Tetra revolves around modular items and attempts to blend it together with other concepts such as adventure and technology.
The author's own description, out of the mod's manifest. Quoted, not paraphrased.
50items and blocks
30have their own page
20on the item table
26recipes
71advancements
59loot tables
Items
All 50 items and blocks —
30 have a page of their own, 20 are listed there as
anchors. Which ones earn a page was decided once, in the cross-index, and is
obeyed here rather than recomputed (D-022).
The mod's own advancement tree, as its author built it. The ordering is theirs;
nothing here invents a progression (D-011).
Spelunking (§7Tetra§r) Delve deep underground
Long Gone Find ancient ruins deep down in cold or mountainous biomes
"Salvage" Hit the highlighted areas on crates and containers with the correct tools to break them open
Deep Extraction Find a chthonic extractor in a crate or a container1 item
Unintended Use, Warranty Void Fire a chthonic extractor using a crossbow with high draw strength
§7Hold the extractor in the offhand to load1 item
Natural Cooldown Pour water on an extractor or let it sit for a while to avoid taking fire damage when picking it up
Manual Extraction Place a chthonic extractor on bedrock and hit the top with a hammer
Automated Extraction Place a forge hammer above an extractor and power it with redstone to automatically hammer it into the bedrock
Repurposed Extractor Replace the right head of a double headed tool with a chthonic extractor for a powerful harvesting tool
§7* The extractor has to be unused
* Unlike other artifacts found in the ruins this cannot be repaired with metal scrap
Planetary Piercing Find an earthpiercer in a container and attach it to a handle, the earthpiercer can break several blocks in a line1 item
Universal Fastener Salvage some bolts from the ancient ruins1 item
Tweaked to Perfection Use a bolt to bind a tool or a sword, then use the tweak tab in a workbench to change the stats of the item
§oClick Click Click Click Salvage a quick latch from the ancient ruins and use it to improve a toolbelt attachment1 item
Intradimensional Technology Find a planar stabilizer in the ancient ruins1 item
Powered Suspension Use a planar stabilizer to craft a powerful belt attachment
Planar Intersection Use two planar stabilizers to craft a bow stabilizer
Like Butter Find a stonecutter in a container and attach it to a hilt, the stonecutter can cut through stone in wide swathes1 item
Arcane Amplifiers Enchant a stonecutter with the efficiency enchantment to increase the amount of blocks broken in each sweep
Thermal Container Find a thermal cell in the ancient ruins1 item
Restored Machinery Fix up a forge hammer by attaching two charged thermal cells and two upgrades
§7The sides of the hammer will be lit up when it's functional
Magmatic Press Channel Use a forge hammer to craft a module requiring tier 5+ hammering
Required Maintenance Experience a forge hammer head jam, the hammer will not be usable until the head is un-jammed
Maintenance Acquired Smack a jammed hammer head with a handheld hammer of at least tier 4 to get the forge hammer back into a working state
Combustion Power-up Attach a combustion chamber to a forge hammer to increase its hammer tier by 1
§7Hammer upgrades like the combustion chamber can be found in crates and containers1 item
Reclamation Protocol Use a tier 6 hammer with silk touch to harvest blocks from the ruins2 items
Clawfinger Use a claw to remove an upgrade from a forge hammer
Thermal Transfer Use a transfer unit or a core extractor to fully charge a thermal cell1 item
Resonating Discovery Use a workbench to restore the percussion scanning capabilities of the holosphere scanner, place it in the world and enable scan mode, then hit it with a hammer to scan chunks for ancient ruins
Cherry-picking Diagrams Use a claw on the backside of an ancient schematic to pick up a piece
Restored Schematics Replace all of the ruined pieces of an ancient schematic with intact ones to unlock powerful tools
§mSafety Measures§r Use an Echo Shard to empower an inert Stonecutter or Earthpiercer to unlock its full potential
§7Looted Stonecutters and Earthpiercers come pre-empowered, this advancements refers to the empowering of their crafted counterparts
Calculated Fractures Shatter an Echo Shard that has been fractured 3 times to reduce negative effects
Sweepstakes Use a workbench to restore the sweeping capabilities of the holosphere scanner, the sweeper makes it easier to pinpoint the location of an ancient ruin
Acquired Knowledge Find a scroll in the world or purchase one from a villager1 item
Through the Monocle Buy a map marking an ancient ruin from a level 2 cartographer
§7§oDid they just sell me the same map twice?1 item
