Excavated drops go directly into vehicle cargo; a full cargo stops digging before the block is removed.

The driver dashboard shows live fuel and speed needles, load, work status, and your control bindings. Hold left-click to work, drive with WASD, or latch work with R for grading. Cargo has clear vehicle/player labels and a Take all button. Recover a parked machine with sneak + wrench, preserving its fuel and contents.

Finish the jobsite

The workshop also assembles stop signs, traffic cones, striped barriers, lamp posts, portable work lights, road lamps, and traffic lights. Lamps emit real light. Traffic signals have automatic intersection timing, manual colors, and a redstone red override. They are visual signals rather than automated traffic control.

Installation and beta notes

Requires Minecraft Java 1.20.1, Forge 47.4.0+ within 47.x, and Java 17. No other mods are required. For multiplayer, install the same Earthworks version on the server and every client. This release is for Forge.

Back up your world before updating, and keep only one Earthworks JAR in the mods folder. Existing Earthworks machine IDs, cargo, fuel, and ownership are preserved.

This is a beta: 30 automated server tests passed, and the screens/models were checked in a development world. Large modpack and protection-mod compatibility can vary. Digging uses normal iron-tier loot, is bounded per tick, and does not run unattended or load chunks. Vehicles currently have no durability wear. Performance depends on the terrain and server.

Created for dazbrjboi. Original vehicle meshes, textures, interface artwork, road models, and branding are included in this project. This is a standalone mod, not a modpack.