Preface
From the FTB wiki, Avaritia is a "parody mod created because of the power creep problem" and adds recipes that "one can only craft after playing several weeks or months". So what happens if a mod parodies a parody?
Main Content
Xavitia takes inspiration from Avaritia's philosophy and expands it to the necessity of grinding every craftable item in the game over and over again. Similar to Avaritia's endgame items and tools, very extremely powerful items can be crafted as rewards. Xavitia contains a very simple progression system, while also being able to played in a vanilla context without any technology mods.
Functional Blocks
Galaxy Compressor
The main focus of the mod, where every item must be fed into this block to meet the galaxy's conditions. If no item pipe is present, a simple vanilla hopper setup is enough to both insert and output items. Progress will also be saved on breaking the galaxy compressor and placing it elsewhere. Multiple galaxy compressors can exist at a time, but their progress is not shared.
Galaxy Freezer
The Galaxy Freezer is a multiblock that allows the freezing of Galaxy Ingots. In order for a Galaxy Freezer to be functional, the multiblock needs to be complete as well as contain cooling elements, such as vanilla ice and ice variants. If a Galaxy Freezer is incomplete and a wrench is in hand, a preview will appear to indicate the proper blocks and positions.
Galaxy Connector
The Galaxy Connector allows the Galaxy Compressor to have more inputs and output connections, as likely more recipes are automated and parallel inputting is introduced. An unlimited amount of additional connection blocks can be placed, creating its own small "network" of acceptable inputs.
Here is an example of Modern Industrialization and Applied Energistics 2 pipes exporting items into the Galaxy Compressor through a mountain of Galaxy Connectors.
Functional Items
Galaxy Ingot
This is the culmination of crafting every item in the game and completing the requirements in the Galaxy Compressor. However there is an instability period of 10 seconds once it leaves the Galaxy Compressor, similar to the Unstable Ingot, then it explodes!
Block of Galaxy Ingots
Similar to the Galaxy Ingot, there is an instability period, but this time 5 seconds! You cannot put this item in a Galaxy Freezer!
Galaxy Tools and Items
These are very powerful items, each providing very strong manipulation to the world.
- Weather Controller: Allows cycling between weather.
- Day Controller: Allows toggling between day and night.
- Mob Annihilator: Instantly kills every entity in a block radius.
- Item Fabricator: An item that allows unlimited item slection and usage.
- Galaxy Pickaxe: A pickaxe embued with Fortune Integer.MAX, destroys any block in a 7x7x7 chunk, with the ability to toggle auto-smelting and silk touch.
- Galaxy Axe: A axe that will break trees and leaves, while also replanting them.
- Galaxy Hoe: A hoe that can convert any block into tilled farmland and full grown crops, with infinite harvesting.
- Galaxy Shovel: A shovel that can break dirt in a very large radius.
- Galaxy Sword: A sword that instantly kills any entity with Looting Integer.MAX.
- Galaxy Multitool: A combination of the Galaxy tools.
- Reality Shifter: Reverts the current standing chunk to its original generation state.
- Free Flight: Grants Creative Mode flight.
- sv_cheats 1; noclip: Grants spectator mode for 15 seconds.
- Chunk Destroyer: Completely removes the current standing chunk.
The FINAL reward
This item grants the holder literal Creative mode and elevated server commands. This is, of course, configurable.
Decorative Blocks
There are unique blocks heavily inspired by Shadered to create a screen-space effect that peers to an endless galaxy void.
Configuration / Fun Fact
Through simple configuration, other mods/recipes, and the availability of automation, this mod can be completed in a range of a few days, or not in your own lifetime.
Assume you can automate any item at 1 billion items per second. If the item requirement is set to the max integer long value of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 items, it would require more than 875,000 years to meet the Galaxy Compressor requirement. Tread carefully!
Compatibility
Due to the unique nature of the "galaxy" rendering effect on both the functional, items, and decorative blocks for the screen-space effect, AI was used to debug and fix rendering compatibilities with major optimization rendering mods and other invasive content mods, such as Sable. The optimization mods in question come from this guide and this guide. Specifically, the rendering mods supported and tested are:
Iris Shaders
This mod has extremely primitive support with Iris and shader packs. At the moment, the in-world effect of blocks most of the time will render properly, while galaxy items in hand will not, leading to the current solution of simply using fallback vanilla textures. Depending on the shader pack also used, the appearance of the screen-space effect may vary. Future updates will likely focus on improving shader support.
Recipe and Mod Support
Mods that utilize vanilla crafting table, furnaces, and stonecutter recipes will automatically detected and be an item requirement. Upon request, additional recipes processing types from other mods can be supported. The following processing recipe types/processing chains that are supported are:
- Minecraft vanilla recipes
- Applied Energistics 2
- AvaritiaNeo
- Create
- Modern Industrialization
- PackagedAuto
- PackagedAvaritia
Credits and Inspirations
- Avaritia - main concept inspiration.
- Applied Energistics 2 - base starting texture for the Galaxy Compressor GUI.
- Completionist's Index - similarity in a "completionist" way.
- Extra Utilities - unstable ingot timer countdown and eventual explosion.
- Shadered - screen-space effect idea, however a completely different implementation of it.
- GT:NH - the amount of hours required to reach the final goal.
- Gregtech 6 - machine textures licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License.
- Space 3d - galaxy screen-space effect textures.