Frugal Crafting Purchase all of the treatises on tool efficiency from the villagers
§7Sometimes sold by villagers that have leveled up1 item
Great Works Purchase all of the treatises on material expertise from the villagers
§7Sometimes sold by villagers above level 21 item
Arcane Additions Find a gilding scroll in a nether fortress1 item
Howling Blades Find a howling blade schematic in a dungeon1 item
Re-acquired Knowledge Find a sturdy guard schematic in a dungeon1 item
Perfectly Balanced Find a throwing knife schematic in a dungeon1 item
Tools of War Find a chapter of Tools of War in a bastion remnant, or barter for one with a piglin1 item
Hollow Solids Find a geode when mining deepslate
§7Deepslate containing geodes glimmer in the presence of light1 item
Mineral Crackers Upgrade a mallet and use it to break open a geode at a workbench1 item
Expensive Maintenance Find a pristine gem in a geode and use it to socket a sword or a tool
Basic Tinkering Craft a wooden hammer from two sticks and two planks
§8§oTetra begins1 item
Basic Tinkering (§7Tetra§r) Craft a mallet from two sticks and two planks
Item Reward: Holosphere1 item
Stationary Holograph Shift + right-click to place the holosphere in the world, right click the placed block to open the holosphere UI
§7A holosphere placed near a workbench (5x5x5) allows lookups as if it was in the player's inventory
[?] Repairing modular items Modular items can be repaired in a workbench.
* Repairing an item will require materials (and appropriate tools) for one of its modules
* Repairing will cycle over all of the item's modules
* Repairing magically unstable modules will cost experience
* Each repair fully restores the durability of the item1 item
[?] Double headed tools When using double headed tools (e.g. pickaxes, axes, hammers) it's only the head with the highest value that will be considered when determining damage or harvest tier/efficiency.1 item
Simple Utilities Craft a very basic toolbelt from four pieces of string1 item
Shulker Inlays Fully upgrade a toolbelt
Bench mk II Upgrade a crafting table by right-clicking it with a mallet
Archer's Adjustments Upgrade a bow in a workbench1 item
One Part Magic Enchant a modular item in an enchanting table, or with a book in a workbench5 items
Too Many Parts Magic Suffer negative consequences after modifying an item which has exceeded its magic capacity
Clean Facade Remove destabilized effects from a module by cleansing it in a workbench
Unlimited Power Get 10 stacks of unstable power by killing unstable entities or by standing in arcane fire
Hammer II (Stone) Upgrade your hammer to a double-sided stone hammer (any type of stone), the stone hammer provides tier two hammering capabilities
§7Can be crafted in a crafting table in the same way as wooden hammers
Hammer III (Iron) Craft a double-sided iron hammer, the iron hammer provides tier three hammering capabilities
§7Can only be crafted in a workbench, requires a secondary hammer in your inventory to craft
Hammer IV (Blackstone) Craft a double-sided blackstone hammer, the blackstone hammer provides tier four hammering capabilities
§7An upgraded handle or a binding will provide enough integrity to support a blackstone hammer
Hammer V (Obsidian) Craft a double-sided obsidian hammer using an upgraded forge hammer, the obsidian hammer provides tier five hammering capabilities
§7Information about the forge hammer can be found in the spelunking advancements tab
Hammer VI (Netherite) Craft a double-sided netherite hammer using a fully upgraded forge hammer, the netherite hammer provides tier six hammering capabilities
Within Reach Place a rack near a workbench for easy access to your tools
Adaptive Protection Upgrade a shield in a workbench1 item
Cutting a New One Place a vanilla sword in a workbench and upgrade it1 item
Honed Blade Use a sword until it can be honed, then hone it at a workbench
Tall Build Hone the speed or damage of a hilt or a blade to level 5
Double Up! Apply an improvement to a sword module, and then hone that improvement to increase its effect
Tightly Wrought Upgrade a sword's hilt or strengthen the sword with a binding to increase its integrity1 item
Getting Another Upgrade Place a vanilla tool such as a pickaxe, an axe or a hoe in a workbench and upgrade it
Recipe types
Type
Recipes
minecraft:crafting_shaped
18
minecraft:crafting_shapeless
8
A recipe file always lives under its shipping mod's namespace, so
cross-mod support shows up in the recipe type, never the directory.
Dependencies
What the JAR declares it needs, exactly as written. The range is what the
modloader itself enforces; it is not resolved to a build, because a range is
stable and a resolution is perishable (D-019).