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Modpack Tech Age [techage]

This modpack covers all necessary and useful mods to be able to use techage. All mods have their own README.txt. For further information please consult these files.

This modpack contains:

  • techage: The main mod
  • ta4_jetpack: A Jetpack for techage with hydrogen as fuel and TA4 recipe
  • ta4_paraglider: A Paraglider for techage with TA4 recipe
  • ta4_addons: A Touchscreen like the TA4 display, but with additional commands and features
  • autobahn: Street blocks and slopes with stripes for faster traveling (the only need of bitumen from techage)
  • compost: The garden soil is needed for the TA4 LED Grow Light based flower bed
  • signs_bot: For many automation tasks in TA3/TA4 like farming, mining, and item transportation
  • hyperloop: Used as passenger transportation system in TA4
  • techpack_stairway: Ladders, stairways, and bridges for your machines
  • minecart: Techage transportation system for oil and other items
  • towercrane: Simplifies the building of large techage plants
  • basic_materials: Needed items for many recipes
  • stamina: The "hunger" mod from "minetest-mods"
  • unified_inventory: Player's inventory with crafting guide, bags, and more.
  • tubelib2: Necessary library
  • networks: Necessary library
  • safer_lua: Necessary library
  • lcdlib: Necessary library
  • doclib: Necessary library
  • nanobasic: Optional library with support for the BASIC programming language (TA3 terminal)

Techage Manual

All techage manuals (EN/DE) are available ingame (craft the 'TA Construction Board') or use the manual on GitHub.

Licenses

All mods have their own licenses. See the license files in the subfoldes. The modpack itself has the same license as the Mod Techage.

Further Dependencies

Required: Minetest Game

ta4_jetpack requires the modpack 3d_armor. 3d_armor is itself a modpack and can't be integrated into the techage modpack.

History

2026-03-27

Updated Mods:

  • techage:

    • Bump version to V1.24
    • Add TA5 Digitizer and TA5 Control Unit with Lua/Beduino command interface
    • Add TA5 Cordless Screwdriver with preserve/restore feature
    • Add TA5 SSD as intermediate Digitizer ingredient
    • Add per-player active quarry limit (#65)
    • Add binary AND, OR, and XOR operators for NanoBasic
    • Add support for the mod too_many_stones
    • Add configurable basalt gravel sieving (Evgeniy)
    • Add Smartshop mod compatibility (Evgeniy)
    • Add no_silktouch group to burning lighters (Niklp09)
    • Display names for connected TA5 Teleport Blocks
    • Allow to take all items from a chest
    • Settable volumes for oven (acmgit)
    • Changed capacity of oven (acmgit)
    • Ensure generators are oriented correctly (Thomas--S)
    • Add missing valid sides registrations (Thomas--S)
    • Fix flywheel texture (Thomas--S)
    • Avoid unnecessary texture alpha blend for reactor shell (Thomas--S)
    • Fix injector issues (Thomas--S)
    • Replace square brackets with parenthesis for formspec image (Thomas--S)
    • Update translation script for stable sort order (Thomas--S)
    • Translation maintenance: add missing German translations (Thomas--S)
    • doorcontroller2: check node inventory before use (standmit)
    • Fix smartshop compatibility (standmit)
    • Restore French manual files (François Delpierre)
    • Improve TA5 fusion reactor error messages, manuals, and pump wrench menu
    • Thermal Storage: improve validation error messages
    • Controller: show error on insufficient experience points, add /help descriptions
    • Improve shell shape error message: show number of magnets with complete shell
    • Fix #215 (ta4_movecontroller stuck)
    • Fix #232 (Displays unable to write to row 10+ with string-type payload)
    • Fix #233 (Unable to read state of buttons 1 or 2 of 4x button using Beduino)
    • Fix #234 (Digging a pole-mounted yellow traffic light drops a black one)
    • Fix #242 (Nitrogencylinder = Hydrogencylinder)
    • Fix #245 (Pipe and pump water to boiler for TA3 Coal Power Station)
    • Fix #246 (TA4 Fuel Cell loses H2 charge when moved)
    • Fix #247 (TA2 Quarry sound keeps playing after turned off)
    • Fix #248 (TA4 Manual typos about Hydrogen)
    • Fix #249 (TA3 Chest + Injector + Furnace items lost)
    • Fix #250 (TA3 Booster name missing in Power Terminal)
    • Fix #157 (Admin Forceload Block Overview)
    • Fix #264 (Document ability to change radius of ta4 player detector)
    • Fix #267 (Crash: remove dofile of .test/ files not present in repo)
    • Fix everness bug (#27)
    • Fix growlight bug
    • Fix: re-register node number after cordless screwdriver placement
    • Fix: remove semicolons from textarea formspec strings in TA5 manuals
  • signs_bot:

