PolyTech
a server-side tech and automation mod for Minecraft 1.21.11, built on the Fabric API using Polymer. It introduces a comprehensive energy network and a suite of machines designed to process resources and automate crafting.
⚙️ PolyTech
🖥️ Server-side tech + automation • Fabric API • Polymer • Minecraft 1.21.11
⚡ Adds energy networks, industrial machines, quarry systems, villager processing, and large-scale automation.
✨ Key Features
⚡ Energy System
- Uses Power Units (PU) over a ➕ 6-way connectable Cable grid
- Upgradeable tiers: LV → MV → HV → EV
- 📡 Dimension-wide wireless power with 🎨 16 color channels
- 🔋 Battery Boxes for energy storage and distribution
- ☀️ Solar Panels for renewable power generation
🏭 Industrial Machines
- 🔥 Generator: burns furnace fuels to produce power
- 🪨 Macerator: grinds items into dust
- 🧱 Compressor: makes plates and compressed materials
- 🔥 Electric Furnace
- 👥 Villager Grinder: processes villagers into Villager Souls
- 🧬 Villager Combiner: combines villagers for trait optimization
⛏️ Quarry Automation
- ⛏️ Quarry Block with moving drill head for frame-based mining
- 🧨 Chunk Destroyer for large-scale chunk-by-chunk excavation
- 🧱 Quarry Frames to define and visualize mining areas
- 📦 Digital Chest compatibility for direct mined-item deposit
🤖 Automation
- 🧠 Digital Crafter (endgame) connects to a 🎨 Digital Chest color channel
- 📋 Scans and executes crafting recipes automatically
- 🎛️ Machine-specific GUIs for control and monitoring
- 🔀 All machines support per-face I/O: ⬅️ Input • ➡️ Output • ➖ Normal • 🚫 Disabled
📦 Materials & Progression
- 🪙 New processed resources including Iron Dust, Gold Dust, and Copper Dust
- 🧱 New compressed materials including Iron Plates, Gold Plates, and Copper Plates
- 👻 Villager Soul as a specialized advanced resource
- 📘 PolyTech Handbook for in-game documentation and progression help
🪄 Dynamic Visuals & GUIs
- ✨ Floating holographic text shows status, progress, and power warnings
- 🧪 Runtime-generated resource pack with custom models and GUIs
- 🖱️ Drag-and-drop slot UI
- 🧰 Expanded machine interfaces for more advanced systems
🔗 Integrations
- 📦 Digital Chest support for automation and quarry output
- 🚰 Polymer Pipes support for item and fluid transport
- 📚 Polydex integration for recipe browsing with custom categories
🛠️ Summary
PolyTech is growing into a much larger automation mod focused on energy, industrial processing, quarry mining, villager-based progression, and cross-mod infrastructure — all with server-side Polymer compatibility for vanilla-friendly multiplayer play.