This modpack is awesome, because it allows you to take your manual tasks like smelting to a whole other level. Not only it allows you to create actual energy factories like in real life (this mod generally is based off of real life btw) using generators from fuel-fired furnaces, geothermal things to even nuclear reactors, to power awesome machines, such as not only better furnaces, but even cool things like e.g. grinders, which allow you to basically double it and give it to the next person ore lumps by turning them into 2x dust that's smeltable to ingots! You can also connect those using pipeworks to make actual automatic machines that can do whatever you can imagine.
The long process of going through the materials, machines and generally exploring the mod is also really fun, but not as fun as it could be. Why? Because let me introduce an issue of this mod:
It lacks good documentation
The manual doesn't guide you step by step at all, and makes you feel like it just talks about random unordered things. E.g. after introducing metal processing techniques (which really should be after telling you how to even create such machines in the first place), it already jumps into stuff about uranium enrichment, which is basically about the endgame freaking nuclear reactor. It doesn't even have anything about starting to build machines, really. Atleast while the manual is bad, you can still look at guides from other sources, such as games like the mesecons lab, which can show you some example technic builds and how it works. I heard you can also check out servers, because some offer technic tutorials. Really, the documentation still has some decent information about e.g. ores, but can't teach a beginner fluently at all.
Another piece of advice: Avoid the technic plus mod, because it is really technic minus today, since it seems unmaintained. It was last updated in 2021 at the time of writing this.
Edit: They're planning to release another version of technic plus, but you can still try out technic plus beta, which won't actually be that buggy, even though they say 'beta', according to the thread in the 1st link in this sentence. I actually use it today, and I recommend it for its awesome feaatures, such as basic HV machines (grinder, furnace and compressor)!
So, in conclusion, the technic mod is great all around, except the documentation, which really could've been improved, especially because of how complex this mod can be.
This modpack is awesome, because it allows you to take your manual tasks like smelting to a whole other level. Not only it allows you to create actual energy factories like in real life (this mod generally is based off of real life btw) using generators from fuel-fired furnaces, geothermal things to even nuclear reactors, to power awesome machines, such as not only better furnaces, but even cool things like e.g. grinders, which allow you to basically double
it and give it to the next personore lumps by turning them into 2x dust that's smeltable to ingots! You can also connect those using pipeworks to make actual automatic machines that can do whatever you can imagine.The long process of going through the materials, machines and generally exploring the mod is also really fun, but not as fun as it could be. Why? Because let me introduce an issue of this mod:
It lacks good documentation
The manual doesn't guide you step by step at all, and makes you feel like it just talks about random unordered things. E.g. after introducing metal processing techniques (which really should be after telling you how to even create such machines in the first place), it already jumps into stuff about uranium enrichment, which is basically about the endgame freaking nuclear reactor. It doesn't even have anything about starting to build machines, really. Atleast while the manual is bad, you can still look at guides from other sources, such as games like the mesecons lab, which can show you some example technic builds and how it works. I heard you can also check out servers, because some offer technic tutorials. Really, the documentation still has some decent information about e.g. ores, but can't teach a beginner fluently at all.
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Another piece of advice: Avoid the technic plus mod, because it is really technic minus today, since it seems unmaintained. It was last updated in 2021 at the time of writing this.
Edit: They're planning to release another version of technic plus, but you can still try out technic plus beta, which won't actually be that buggy, even though they say 'beta', according to the thread in the 1st link in this sentence. I actually use it today, and I recommend it for its awesome feaatures, such as basic HV machines (grinder, furnace and compressor)!
So, in conclusion, the technic mod is great all around, except the documentation, which really could've been improved, especially because of how complex this mod can be.