    • Fix farming crop grow bug
    • Fix compatibility with everness mod hammer functionality (François Delpierre)
    • Bugfix
  • minecart:

    • Add Russian translation (randomei)
  • hyperloop:

    • Prevent deprecation warning (use initial_properties)
  • ta4_jetpack:

    • Fix bug with almost empty fuel tank
  • ta4_addons:

    • Use [png for matrix screen (Thomas--S)
  • towercrane:

    • Add support for non-default games using xcompat (maplemedley)
  • unified_inventory:

    • Support multiple craft outputs
    • Preserve metadata when using "Give me:"
    • Fix accessibility of the first and second inventory categories (z-op)
    • Include implicit tools in tools category (The4codeblocks)
    • Multiple bug fixes and improvements
    • Extend and improve the API documentation
    • Log warning for recipes that were registered too late
    • Update translation files
    • Add Danish translation (jeppebundsgaard)

2025-07-25

Updated Mods:

  • techage:

    • Fix misspelled words (ghost)
    • Fix the recipe output name for aluminum handrail recipe (jfanjoy)
    • Add CRT monitor
    • TA4 Furnace Heater listed wrong on TA3 Power Terminal
    • Add TA4 displays
    • Update spelling of German manuals (mineplayer)
    • Revise Lua controller
    • Fixes gravel ore probability when using the everness mod (acarrico)
    • Add a recipe to convert iron ingot to steel using the industrial furnace (jfanjoy)
    • Add move2 command from move controller to fly controller (jfanjoy)
    • Add new movecontroller2
    • Fix bug with values and junctions behind the ta4_reactor
    • Add ta1 iron block recipes and texture (jfanjoy)
    • Improve Lua controller formspec
    • Add NanoBasic daytime functions
    • Add reset command to fly controller (jfanjoy)
    • Improve movecontroller2
    • Improve doorcontroller2
    • Fix #199 (Everness gravel sieve not working)
    • Add observation window block
    • Adds nitrogen, ammonia, tnt chemistry (Evgeniy)
    • Add French translation (François Delpierre)
    • TA4 Doser: Fix farming:salt recipe
  • safer_lua:

    • Add feature to control runtime via credits
  • signs_bot:

    • Fix command crash when running "print " (Niklp09)
    • Add support for shop mod
    • Fix bot command and status bugs
    • Add support for shop mod
    • Filling of bot slots improved
    • Prevent the AND gate from accepting a signal while the bot is running
    • Falling nodes don't fall when placed by signs bot
  • stamina:

    • Fix Deprecated 'hud_elem_type' field warning
    • Merge changes from minetest-mods/stamina
  • nanobasic:

    • Chance trace mode
    • Improve compiler
    • Add SGN function
    • Add ELSEIF statement
  • lcdlib:

    • Fix bug when placeing wallmounted displays

2025-01-27

Updated Mods:

  • nanobasic:
    • Allow to run techage without proper installation of nanobasic

2025-01-24

Updated Mods:

  • techage:
    • Add Traffic Lights and accessories
    • Add TA4 water remover device
    • Improve door and fly controller
    • Fix several issues
    • Add Everness support #187 (ore sieving)
    • Add BASIC mode to TA3 terminal (requires to install nanobasic. See: mods/techage_modpack/nanobasic/README.md)
    • Improve russian translation (z-op)
    • Many bug fixes by Niklp09, joe7575, and others
    • Add pre-assignment menu to the furnace
    • Improve recording for move/fly/turn controllers
    • Allow to move the TA4 terminal with the assembly tool
    • Add aluminum recipes for techpack_stairway items (jfanjoy)
    • Change forceload block menu
  • signs_bot:
    • Support ethereal and moretrees saplings (Niklp09)
  • minecart:
    • Try to fix rare carts sound playing to all users (Niklp09)
  • unified_inventory:
  • nanobasic:
    • Newly added

2024-08-25

Updated Mods:

  • techage:
    • Fix bug 'TA2 boiler work without requiring boiler'
    • Improve move/fly controller
    • Add replacement to electricmeter recipe (Eternal-Study)
    • Fix injector bug
    • Fix flowers detection when using ethereal (Niklp09)
    • Fix issue #175 (TA3 Furnace Does not implement replacements in recipes)
    • Water to Salt + River Water Recipe, add Salt.lua (Eternal-Study)
    • Add new button commands
    • Fix bug with injector with a full 8x2000 chest
    • Fix forceload block formspec list (Niklp09)
    • Improve techage:ta4_power_box node_box (Niklp09)
    • Allow to move the TA4 terminal with the assembly tool (#165)
    • add aluminum recipes for techpack_stairway items (jfanjoy)
    • Replace techage_invisible.png w/ engine provided blank.png (Niklp09)
    • adds a new chat command and column to forceload formspec (jfanjoy)
    • Fix bug #24 (Energy Storage respawn red gravel infinit)
    • Allow TA3 screwdriver to get repaired by anvil (Niklp09)
    • Add translations and fix bug with growlight
    • Add manual for pt-BR language (hephaestus-br)
    • Add reverse mode for ta5 pump
    • Fix assembly tool bug with non-empty chests
  • hyperloop:
    • add luacheck workflow
    • Change code so that no luacheck warnings are issued
    • Fix set_look_horizontal bug
    • Prevent 'deprecated warnings'
  • signs_bot:
    • Fix to Fall_Down when non-walkable nodes are in path (Eternal-Study)
    • Fix to fall_down (Eternal-Study)
    • hold aux1 to invert signal (blaboing)
    • Fix flowers detection when using ethereal (Niklp09)
    • Fix bug #38 (Colon in print command breaks jumps)
  • tubelib2:
    • Replace deprecated meta:set_string(*, nil) calls (Niklp09)
  • lcdlib:
    • Use initial_properties for text entity (Niklp09)
  • safer_lua:
    • Add safe variants for string.rep() and string.find()

2023-11-26

Updated Mods:

  • tubelib2:
    • Improve pipe/tube placement
  • doclib:
    • Add a NIL check to prevent crashes
  • minecart:
    • Replace some global_exists by get_modpath
    • Fix crash when using techage (Niklp09)
  • techage:
    • Fix crash with collider magnets
  • basic_materials:
    • Update to current version

2023-11-05

Updated Mods:

  • techage v1.18:
    • see readme.md
  • ta4_jetpack:
    • Fix translation issue
  • minecart:
    • Fix bug with missing techage mod
  • signs_bot:
    • Fix bug #36 (pattern/copy 5x3 is off center)
    • Adapt bot box for techage assembly tool
    • Escape equal sign in german translation (Niklp09)
  • autobahn:
    • Add support for player_monoids (Niklp09)
  • compost:
    • User proper player creative check (Niklp09)
    • Fix drop bug
  • techpack_stairway:
    • Add stairways without handrails
  • networks:
    • Add support for colored nodes by unifieddyes
    • Improve debugging tool

2023-08-25

The mod doclib is a new hard dependency !

