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Data & Essence

Data & Essence

A magitech mod about exploring and learning from the data of a past civilization, to harness essence for machinery, tools, and discovery.

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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.x

Platforms

NeoForge

Supported environments

Client and server

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Creators

Cmdpro
Cmdpro Owner
EsetKalenko
EsetKalenko Co-Owner

Details

Licensed ARR
Published 4 months ago
Updated 2 days ago
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Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame17

by EsetKalenko on Jun 25, 2025
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Additions

  • Added Empty Cryochambers
  • Added minor Refined Storage integration in the form of convenience recipes, similar to the AE2 integration
  • Added Mineral Finding Rod, an ore scanner - this tool will be moved to midgame later on, current sprite and recipe are temporary

Changes

  • Made Ancient Rock Columns, Energized Ancient Rock Columns, Polished Obsidian Columns and Polished Obsidian Tracts use a facing property instead of an axis property (will make old worlds have all of these facing up as a side effect)
  • Made Cryochambers able to be rotated
  • Moved some tags to datagen
  • Changed default fluid node transfer rate to 125mB/t

Fixes

  • Fixed the Frozen Researcher's incorrect pose
  • Fixed incorrect cryochamber data in Arekko's Vault
  • Made all sounds in the mod work properly instead of just calling vanilla sounds
  • Fixed cryochambers not spawning arekko if you broke any block except the core
  • Fixed shaders being weird if a vanilla mc shader was active
  • Fixed Decorative Buffers entry's missing flavor

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame16

by EsetKalenko on Jun 13, 2025
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Additions

  • Added the ability for essence block entities to determine positioning they should have for essence meter rendering

Changes

  • Metal Shaper, Essence Breaker, and Charger now show the essence meter at a better position
  • Made the Essence Meter default to horizontal if the vertical positions are covered

Fixes

  • Adapted to databank to fix an issue where models would crash dedicated servers

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame15

by EsetKalenko on Jun 10, 2025
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Additions

  • Essence Meter, a tool you can use on blocks with no gui display (such as Buffers) to see how much Essence they contain

Changes

  • Tweaked UnderTheSky music disc texture
  • Added wires minigames to the data bank entries for the Essence Leech and Industrial Plant Siphon
  • Messed with the internals for rendering essence bars so that the essence bar background is rendered with the bar instead of being part of the gui sprite
  • Tweaked some smaller internal stuff

Fixes

  • Adapted to some small databank tweaks
  • Fixed Fluid Mixer crashing
  • Fixed Fabricator not consuming Essence when crafting
  • Fixed incorrect offset of Fabricator progress bar

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame14

by EsetKalenko on Jun 8, 2025
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Fixes

  • Adapted to databank overhaul
  • Fixed weirdness with certain items rendering in world in places like the fabricator or infuser
  • Fixed an issue where you needed some resources to be able to get some resources
  • Fixed entry unlock_all command not working properly
  • Fixed Ender Redirection blocks' break particles being missing

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame13

by EsetKalenko on Jun 4, 2025
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Additions

  • Incomplete entries show a tooltip indicating their importance, making them even more obviously relevant than they already were
  • Added Synthesis recipe for Essence Bombs and associated Copper Shell crafting item
  • Added a secret with genderfluid :3
  • Added scrolling to the data tablet
  • Added a few pages of the first of the in-game lore books, acquirable at Nature Outposts as a data entry
  • Added a default entry that clarifies behaviour of hidden blocks (such as Tethergrass, Lensing Crystal Ore)
  • Added a helpful visual for structure protector bounds
  • Added "is_default" field to data tablet entries for if an entry should be given automatically
  • Added an earlygame form of travel network that costs Ender Pearls to use, unlocked at Nature Outposts

Changes

  • Tweaked several entries, including Item Filter, Data Tablet, Fabrication, and Infuser
  • Improved the ping effect
  • Updated the Cryochamber to use the new databank megablock system
  • Made the block item for Creative Essence Batteries, Structure Protectors, Data Banks, and Computers a game master block item to stop them from being placed in survival if somehow obtained
  • Made filter upgrade sigils not take the item you want to filter
  • Made filter upgrade sigils show what they filter in the tooltip
  • Remodelled the Fabricator and the Infuser
  • Changed the item output displays
  • Made Fabricator crafting take time (Auto-Fabricator tweaked to follow the Fabricator crafting times)
  • Made the Fabricator unable to store any essence except industrial
  • Did some tweaks to the code that shouldn't affect gameplay
  • Arekko now gives you a Signal Tracker in addition to a Data Tablet if you did not already have one
  • Improved incomplete entries to use completion stages instead of the old system

