The Broken World Update

The Broken World Update

Something got out of a laboratory and it has been winning ever
since.

Fungal Infection: Spore is the heart of this pack. Everything
else — every cog, every reactor, every cannon — exists because
of it.

The infection

It is not a mob spawner. It is an opponent.

• It evolves. One kill starts an infected mob’s evolution
  timer. Seven kills starts hyper-evolution. An Infected Human
  that survives long enough becomes a Knight, a Griefer, or a
  Braiomil. Infected Pillagers become Howlers, Stalkers and
  Brutes. The longer you let it feed, the worse the thing that
  comes back.
• It takes you with it. Die, and an Infected Player spawns
  carrying your name into the world. Your own corpse becomes
  part of the problem.
• It rewrites the map. Stone, dirt, deepslate, sand, gravel,
  netherrack, soul sand, even end stone all have infested
  counterparts. Grass becomes mycelium. Territory you lose stays
  lost until you take it back.
• It builds. Proto Hiveminds chunkload their own position,
  wall themselves in flesh, spread madness through nearby
  players, and dispatch Vigils to raid. Let three of them
  establish and the world itself changes state.
• It calls in artillery. Wombs bank biomass until they can
  summon a Calamity — a 500 HP Howitzer, a 450 HP Leviathan in
  open water, a Hohlfresser tunnelling underneath you, or a
  Hindenburg carrying a radius-16 nuke. They break blocks. Your
  walls are a suggestion.
• It sounds like it. Spore’s music system replaces the
  vanilla soundtrack. Put headphones on.

The counterplay

The infection has real weaknesses, and the entire industrial
half of this pack is aimed at them.

• Cold kills it. Infected are weak to cold and will not
  spawn in cold biomes or the deep dark. A base in the snow is
  a defensible base.
• The Cryogenic Decontamination Unit cleans infested blocks
  back to their originals in a 20-block radius and lays down
  snow while it works. Reclaiming ground is a machine problem,
  which means it’s a Create problem.
• It starves. Cut the infection off from food and remains
  and it weakens on its own.
• Its corpses arm you. Mutated fiber, armor fragments,
  claws, tumors and cerebra build Living, Plated and Flesh
  exoskeletons, plus spears, cleavers, scythes, syringe guns
  and living weapons like the Bile Blaster and Acidic Assassin.

The arsenal

• Create, plus most of the ecosystem — Aeronautics for
  airships, Big Cannons with Advanced Technologies and Enhanced
  Shells, The Factory Must Grow, New Age, Deep Seas, Power Grid,
  Hypertubes, Armored Constructs, Gunsmithing, Copycats+ and
  more.
• Mekanism in full, with Generators, Tools, Turrets & Fences
  and More Processing.
• Immersive Engineering for the middle path.
• Superb Warfare and TACZ for firearms, Simple Planes
  and Immersive Aircraft for when the ground stops being an
  option.

Airships are not a novelty here. Everything below you is
infested.

Everything else

Terrain runs on Tectonic. Underground Bunkers and
Lootr give you somewhere to scavenge. Farmer’s Delight
and a full kitchen stack — Create: Central Kitchen, Create: Food,
Create: Winery, Brewin’ and Chewin’, plus Ocean’s, Veggies,
Fruits, Pizza and Pineapple Delight — because the infection
starves and you shouldn’t. Sophisticated Backpacks & Storage,
Jade, JEI, Simple Voice Chat, GraveStone with
Curios compat.