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From the Ground Up (Unofficial Port) — Wiki

This wiki covers gameplay, the technology tree, commands, installation, and FAQ for this mod. Chinese and English tech names are both listed; English original names appear in parentheses where they differ.

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Table of Contents

  1. Gameplay & Getting Started
  2. Technology Tree Overview
  3. Technology Details
  4. Command Reference
  5. Installation & Building
  6. FAQ
  7. License

Gameplay & Getting Started

This mod adds a research system to Minecraft: instead of knowing every recipe from the start, you must study and unlock technologies through research before you can use the corresponding items and recipes.

Core Items

Item Purpose
Research Book Opens the technology tree interface to view researched / unlocked / available technologies. Default key: R.
Magnifying Glass Right-click blocks in the world to "observe" them and gain knowledge. Some secrets must be deciphered from a hint.
Idea Table Combine items in it to spark "ideas", unlocking new research branches.
Research Table Insert research parchment and solve a puzzle (match or connect types) to complete the research.
Research Parchment The vessel of research — written with an idea at the Idea Table, then solved at the Research Table.

Getting Started

  1. Craft a Research Book, press R to open the technology tree, and first research Survival — the root technology.
  2. Research Research to unlock the Idea Table, Research Table, Research Book, and Magnifying Glass — the real research gameplay begins.
  3. Observe blocks with the Magnifying Glass, or fulfill criteria (e.g. having an effect, killing a specific mob) to satisfy a technology's research prerequisites.
  4. Place recipe items in the Idea Table to spark an idea, then write it onto a Research Parchment.
  5. Put the parchment in the Research Table, solve the puzzle (place the right items / connect the right lines), and the technology is unlocked.

Research Criteria

Each technology's research requires meeting certain conditions. Common types:

  • effects_changed — obtain a potion effect
  • player_killed_entity — kill a specific mob (e.g. a witch)
  • item_inventory — have an item in your inventory
  • player_trigger / location — trigger at a specific location

Decipher

When the Magnifying Glass observes certain blocks (e.g. beds, cauldrons, nether stars), the result is not shown directly and must be deciphered. After observing, press the decipher key and follow the hint (which points to a specific block / location) to complete the decipher and gain the corresponding knowledge.

Technology Tree Overview

  • survival (Survival) is the only root technology — it has no prerequisites.
  • Arrows mean prerequisite → successor; you must research a prerequisite before its successor.
survival Survival
├─ stoneworking Stoneworking
│   ├─ construction Construction
│   │   ├─ stonemasonry Stonemasonry
│   │   │   ├─ activation Activation ──→ (power Power)
│   │   │   └─ brickwork Brickwork ──→ quartz Quartz ──→ purpur Purpur
│   │   └─ carpentry Carpentry ──→ glassworking Glassworking ──→ prismarine Prismarine
│   ├─ agriculture Agriculture
│   │   ├─ cooking Cooking ──→ gilded_cuisine Gilded Cuisine
│   │   └─ dyes Dyes
│   └─ refinement Refinement
│       ├─ smithing Smithing ──→ lapidary Lapidary
│       └─ explosives Explosives
├─ boats Boats
│   └─ carts Carts ──→ transportation Transportation
├─ defense Defense
│   └─ metal_armor Metal Armor ──→ gem_armor Crystalline Armor
└─ research Research  (research root)
    ├─ bibliography Bibliography ──→ enchanting Enchanting ──→ glowing_eyes Glowing Eyes ──→ ender_knowledge Ender Knowledge
    └─ brewing Brewing

power Power  (prerequisite = construction/activation)
├─ cartography Cartography
├─ circuitry Circuitry ──→ redstone_machinery Redstone Machinery
└─ music Music

Note: although power is a Power-category tech, its prerequisite is the construction-category activation; the research category's prerequisite is survival. Cross-category references are normal.

Technology Details

Unlock entries are listed by Minecraft item registry name (English ID); the corresponding in-game Chinese names follow the game language.

