Grounded

🧍People

Blackroad gangs on the Overworld's roads and the Cinder Company, mining sulfur and ore in the volcano. There are no undead: the night is dangerous because of those who live by robbery.

🤖Machines

The legacy of a collapsed industrial project: high-altitude stations, automatons, drones. They are not evil but unfinished - running a protocol set by people who are gone.

🐾Animals

Real animals stay animals. Bones now come from animals, while machines drop scrap metal.

Language

The mod is written in Russian first and fully supports English. The MultiMC instance starts in Russian; switch under Options → Language.

A new world

Better start a new one: the Summits' terrain is made at generation, and in an old world the places already explored stay as they were.

Updating

Delete the old grounded-…jar from mods and put the new one there: the game will not start with both. Worlds are kept. What's new and every version are on the releases page.

Calling a craft

Build a 5×5 pad and stand on its centre. "They are coming for you" - stay for 3 seconds and the craft takes you. Step off before that and the flight is called off. The centre decides where to: a Control Block - the volcano, a Coordinate Receiver - the Summits.

Arrival

The first flight finds solid ground, and a moment later the same pad rises under you. It is built once: take it apart and you fix it yourself - there is no block farm. Later flights land on it. In the volcano, lava next to the pad sets into basalt.

Going back

Step off the arrival pad and onto its centre again - the craft brings you back to the pad you left from.

The way to the Summits

A Tracking Probe flies towards a stronghold. Every chest in its library holds a Coordinate Sensor - the part the Coordinate Receiver for the pad is built from.

Evacuation from the Summits

There is no exit portal. When the Summit Guard is put out of action, the podium's floor becomes an evacuation pad. The first time you get the flight recorder's log and the credits, then you are home; after that it is an ordinary flight back.

To the outer islands

There are no gateways. Instead, transfer pads rise on the main island after the Guard. Stand on the frame in the middle and a craft takes you to the outer islands, where the same pad appears. There and back as often as you like.

The compass gives the bearing, the quartz is the receiver's resonator, the wiring is the circuit. Throw it and the probe flies towards a stronghold. ender_eye

The centre of the pad to the Summits. The Coordinate Sensor is not crafted - it is found in stronghold libraries. lodestone

A cell in a shared warehouse: every player has their own, and any safe opens it. The probe keeps the link. ender_chest

The head of every robot, and it can be worn. A plain pumpkin can no longer be carved with shears. carved_pumpkin

A pumpkin over a torch is just a lamp: no face, and it builds no robots. jack_o_lantern

Phosphor powder behind glass. glowstone

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A fuel rod over phosphor powder, instead of chorus fruit. end_rod

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Coal and gunpowder: it burns with a sulfur flame. soul_torch

The same flame in a campfire. soul_campfire

The medium a mod is written to: paper and a copper contact instead of leather. book

The bench where mods are installed on gear. enchanting_table

A rack of flasks over a burner, for making compounds. brewing_stand

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The prefab panels of the high-altitude stations - from stone and iron. purpur_block

Three carrots pressed into a briquette and wrapped in gold foil: more filling than fresh ones, and it keeps. The compound of night vision is made of it too - carrots carry carotene. golden_carrot

An extract of three slices in a vial under a gold cap - the raw material of the compound of healing. Not food. glistering_melon_slice

A ration in gold foil. The recipe is the old one: the ingots round the apple are the wrapping. It puts you back on your feet, and it is the ransom paid for a captive. golden_apple

Combat Ration - a ration from the project's stores, hazard stripes on its pack. It cannot be crafted, only found. enchanted_golden_apple

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The only item the mod adds itself. Thugs, desert raiders, river scavengers, captives and the Scorched drop it instead of rotten flesh.

Nine nuggets make an emerald, as with iron and gold.

Held in hand, it saves you when you are about to be put out of action: gets you back on your feet, heals and protects. totem_of_undying

Mods

Gear is fitted with mods. Mod is the consumable, a Mod Cartridge the medium, a Written Cartridge a finished mod, a Cartridge Rack powers the Modification Bench. Experience is data: Data Fragments, the Data Cell. The Service Bench and the Reset Bench are benches.

Wiring

Redstone is Wiring: boards and wires of the collapsed project, dug out of the rock. A single wire lies as a pad. Signal Torch, Electric Lamp.

Compounds

A Compound (potion) is made on a Chemistry Station: base, thrown and aerosol kinds. The effects are chemistry - invisibility, for one, became camouflage.

Stations

A Power Station is built around a Power Core and powers everyone's gear nearby. The Underwater Station does the same under water; its core is the Sea Core.

Put out of action

The player never dies but is put out of action - and returns to the game at the spawn point. Animals and the world's people die as before: they do not come back.

Assembly capsules

The *_spawn_egg items are capsules: they assemble a machine or release a creature. Each carries a portrait of what is inside.