Inventors

Progress from primitive tools and animal power to complex Create automation in a heavily integrated, quest-driven engineering modpack.

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge · Java 21 · Beta

The pitch

Inventors is not another pack that hands you a Create cogwheel on day one. Engineering has to be earned: you start with primitive survival and manual processing, graduate to animal-powered machinery, and only then unlock rotational automation. Every stage is stitched together with custom recipes and guided by quests.

Progression

1. Firstworks — reworked early survival: primitive tools, animal materials, and tougher first days.
2. The Quern — your first real workstation. Grind flour, work dough, and process materials by hand.
3. Animal power — Horse Power CE turns your livestock into your first mechanical power grid.
4. Create — rotational automation at last, extended by Slice & Dice, Enchantment Industry, Power Grid, Fluid Logistics, Extra Gauges, and more.
5. Industry — Silent Gear tooling, Productive Metalworks, Building Gadgets, and Sophisticated Storage carry you into the late game.

Key features

• Deliberately staged progression — nothing is free, everything connects
• Unified recipes and material flow across mods via custom KubeJS scripting
• FTB Quests chapter line that teaches every stage of the journey
• Season, worldgen, and biome overhauls (Serene Seasons, Terralith, Tectonic, Regions Unexplored)
• Farmer’s Delight cooking ecosystem and animal materials from Naturalist wildlife
• Performance-tuned out of the box (Sodium, ModernFix, FerriteCore)

Beta notice

Inventors is in active beta. Recipes, quests, and progression are still being balanced, and updates may change how your world plays. Keep world backups before updating.

Multiplayer

Every release ships a dedicated server pack with pre-tuned configs and start scripts for Windows and Linux. Host it yourself or use any CurseForge-capable host.

Support and feedback

• Bugs, crashes, and recipe problems: GitHub Issues

Credits

Created and maintained by NsTut (UpperMoon0) — author of Firstworks, Simply Screens, OpenUI MC, and NsTut Economy. Built on Create and its addon ecosystem, Horse Power CE, Farmer’s Delight and its addons, Silent Gear, the FTB suite, KubeJS, and many other excellent mods — all third-party mods remain the property of their respective authors.

Pack content is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and pack scripts/tooling under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 (see the repository LICENSE and LICENSE-CODE).