Updated Mods:

  • techage v1.17:
    • see readme.md
  • autobahn:
    • Make motor sound mono (Niklp09)
  • lcdlib v1.02:
    • see readme.md
  • signs_bot v1.13:
    • see readme.md
  • minecart v2.05:
    • see readme.md
  • mod 'doc' removed
  • mod 'doclib' v1.00 added
  • mod 'datastorage' removed

2023-05-09

Updated Mods:

  • techage v1.15:
    • see readme.md
  • hyperloop:
    • Remove intlib support

2023-03-05

Updated Mods:

  • techage v1.11:
    • see readme.md
  • signs_bot v1.12:
    • Add bot command 'set_param2'
  • minecart v2.04:
    • New API functions added
    • EOL blanks removed
  • hyperloop:
    • Fix some bugs
  • networks v0.13:
    • New API function networks.power.get_storage_percent added
  • autobahn:
    • fix reset_player_privs bug
  • basic_materials:
    • Switched back to tag "2021-01-30"

2023-02-04

Updated Mods:

  • techage:
    • V1.10 (see readme.md)
  • signs_bot:
    • Fix fall_down on rail bug
  • minecart:
  • hyperloop:
    • Fix some bugs

2022-12-31

Updated Mods:

  • techage:
    • Add wafer recipe with 'mesecons_materials:silicon'
    • Add TA5 AI Chip II to the manual
    • Fix movecontroller wrench menu bug
    • Improve chemical reactor description
    • Improve player detector wrench menu
    • Fix 'count' command bug: default value is 0 again
    • Movecontroller: Allow moving blocks through unloaded areas
    • Player detector: Add wrench menu to configure search radius
    • Movecontroller: Place unloaded flying blocks to dest pos
    • Furnace: Don't use items filled from the top as fuel
    • Manual improvements for the move controller
    • Make a use for cotton seeds #104
    • Merge pull request #102 from Niklp09/mvps2
    • Fix broken mesecons detection
    • Fix bug with TA1 hammer used by pipeworks nodebreaker
    • Merge pull request #99 from Niklp09/mvps
    • Register mvps stopper for complex techage nodes
    • Merge pull request #98 from Niklp09/glow_gravel
    • Fix hammer bauxite bug
    • Fix mesecons_materials bug
    • Add cracking recipe for isobutane
    • Merge pull request #96 from Niklp09/ethereal
    • Grind ethereal leaves to leave powder
    • Improve manual, fix bug in electrolyzer menu description
  • networks (Add API function used by the techage tool)
  • safer_lua (Limit code execution time for recursive function calls (#3 by Thomas--S))
  • tubelib2:
    • Merge pull request #18 from IFRFSX/cn
    • Add chinese translation
    • Merge pull request #17 from Niklp09/master
    • Fix minor translation issue
  • signs_bot:
    • Fix stop command bug
    • Fix #23 (Water is moved up when a bot builds upward from under water)
    • Fix bug remove foot after move_up command
  • hyperloop (Fix elevator area protection bug)

2022-09-24

Updated Mods:

  • techage (fix database backend bug, further bugfixes and improvements)
  • lcdlib (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • signs_bot (add new commands)
  • networks (add 'networks.liquid.get_liquids')
  • ta4_paraglider (Fix bug "Add nil player check in paraglider")
  • unified_inventory (Add support for colored items (#213))

2022-08-17

Updated Mods:

  • techage (fix "Invalid field use_texture_alpha" errors)

2022-08-06

Updated Mods:

  • autobahn (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • compost (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • hyperloop (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings, add french translation)
  • tubelib2 (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • networks (Add improvement for liquid handling)
  • signs_bot (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • minecart (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • safer_lua (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • techpack_stairway (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • techage (many improvements, see: https://github.com/joe7575/techage/commits/master)
  • ta4_jetpack (Fix the 3d_armor _material issue)
  • datastorage (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)
  • stamina (fix MT5.5+ "deprecated" warnings)

2022-07-11

Updated Mods:

