Forgewright

[0.4.1-alpha] (2026-05-29)

Bug-fix release on top of 0.4.0-alpha. Save-compatible with 0.4.0-alpha.

Fixes

• The mod now loads cleanly when Curios is not installed. The Tier 2 Brass Spectacles previously registered their Curios accessory binding unconditionally at startup, which crashed the game for players who did not have Curios installed.
• Uncured insulated copper wire is now gated behind Wire Drawing research rather than Rubber Curing.
• Recipe-locked chat messages are now clickable — clicking the research name opens its Codex entry.
• Cured wire (and any other dried output) can be taken directly off a Drying Rack with an empty-hand right-click; no need to break the rack or let items drop on the ground.
• The postman's cap no longer covers the entire face. It now sits as a crown and brim with the face visible.
• Quests whose objective was already satisfied before the quest was granted now auto-complete on activation — for example, crafting an item that a later quest asks for. Backed by vanilla statistics for craft, pickup, mine, and kill objectives.
• Quest rewards can no longer be lost. When the Letterbox and inventory are both full (or no Letterbox is bound), rewards are held and re-delivered on the next login and when a Letterbox is placed, instead of being dropped on the ground where they can despawn.

[0.4.0-alpha] (2026-05-28)

First CurseForge upload. Alpha pre-release: feature surface is in active development through later phases of the roadmap; saves are not guaranteed forward-compatible across alpha releases. Back up your worlds.

Tier 0: Foundation

• Rubber tree worldgen in jungle, swamp, and mangrove biomes. Distinct yellow-orange trunk; drips animate on tappable sides.
• Treetap, sticky resin, rubber, rubber sheet. Spile + Resin Collector drip-budget system survives partial-stripping and pre-patch saves.
• Flint Hammer, Mortar and Pestle, Crushed Ore + Ore Dust pipeline.
• Tin worldgen, bronze alloying (copper + tin), rubber-insulated copper wire.

Tier 1: Mechanical Age

• Water Wheels (3 sizes), Windmills (sail count + height scaling), Hand Crank.
• Stress Units (SU) network: wooden / iron / bronze shafts, gearboxes, clutches, brakes, speed controllers.
• Millstone, Saw Mill, Edge Runner Mill, Trip Hammer, Bellows, Archimedes Screw, Rope Drum.
• Coke Kiln (3x3x3 sealed multiblock): coal to coke and coal tar.
• Bloomery (bellows-fed): iron ore to wrought iron.
• Cementation Furnace: wrought iron + coke to steel.

Tier 2: Steam Age

• Brass Boiler multiblock (3x3x4); steam tracked by pressure and temperature.
• Steam Engines and Steam Turbines (multiblock) producing SU at real efficiency curves.
• Brass piping with pressure-loss-over-distance and instant-break under the Iron Pry Bar / Brass Wrench.
• Belt Drive blocks (standard and heavy-duty) with all-direction rotation via Iron Pry Bar and port-side spine indicators.
• Basic Chemistry Bench: soap, lye, quicklime, crude sulfuric acid.
• Distillation Column (variable-height multiblock; 5 fixed-height variants).
• Calciner, Cement Mixer, Edge-Runner Bed, Trip-Hammer Anvil.
• Ironworks Mk1 (historical-faithful air + water fluid model).
• Oil Pumpjack (surface-seep extraction).
• Alloys: brass, invar, electrum, zinc, nickel, silver.
• Concrete is grey-only and structural; the dyed concrete palette belongs to vanilla and stays there.
• Machine recipes accept any wood-plank type through the #minecraft:planks tag.

Workforce and Zone Markers

• Job Office workstation.
• Worker hierarchy: roles (Worker, Supervisor, Manager, Treasurer) on one axis, skills (Lumberjack, Farmer, Smelter, Postman, Engineer, and others) on a second axis.
• NPC visual variety: postman variants, role insignia layers, two body builds, 20 hero skins.
• Zone Marker family: Lumberyard, Cropfield, Pasture, Quarry. Each is an abstract zone marker with a planCycle / performAction override hook reused across the family.

Story, Quests, and Codex

• In-house Codex engine (markdown-backed, parchment theme). Replaces the retired GuideME integration.
• Research Map UI with cluster + barycenter layout, orthogonal routing cache, click-through to codex pages.
• Backbone hub-and-spoke quest design: Carpentry, Mechanical Breadth, the four primary correspondents' opening chains (Surveyor, Defense, Trade, plus Holloway's Engineering Bureau spine).
• Correspondence tab: letter archive for all four primary correspondents.
• Postman delivery system on the hero-skin NPCs.

Engineering Infrastructure

• Platform isolation layer: NeoForge wrapped under com.forgewright.platform; library mods (GeckoLib, Curios, JEI, LambDynamicLights) wrapped under com.forgewright.compat.*.
• ArchUnit baseline-frozen architecture rules. Direct NeoForge imports outside the platform layer fail the build beyond the frozen baseline.
• JUnit 5 unit-test surface for pure-logic code (fluid network, recipe codecs, orientation math).

Known Limitations

• Tiers 3 through 8 are not yet implemented. The codex documents the full roadmap, but only T0, T1, and most T2 content is currently playable.
• High Resolution texture packs are not yet published. The texture set is still iterating per tier; HD packs will appear as additional files on this CurseForge page once T3+ stabilises.
• JEI is an optional runtime dependency. Curios is optional (Engineer's Spectacles head slot). The mod loads cleanly without either.