Pewter - Tinkers' Construct Expansion
The Pewter mod significantly expands the capabilities of the popular Tinkers' Construct mod by adding compatibility with various magical and technological modifications. The current version implements integration with twenty different materials from other mods, as well as fourteen tool modifiers and ten armor modifiers.
Main Features
Pewter automatically detects installed mods and adds corresponding materials to the Tinkers' Construct system, including them in the "Materials and You" guidebook. All added materials are carefully balanced based on acquisition difficulty and align with the themes of the original mods.
Compatible Mods and Materials
Astral Sorcery
- Starmetal: Enemies hit glow and receive night vision
Better With Mods
- Hellfire: May repair durability when attacking burning enemies
- Soulforged Steel: Deals bonus damage against armored targets
Botania
- Manasteel, Terrasteel, Elementium: Use mana to repair durability
- Livingwood: Killing mobs fills mana-containing items
- Livingrock: Increases defense after taking damage at mana cost
Embers: Rekindled
- Dawnstone: Deals increased damage at lower elevations, high knockback
- Ashen Fabric: Fire resistance with weakness to other damage types
Soot
- Antimony: Extinguishes burning enemies, dealing additional damage
Thaumcraft
- Thaumium: Uses Aura energy instead of durability
- Void Metal: Steals enemy health, causes mental warping
The Betweenlands
- Various materials with corrosive properties and bonuses against local mobs
Special Modifiers
The mod adds unique modifiers from various mods:
- Biomes O' Plenty gems with different properties
- Botania runes for reducing mana costs and generating mana
- Thaumcraft modifiers for reducing warp and increasing damage
Balancing Features
Each material is carefully designed to maintain game balance. Material properties are logically connected to their origin and the themes of the original mods. For example, thaumium allows drawing energy from the Aura to repair tool durability.
Technical Details
The mod automatically configures integration only with installed mods, preventing conflicts. When duplicate materials exist with other addons, corresponding integrations can be disabled in the settings.