Ars Mekanica

A compatibility addon that bridges Ars Nouveau and Mekanism, letting their content work better together. This is the first step, with more integrations planned for future versions.

Right now it fills an obvious gap: Ars Nouveau's archwood comes with a full set of wooden items, but Mekanism ships no sawmill recipes for it - so archwood logs are a dead end in a Mekanism setup. Ars Mekanica adds the missing Precision Sawmill recipes so archwood behaves exactly like vanilla wood.

What it adds

Precision Sawmill recipes for archwood, mirroring Mekanism's vanilla wood ratios:

• Archwood logs / wood / stripped variants → archwood planks (+ sawdust)
• Archwood doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, slabs, stairs, signs, hanging signs, boats and chests → archwood planks

Source Dynamo — a block that converts Ars Nouveau Source into Forge Energy for Mekanism machines. Place it between a Source Jar and a power consumer; every balance value is configurable.

Requirements

Both Ars Nouveau and Mekanism must be installed — Ars Mekanica does nothing on its own.

Minecraft	Loader
1.21.1	NeoForge
1.20.1	Forge / NeoForge

Prefer not to add another mod? A standalone datapack build is also available.

Planned

Depending on interest, later versions may add deeper Source <-> Mekanism chemical integration or other cross-mod compat. Nothing promised yet.