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Auto-Fabricator would void remainders
  • Fixed incorrect texture offset of Auto-Fabricator progress bar
  • Fixed Opalescent Traversite Road (Opalescence integration) being unobtainable in survival
  • Fixed a duplication issue with the filter upgrade sigils
  • Fixed the Transcendental Tether being able to softlock you
  • Fixed a bug where you could manage to ascend into the sky with the Transcendental Tether
  • Fixed you being able to still exit out of a databank minigame after completion during the ending with right click
  • Fixed structure protectors not rotating with structures

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame12

by EsetKalenko on May 8, 2025
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Additions

  • Mod integration with Opalescence, adding an opal variant of Traversite Road
  • The Transcendental Tether, a Tier 2 grappling hook-esque tool

Changes

  • Improved the effect for pings from the Signal Tracker
  • Overhauled the entry manipulation commands
  • Added client config options which allow you to turn off specific shaders
  • Added an indication to the traces minigame for if a tile isn't filled but every start is connected to an end

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that would occur if a Drying Table used up the last of its input item
  • Fixed the Essence Sword not functioning as a sword
  • Fixed a crash when trying to use the signal tracker in multiplayer
  • Fixed players being able to exit the databank during the completion animation, doing this resulted in the entry not being marked as completed

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame11

by EsetKalenko on Apr 19, 2025
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Additions

  • Added charge meters for Essence-using tools such as the Illumination Rod
  • Gave all Laser Emitter lenses custom beam colors
  • Added Attracting Laser Lens
  • Added infinite essence battery, accessible via commands only
  • Added more "uncrafting" Entropic Processor recipes
  • Added more Infuser recipes, to make some vanilla resources easier to get or automateable - these are unlocked with a new data entry
  • Added new Burrow structure, found in plains and forests - does not contain data, but has some loot and lore
  • Added a new tool that locates structures
  • Added a Computer to Abandoned Factories and Ancient Weapons Facilities

Changes

  • Buffed the Industrial Plant Siphon
  • Reworked code for Essence storage on items - will result in all existing tools having their storages cleared on updating
  • Changed the naming format of Laser Emitter lenses
  • Made Metal Shaper, Melter, and Essence Furnace slightly more expensive
  • Re-added Slot Locking to Synthesis Chamber

Fixes

  • Ancient Rock is now explosion resistant
  • Vacuum caused client lag upon collecting a lot of items at once

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame10

by EsetKalenko on Apr 5, 2025
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Additions

  • New textures for tier advancement and critical data unlock messages
  • Added new recipe for decompacting Clay into Clay Balls in the Entropic Processor
  • New textures and some visual touchups for minigames

Changes

  • Conductance Rods' manual crafting recipe is less expensive
  • Essence Wires and Nodes are made with Essence Shards instead of Amethyst
  • Enforced use of buffers
  • Certain recipes from incomplete entries can show in EMI again
  • Made more entries critical (Buffers, Auto-Fabricator, Essence Leech, Industrial Plant Siphon, What Is Essence?)
  • Adjusted some entries' requisites and completion requirements
  • Nerfed Essence Leeches - low-health mobs make less Essence
  • Basic Essence renamed to Industrial Essence for more consistency with future types
  • Data Banks can no longer be relocated with mods like Carry On to preserve intended design
  • Lowered Vacuum's pickup volume
  • Improved the Item Filter
  • Improved the Auto-Fabricator
  • Removed Slot Locking from every machine EXCEPT the Auto-Fabricator (it didn't feel necessary on the others)

Fixes

  • Adapted code to work with the code changes required by Databank 1.0.4
  • Cryochambers and nodes can no longer be relocated with mods like Carry On - this caused problems
  • Fixed the color minigame
  • Fixed block entity special node interactions not applying correctly
  • Fixed Fabricator & Auto-Fabricator recipe remainders
  • Fixed locked inventories having slots meant to be empty filled

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame9

by EsetKalenko on Mar 26, 2025
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Changes

  • Rewrote the node network to be based on JGraphT; it is now less laggy and less buggy

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that would happen if nodes' connections were looped

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame8

by EsetKalenko on Mar 23, 2025
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Additions

  • New Drying Table machine - fluid and an optional additive undergo an accelerated drying process thanks to Essence, yielding a resultant item (such as water + sand = clay)
  • New Hammer and Chisel tool for expedited gathering of any block tagged #datanessence:hammer_and_chisel_collectable, such as obsidian and similar blocks; available from the start
  • Added EMI Handler for Melting recipes
  • Added new Melting recipes for Mud, Magma, Netherrack, and Stone

