Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-32765490-20180501161434/@comment-32765490-20180504014552

Okay, so is your job actually related to that?

By the way, there's a mod that I think you'd like. It's called Terrafirmacraft, and it changes Minecraft so drastically that the game's hardly recognizeable. It makes Minecraft about as realistic as it can be, and that includes the smelting of metals. It also changes health, adds nutrition, adds a water bar, adds gravity to a lot more blocks, improves gravity physics so blocks actually collect in piles adds a "cave-in" mechanic for when your mining, adds a whole bunch of mobs, removes wooden tools, removes stone pickaxes, and makes it a huge pain in the ### to even get to the level of being able to break stone.

You can't craft normally, and the lowest tier pickaxe is a bronze one, so you have to go through a painfully long process to craft a pick:

1. Pick up stones from the ground. 2. Knap stones into a shovel head. 3. Pick up a stick from the ground and combine the two to make a stone shovel. 4. Find a certain type of yellow flower, dig under it, and collect some clay. 5. knap a stone axe head and put it on a stick. 6. Cut down some trees. 7. Knap and craft a stone knife and use it to cut some grass for hay. 8. Mould the clay into a clay vessel. 9. Dig a one-block hole in the ground and place the clay vessel inside it. 10. Fill the hole with eight logs and eight hay. 11. Craft a fire-starter with two sticks, drop some sticks on the log-hay pile, 12. Set fire to the pile and wait for a couple Minecraft days. 13. Take out the newly-made ceramic vessel. 14. Repeat the process, except create a clay pickaxe mold instead and fire it in the pit kiln you made just then. 15. Search across the ground far and wide for copper and tin nuggets, until you have roughly nine units of copper and one unit of tin. 16. Put the nuggets in the ceramic vessel and create a whole new log-hay pile to fire it again. 17. After even more waiting, take out the ceramic vessel and pour the liquid bronze into the ceramic pickaxe mold. 18. Wait for it to cool, and craft it with a stick to made a bronze pickaxe. Contratulations! You have created a pickaxe!

Sorry for how long that was, but that only gives you an idea of how hard this mod makes it to create the simplest of tools. Don't even ask how much trouble it is to create an iron pick! I'll just say that it takes an insane amount of bronze and the creation of a charcoal pit, as well as some work with a hammer and other insane things that I find way too realistic. Terrafirmacraft might as well be its own game for the amount it changes Minecraft.