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desert of the real.

Four NeoForge 1.21.1 mods that bring the machine world into Minecraft: a scorched dimension, the Sentinels that hunt you there, and the tech to build machines that walk.

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Built for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge.

Play it before everyone else

The mods go public on Modrinth on 25 November, free. Early Access on Ko-fi lets you play now and helps keep the project going.

Matrix Mod Collection (Early Access)

Play Create: Legs & Coils and Matrix: Desert of the Real before the public release, with every future update included.

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SQUIDDY (X) Figura avatar

Play as a Sentinel with procedural legs, using the Figura mod. Not needed for the mods; it's from the same machine world.

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Devlogs

How the walking machines and the machine world are being built, one video at a time.

Legs & Coils Dev Blog #02

Legs & Coils Dev Blog #01

More on the YouTube channel

Four mods, one machine world

Each phase of the roadmap is its own mod. Install the ones you want; they're built to work together.

Phase 1: The World

Desert of the Real

In development, v0.5.0

A new dimension called The Real: a scorched wasteland under a permanent thunderstorm, with human pod fields, machine cities and a planet-wide tunnel network underneath.

5 of 7 roadmap features done

 Phase 2: The Technology

01 Generators

Planned

The technology layer behind the machine cities: power generation, energy transmission, circuit networks and EMP.

0 of 7 roadmap features done

 Phase 3: The Threat

Matrix Sentinels

In development, v0.4.0

The machines that guard the Real: Sentinels that crawl on tentacle legs, take off to hunt, and strike from above.

0 of 6 roadmap features done

 Phase 4: The Resistance

Create Aeronautics: Legs & Coils

Released, v1.7.5

Electromagnetic levitation, gyroscopes and machines that walk on procedural legs for Create Aeronautics.

3 of 6 roadmap features done

Start with the wiki

>_Commands: Desert of the RealDesert of the RealThere's no portal yet, so you reach The Real with a command. Cheats must be on.
Machine CableDesert of the RealSteel-cased cable with a glowing red energy channel. It runs across the whole planet.
Brain ControllerLegs & CoilsOne leg of a walking machine. Place it where the leg should attach.SentinelSentinelsAn armoured machine that scuttles on ten tentacle legs, swims through the air like a squid, and hunts in swarms.Pod FarmsDesert of the RealFields of human cultivation pods under a blood-red sky.
SuperconductorLegs & CoilsA levitating block that lifts ten times as hard as Levitite.

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Known problems

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