Tarbound – Soul of the Machine

Tarbound is a mod about automating and storage at it’s heart.  A replacement for high tech mods in a low tech world.  If you’ve ever settled for another very simple storage/crafting mod because you didn’t want to throw in glowing alien tech, this might be a good fit for you.  The mod focuses on the radio, tar, reliquaries and tar. (yes the second tar was intentional… it’s the theme of the mod) Oh and antennas…

(antenna’s can be used to connect inventories that are fiddly to get to, stacking antennas makes the radius larger, and changes the look from rabbit ears to a 3 block tall cell phone tower)

Simplest part… craft a bucket of tar with some coal and a bucket (will be working on better recipes and mod integration for this recipe in the future) a radio (scrying font), throw down some barrels, pour the tar so that it touches the barrels, and place the scrying front within 3 blocks of the tar.  This will expose the inventory of the barrels nearby.  Throw in a crafting table to the tar, and you’ve got yourself crafting and inventory in one.  

Want autocrafting, look into the reliquary and contracts.  Bind a reliquary to your scrying font and place it above a machine (or barrel if using multiblock machines/etc) and make sure the output is in the pool (network)

Right now we’re looking at simplest level costs, with feedback I will adjust costs, but just know this… not server friendly for non-cheatyness, as the reliquaries provide furnaces with soul fire, and machines with FE.  The only cost is candles.

Candles can be crafted without bees, with bees, your choice.  Slaughter a cow or pig and grab some tallow.  Or if you have create and prefer a vegan friendly solution, mix some seeds over a heated basin and get plant wax.  

Candles represent the cost of keeping the spirits bound to the real world, when you run out, the machine spirits won’t be able to answer to your call.  

The Machine Spirit Hungers

The mod is designed and produced by me, but with the assistance of AI coding assistant (claude)