Changes

  • Data Banks show a hint that suggests you return later when there are no entries to display
  • Buffers display upwards moving particles when transferring
  • Coal Lumps are now 8:1 with Coal, for consistency with other mods that add coal fragments
  • EMI Plugin no longer shows recipes from incomplete entries, as to avoid spoiling puzzle solutions in the future
  • Made the Essence Burner and Essence Furnace have different visuals when active

Fixes

  • Coal Lumps had no burn time in furnaces/etc; now they burn for 200 ticks
  • Some Machines refused to work if their stored Essence went under the amount required for the recipe
  • Amethyst Shard > Essence Shard recipe was erroneously hidden in the tablet
  • Mineral Purification Chamber didn't receive water from a buffer
  • Lensing Crystal Ore and Lensing Crystal were lacking tags
  • Wire Spool had incorrect entry lock
  • Performance improvements
  • Wires would not drop if the destination was broken

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame7

by EsetKalenko on Mar 13, 2025
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Additions

  • Added some new variants of Polished Obsidian (Bricks, Tract)
  • Added a variant of Node/Wire for Mekanism Chemicals
  • Added Dewlamps, a decorative light fixture - recipe is temporary until a certain place gets added
  • Added lore entry about Ancient Rock, found at Tier 2 in Nature Outposts and Ancient Weapons Facilities

Changes

  • Blacklisted Structure Protectors from being relocated by (hopefully) many mods
  • Various internal changes to the Mote particle
  • Ancient Rock blocks cannot be broken by non-players anymore - as a side effect, mods like Jade unfortunately don't show their harvestability for now
  • Essence Breaker checks if a block is supposed to be unbreakable before breaking it
  • Tweaked Computer gui to match its block texture

Fixes

  • Wire Spools required the Synthesis Chamber to be unlocked despite being a crafting component
  • Untyped Computers crashed the game when opened

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame6

by EsetKalenko on Mar 6, 2025
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Additions

  • Added the Traversite Trudgers, a pair of boots unlockable in Tier 1 from Nature Outposts that prevent a good chunk of the environment - things such as soul sand, webs, honey, or ice - from slowing you down
  • Added Traversite Road Slabs and Stairs
  • Added indicator for incomplete Data Tablet entries
  • EMI plugin displays that DnE's machines can be used for some vanilla recipe types (crafting, smelting)
  • EMI plugin hides recipes you have not gotten the data for yet, to reduce progression confusion
  • Entropic Processor can grind Wool into String
  • Infuser can harden Rotten Flesh into Leather
  • New background for Data Tablet entry browser

Changes

  • Essence Leeches emit particles
  • Light Fixtures no longer have collision
  • Flare Lights make amethyst sounds
  • Changed Data Tablet entry connection line colors to blue

Fixes

  • Abandoned Factory chains are not waterlogged anymore
  • Gender potions are properly localized
  • Potentially fixed Create mixer bypassing progression

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame5

by EsetKalenko on Feb 22, 2025
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Additions

  • Allowed brewing potions of gender euphoria
  • Added several more items to the Industrial Plant Siphon's default tags, including seeds, saplings, flowers, and more

Changes

  • Revised Essence Burner puzzle; new puzzle requires a connection node to solve
  • Essence Burner advancement now needs you to actually place one down

Fixes

  • UnderTheSky music disc wasn't tagged #c:music_discs
  • Fixed a multiblock render crash

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame4

by Cmdpro on Feb 18, 2025
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Changes

  • Made Arekko's Vault less rare
  • Removed "Traversite Road Products" entry's puzzle for now

Fixes

  • Fixed most recipes which require a data drive not working
  • Fixed weirdness with incomplete recipes

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame3

by Cmdpro on Feb 16, 2025
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Additions

  • Entropic Processor can grind up Dye more efficiently (and has some exclusive dye sources, e.g. mushrooms) - the recipes are tag-based so as to not clutter EMI

Fixes

  • The various nugget/shard items are now properly tagged as nuggets for their respective material
  • Fixed incomplete entries not allowing crafting of recipes

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame2

by Cmdpro on Feb 15, 2025
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Additions

  • Added the Illumination Rod, a light placing tool that unlocks at tier 2

Removals

  • Removed Lapis Shard item

Changes

  • Data Banks require a Data Tablet in your inventory to use
  • Primitive Antigravity Pack only drains Essence if you are actively falling

Fixes

  • Ancient Sentinels should no longer despawn
  • Potentially fixed structure protectors still protecting even when they don't exist

Data & Essence 1.0.0-alpha-earlygame1

by Cmdpro on Feb 12, 2025
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Initial Alpha

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