  • techage V1.08 with improvements and bug fixes
  • signs_bot
  • tubelib2
  • unified_inventory
  • lcdlib

2022-01-28

Updated Mods:

  • techage (fusion reactor added)

2022-01-04

Updated Mods:

  • techage (bugfixes)

2022-01-03

Updated Mods:

  • techage (see readme)
  • hyperloop (see readme)
  • minecart (bugfix)
  • unified_inventory (see readme)
  • ta4_addons (see readme)

2021-10-30

Updated Mods:

  • techage (see readme)
  • signs_bot (see readme)
  • minecart (bugfix)
  • lcdlib (improvement)

2021-09-18

Updated Mods:

  • techage (see readme)
  • signs_bot (see readme)
  • networks (see readme)
  • ta4_addons (add matrix screen)

2021-09-04

Updated Mods:

  • minecart (bugfix)

2021-09-03

Updated Mods:

  • techage (bugfixes)
  • minecart (see readme)
  • signs_bot (see readme)

2021-08-19

Changed Mods:

  • techage (see readme and constuction board)

Updated Mods:

  • minecart

2021-08-01

Newly added mods (must be activated!):

  • networks
  • ta4_addons (Touchscreen)

Changed Mods:

  • techage (see readme and constuction board)
  • minecart (see readme "Migration to v2")

Updated Mods:

  • autobahn
  • signs_bot
  • hyperloop
  • ta4_jetpack

2021-05-14

Updated Mods:

  • compost
  • minecart
  • signs_bot
  • techage
  • towercrane
  • unified_inventory

2021-02-07

Updated Mods:

  • basic_materials
  • compost
  • hyperloop
  • minecart
  • signs_bot
  • ta4_paraglider
  • techage
  • towercrane
  • tubelib2
  • unified_inventory

2020-12-11

Updated Mods:

  • autobahn
  • basic_materials
  • minecart
  • techage v0.25
  • ta4_jetpack
  • tubelib2

2020-10-25

Updated Mods:

  • techage v0.24
  • signs_bot
  • minecart
  • techpack_stairway
  • stamina

ta4_paraglider newly added

2020-09-13

Updated Mods:

  • techage v0.23
  • signs_bot
  • minecart

2020-08-08

Updated Mods:

  • autobahn
  • compost
  • hyperloop
  • lcdlib
  • minecart
  • safer_lua
  • signs_bot
  • techage v0.21

2020-07-21

Updated Mods:

  • signs_bot
  • techage v0.18
  • towercrane
  • unified_inventory
  • basic_materials

2020-07-02

Updates (see local readme files):

  • mod 3d_armor removed again (please install separately)
  • techage v0.15 improvements and bugfixes
  • autobahn v0.04 improvements

2020-06-29

Updates (see local readme files):

  • autobahn, towercrane, ta4_jetpack, 3d_armor, and stamina now use a common player physics lockout mechanism
  • the new mod ta4_jetpack added
  • mod stamina added (adapted to the player physics lockout mechanism)
  • mod 3d_armor added (needed for ta4_jetpack, adapted to the player physics lockout mechanism)
  • minecart v1.07 with many improvements
  • techage v0.14 with many improvements
  • hyperloop v2.06 update
  • autobahn update

2020-06-21

Updates (see local readme files):

  • signs_bot v1.03
  • techage v0.13
  • hyperloop v2.06

2020-06-18

  • techage v0.12

    • cart commands added for both controllers
    • support for moreores added
    • Ethereal support added, manual correction
    • tin ingot recipe bugfix
  • minecart v1.06

    • API changed and chat command added
  • signs_bot v1.02

    • some bugfixes

2020-06-04

  • techage v0.10
    • minor changes and bugfixes
    • stone hammer added
    • quarry 'depth' command added
    • manuals adapted
    • QSG added

2020-05-31

  • first commit

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A modpack around the mod techage, including the mods like autobahn, basic_materials, compost, hyperloop, signs_bot, minecart, techpack_stairway, towercrane, unified_inventory

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