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Status: Pre-Alpha

Minecraft Version: 1.20.1

Mod ID: hbm_m

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⚠️ Warning

This mod is in pre-alpha stage. DO NOT use it in your important worlds! Bugs, crashes, and mod incompatibilities are possible. MOST CRAFTS ARE MISSING!!

Report issues at GitHub Issues

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About the Mod

A modern reimagining of the legendary HBM's Nuclear Tech Mod for Minecraft 1.20.1. Nuclear technologies, radiation, advanced weaponry, and industrial automation with a rewritten codebase and improved architecture.

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⚡ Key Features

Radiation System: realistic irradiation mechanics with chunk-based spread, player accumulation, and dangerous effects

Industrial Automation: multiblock machines for resource processing and energy production

Advanced Equipment: armor and tools with unique perks and modifiers

Energy System: generation, storage, and transmission of electricity between machines

Hazard System: includes radioactivity, pyrophoricity, explosiveness, and more

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🏭 Industry and Machines

Multiblock Structures

Craft complex industrial machines consisting of multiple blocks for efficient resource processing.

Assembly Machines: two varieties for crafting automation and component production, with an advanced recipe and template system

Press: creating materials under pressure

Wood-Burning Generator: primary energy source in the early game

Energy System

A complete system for generating, storing, and transmitting electricity to power industrial machines.

Energy Storage: accumulators for electricity backup

Cables: energy transmission between machines

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🛠️ Materials and Resources

Metallurgy

Dozens of new ingots and metal blocks for crafting advanced equipment.

Radioactive Materials: uranium, plutonium, polonium, and many others for nuclear technologies

Advanced Alloys: special materials for powerful equipment

Ores: new ore types with world generation

Creative Tabs: Blocks | Consumables | Fuel | Tools | Machines | Ores | Resources | Parts | Templates | Weapons

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⚔️ Equipment and Gear

Armor with Perks

Advanced armor sets with unique modifiers and abilities.

Perk System: upgrade armor through the modification table to gain special effects

Radiation Protection: special sets for working with hazardous materials

Tools

Powerful tools with unique resource mining mechanics.

Vein Miner: mines entire ore veins at once

Advanced Tools: increased efficiency and durability

Weapons: swords and axes from various materials, as well as several types of grenades

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☢️ Radiation System

Realistic irradiation mechanics affecting gameplay and the surrounding world.

Irradiation Mechanics

Radiation Accumulation: from the environment and radioactive items in inventory

Chunk-based Spread: radiation spreads and slowly dissipates over time

Irradiation Effects: blindness, confusion, weakness, hunger, poisoning, and death at critical doses

World Impact

Block Mutations: grass and foliage transform into dead variants at high radiation levels

Radioactive Blocks: emit radiation into surrounding chunks

Measuring Devices

Geiger Counter: precise radiation measurement with sound accompaniment and HUD indication

Dosimeter: simple device for quick radiation level assessment

Hazard System

Explosiveness: don't throw gunpowder and dynamite into fire, or there might be a boom

Radioactivity: corresponding items and blocks emit radiation

Pyrophoricity: don't handle this without fire protection

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🎮 Game Systems

Commands

/hbm_m rad - manage player radiation level (add/remove/clear)

Settings

Deep integration with Cloth Config API for fine-tuning mod parameters.

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📦 Installation

Requirements:

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 1.20.1
• Cloth Config API v1.11.136+

Steps:

1. Download the latest version from Files
2. Install Cloth Config API for version 1.20.1
3. Place both .jar files in the mods folder
4. Launch Minecraft with Forge 1.20.1

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⚠️ Known Issues

Pre-alpha version: expect bugs, incomplete features, and possible world corruption

Compatibility: not tested with most mods, conflicts are possible

Crafting: some recipes are missing, survival is temporarily unavailable

Report issues at Issues with detailed descriptions.

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🤝 Contributing

Pull requests, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome!

Fork the repository and propose improvements.

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💝 Acknowledgments

The Bobcat: author of the original HBM's Nuclear Tech Mod

Raptor324, Hyperio, Razchexlitiel, TRFFuchs & ThePhoenixKnight: modernization and rework

The Forge team and Mojang for development tools

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📝 Note

We are learning as we develop, please be patient! Thank you for your interest in the mod and constructive feedback.

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