Survival

Technology Prerequisite Unlocks
Survival (root) wooden_sword, wooden_shovel, wooden_pickaxe, wooden_axe, crafting_table, torch, bowl, wooden tools & planks
Stoneworking Survival stone_sword, stone_shovel, stone_pickaxe, stone_axe (stone tools)
Construction Stoneworking assorted stone/sandstone blocks, snow, nether wart block, item frame
Stonemasonry Construction stonebrick, stone slab, stone brick stairs, cobblestone wall, concrete powder
Activation Stonemasonry wooden/stone button, pressure plates, lever
Brickwork Stonemasonry brick_block, brick stairs, flower pot, nether brick, terracotta, etc.
Quartz Brickwork quartz_block, quartz stairs, glowstone, magma block
Purpur Quartz purpur_block, purpur_pillar, purpur_stairs, end rod, shulker box
Carpentry Construction doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, chest, sign, ladder, painting, wool, bed, carpet, banner
Glassworking Carpentry stained_glass, glass pane, glass bottle
Prismarine Glassworking prismarine (three kinds), sea lantern
Agriculture Stoneworking hoes, wheat, hay block, melon, pumpkin, lead, grass path, leather
Cooking Agriculture sugar, mushroom/rabbit/beetroot stew, bread, cookie, cake, pumpkin pie, fishing rod, carrot_on_a_stick
Gilded Cuisine Cooking golden_apple, golden carrot, speckled melon
Dyes Agriculture assorted dyes (red/purple/cyan/gray/pink/yellow/blue/magenta/orange, etc.)
Refinement Stoneworking furnace, iron/gold ingot & block, diamond, emerald, coal block, lapis, redstone, slime, bone meal/block
Smithing Refinement anvil, bucket, iron bars, iron door/trapdoor, full iron & gold tool sets
Lapidary Smithing full diamond tool set (sword/shovel/pickaxe/axe/hoe)
Explosives Refinement tnt, tnt_minecart, firework_charge, fireworks, fire charge
Boats Survival boats
Carts Boats minecart, furnace_minecart, rail
Transportation Carts hopper, golden/detector/activator rail, chest minecart, hopper minecart
Defense Survival full leather armor, armor stand, bow, arrow, shield
Metal Armor Defense full iron & gold armor
Crystalline Armor Metal Armor full diamond armor

Research

Technology Prerequisite Unlocks
Research Survival paper, ftgumod:parchment_empty (empty parchment), Idea Table, Research Table, Research Book, Magnifying Glass
Bibliography Research book, writable_book, bookshelf
Enchanting Bibliography enchanting_table, spectral_arrow
Glowing Eyes Enchanting ender_eye
Ender Knowledge Glowing Eyes end_crystal, ender_chest, beacon
Brewing Research brewing_stand, cauldron, blaze_powder, magma_cream, fermented_spider_eye, tipped_arrow

Power

Technology Prerequisite Unlocks
Power Construction · Activation redstone_torch, tripwire_hook, trapped_chest, redstone_lamp
Cartography Power compass, clock, map
Circuitry Power repeater, comparator, piston, sticky_piston
Redstone Machinery Circuitry dispenser, dropper, observer, daylight_detector
Music Power noteblock, jukebox

Research Recipes (Idea Table & Research Table)

Besides meeting the research criteria, most technologies require two "recipe" steps before they fully unlock:

  1. Idea Table: place the specified items into the Idea Table (order doesn't matter) to spark an idea, then write it onto a parchment.
  2. Research Table: put the parchment into the Research Table and solve the puzzle — either a match (place the right items in a 3×3 grid) or a connect (place 3 items forming a production chain).

Notes: #xxx is a mod-defined tag (any one of the listed items); . means an empty cell. Items are listed by registry name; in-game they display in your language.

Construction

  • Stoneworking
    • Idea Table: stick / any wooden tool + cobblestone
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .   [string/reeds]  cobblestone
.   stick         [string/reeds]
stick  .            .
  • Construction
    • Idea Table: #stone (stone or sandstone)
  • Stonemasonry
    • Idea Table: #smoothStone
    • Puzzle (match): 
      #stoneSlab  #stoneSlab  #stoneSlab
#smoothStone  .        #smoothStone
#smoothStone  #stairsStone  #smoothStone
  • Activation
    • Idea Table: stick + any door / fence gate / trapdoor / iron door / iron trapdoor + redstone dust
    • Puzzle (connect): iron door → lever
  • Brickwork
    • Idea Table: clay / clay ball + #heat
    • Puzzle (connect): hardened clay → brick block
  • Quartz
    • Idea Table: quartz + glowstone dust / magma block / magma cream
  • Purpur
    • Idea Table: popped chorus fruit + purpur block/pillar/stairs/slab/end rod
    • Puzzle (match): 
      purpur slab   purpur slab   purpur slab
purpur pillar  end rod     purpur pillar
[purpur block/end bricks] purpur stairs [purpur block/end bricks]
  • Carpentry
    • Idea Table: wool + planks + wooden slab + wooden stairs
    • Puzzle (connect): planks → wool
  • Glassworking
    • Idea Table: sand + glass block
  • Prismarine
    • Idea Table: prismarine / sea lantern + prismarine shard + prismarine crystals

Power

  • Power
    • Idea Table: redstone dust + any switch (button / pressure plate / lever / stick)
    • Puzzle (match): 
      redstone dust  .   .
stick      redstone dust  redstone dust
[circuit board] [circuit board] [circuit board]

      [circuit board] = stone / stone slab / wool / terracotta / concrete, any one.

  • Cartography
    • Idea Table: paper + redstone dust / feather / ink sac
  • Circuitry
    • Idea Table: redstone dust / redstone torch + quartz / stone / stone slab
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  .  .
redstone dust  stone  redstone torch
[circuit board] [circuit board] [circuit board]
  • Redstone Machinery
    • Idea Table: bow + redstone dust
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  .  .
redstone dust  stone  repeater
[circuit board] sticky piston [circuit board]
  • Music
    • Idea Table: redstone dust + diamond + planks
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  [iron nugget/gold nugget/diamond]  [stick/iron ingot]
.  music disc                    .
[planks/wooden slab] [planks/wooden slab] [planks/wooden slab]

Research

  • Bibliography
    • Idea Table: paper + leather
  • Enchanting
    • Idea Table: any enchanted item
    • Puzzle (connect): book → iron sword
  • Glowing Eyes
    • Idea Table: ender pearl + blaze powder
  • Ender Knowledge
    • Idea Table: #dragon (dragon egg / dragon's breath / dragon head) + nether star
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  nether star  .
.  [crafting table/bed]  .
.  #dragon   .
  • Brewing
    • Idea Table: water bottle (or water bucket) + nether wart / sugar
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  sugar     .
.  nether wart  .
.  water bottle .

Survival

  • Agriculture
    • Idea Table: #crop + dirt
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  .  .
stick  #crop  stick
dirt  dirt  dirt
  • Cooking
    • Idea Table: #heat + raw meat / potato / carrot / wheat
    • Puzzle (match): 
      .  .  .
[carrot/potato/beetroot]  #rawMeat  [apple/melon/chorus fruit]
.  bowl  .
  • Gilded Cuisine
    • Idea Table: gold block/ingot/nugget + apple/carrot/melon
    • Puzzle (match): 
      gold nugget  gold nugget  gold nugget
gold nugget  [apple/carrot/melon]  gold nugget
gold nugget  gold nugget  gold nugget
  • Dyes
    • Idea Table: #flower + dye + cactus
    • Puzzle (connect): flint → ink sac
  • Refinement
    • Idea Table: #ore (iron/gold ore) + #heat + #pickaxe
    • Puzzle (match): 
      cobblestone  cobblestone  cobblestone
cobblestone  #ore       cobblestone
cobblestone  #heat      cobblestone
  • Smithing
    • Idea Table: #metal (iron/gold nugget/ingot/block)
    • Puzzle (connect): planks → anvil
  • Lapidary
    • Idea Table: diamond + emerald
    • Puzzle (connect): iron ingot → diamond
  • Explosives
    • Idea Table: gunpowder + sand + flint and steel + dye
  • Carts
    • Idea Table: iron ingot + stick / boat
    • Puzzle (match): 
      [iron ingot/planks]  .  [iron ingot/planks]
[iron ingot/planks]  [iron ingot/planks]  [iron ingot/planks]
iron ingot  [stick/wooden slab]  iron ingot
  • Transportation
    • Idea Table: redstone dust + minecart/boat/rail + chest
    • Puzzle (connect): rail → redstone dust
  • Defense
    • Idea Table: #sword + #armor/leather + iron ingot + planks
  • Metal Armor
    • Idea Table: #armor + #metal
    • Puzzle (connect): armor stand → iron ingot
  • Crystalline Armor
    • Idea Table: #armor + #gem
    • Puzzle (connect): leather → diamond
  • Boats
    • Idea Table: bowl

Survival and Research are root technologies — they have no Idea Table / Research Table steps and unlock directly once their research criteria are met.

Command Reference

All commands start with /technology (registered by this mod).

/technology grant <player> everything                       grant all technologies
/technology grant <player> only <tech>                      grant only the specified technology
/technology grant <player> through <tech>                   grant the specified technology and all its prerequisites
/technology grant <player> from <tech>                      grant the specified technology and all its successors
/technology grant <player> until <tech>                     grant the specified technology and its intermediate related techs

/technology revoke <player> everything                      revoke all technologies
/technology revoke <player> only <tech>                     revoke only the specified technology
/technology revoke <player> through <tech>                  revoke the specified technology and its prerequisites
/technology revoke <player> from <tech>                     revoke the specified technology and its successors
/technology revoke <player> until <tech>                    revoke the specified technology and its intermediate related techs

/technology test <player> <tech> [criterion]                check whether a technology / criterion is satisfied
/technology reload                                           reload technology data
  • <tech> format looks like ftgumod:survival/stoneworking, ftgumod:research/brewing.
  • Use Tab auto-completion to browse available options.
  • The difference between the only / through / from / until modes:
    • only affects only that technology itself
    • through goes up the prerequisite chain (including all parent nodes)
    • from goes down the successor chain (including all child nodes)
    • until takes everything from the root to that technology (excluding the root)

Installation & Building

Requirements

  • Minecraft 1.21.1
  • NeoForge 21.1.230 or later

Installation

  1. Install NeoForge for 1.21.1.
  2. Download this mod's release jar.
  3. Place the .jar file in your mods/ folder.
  4. Launch the game.

Building from source

./gradlew build         # compile and package
./gradlew runClient     # launch a development client
./gradlew runServer     # launch a development server

The artifact is output to build/libs/.

FAQ

Q: Why can't I craft many things at the start? A: That's normal. You need to research first to unlock them. Open the Research Book (R) to see currently available research.

Q: How do I open the Research Book? A: Craft a Research Book and press R, or rebind the key in settings.

Q: How do I solve the puzzles? A: For Match puzzles, place the correct items as the hint describes; for Connect puzzles, connect the related items into a line. Hints can be obtained by deciphering with the Magnifying Glass.

Q: What happens to old saves? A: This is an alpha release, ported almost directly from the 1.12.2 code. Undiscovered bugs may remain — test before committing to a long-term world.

Q: Is it compatible with multiplayer? A: Yes. Research progress is saved per-player.

Q: How do I quickly test all technologies? A: Use the command /technology grant <your name> everything.

Q: Where is research progress stored? A: In player data, saved with the world / player data.

License

  • This port: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0)
  • Original mod: From the Ground Up by Astavie, CC BY-NC 3.0

This work is a modified adaptation of the original. The original author does not endorse this port. Build scaffolding files are MIT-licensed by the NeoForge MDK; see MDK-LICENSE.txt.

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