EarlyProgression

MINECRAFT 1.12.2 · FORGE · 1,002 QUESTS · 31 CHAPTERS

JOIN THE DISCORD · COMPANION ADDON

EarlyProgression is an expert industrial modpack built around the work between machines. Prepare materials by hand, put together your first IC2 workshop, then use its output to build the next production line. Recipes connect the mods, so an older machine can still have a job long after you unlock its successor.

The quest book is in Russian. This page is in English; the pack does not yet include an English quest translation.

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01 / THE FIRST WORKSHOP

You start with flint tools, plant fibres and fired ceramics. Preparing these materials gives the early workshop a purpose before electricity arrives. The first machines take over work you have already done by hand.

02 / A FACTORY THAT GROWS WITH YOU

IC2 leads into Immersive Engineering steel and presses, followed by Thermal and Mekanism. Custom components and assembly recipes tie those stages together. Mekanism's three-times ore processing opens AE2 storage and autocrafting at the same stage, with channels enabled.

Later projects include deeper ore processing, IC2 reactors, matter production and quantum equipment. Solar power develops in stages. There is no mandatory magic or space detour in the industrial route.

03 / SOMETHING WORTH GROWING

Take a break from the machines and work on a crop line. IC2 already has crossbreeding, seed analysis and inherited traits; EarlyProgression gives those systems a dedicated route with 16 optional quests and a craftable field journal.

Analyze your seeds, compare offspring and keep promising specimens. Nine automatic milestones check analyzed seed bags, selected traits and crop species, including coffee, hops, flax, stickreed and redwheat. A collection goal asks for three distinct species together.

Selection targets keep Growth below 24 because mature IC2 crops at that threshold can spread like weeds. The journal explains the tradeoff. Farming automation remains tied to the industrial progression, and crop breeding is optional.

Forestry and Gendustry provide a separate bee-breeding path. You can pursue it alongside the factory without making it a prerequisite for AE2.

04 / FIND YOUR NEXT PROJECT

The 31 chapters cover the main technical route and optional work such as farming, logistics and construction. You get recipe goals and practical operating checks, rather than a pile of free progression components. Existing quest identities are preserved when updating from beta.3.

JEI helps with individual recipes. The quest book explains where the machines belong in the wider progression.

05 / MAKE IT YOUR WORKSHOP

LittleTiles, decorative blocks and the industrial mods give you room to build around your production lines. The gallery shows a creative-mode showcase made with the pack. That base is not supplied in a new survival world.

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INSTALLATION & UPDATES

• Install through the CurseForge app using Minecraft 1.12.2 and Forge 14.23.5.2864.
• Use Java 8 for this pack. Keep the included mod versions and configs together.
• Back up your world and player data before updating an existing instance.
• The quest text and field journal are currently in Russian.

Progression balance is still being playtested. Dedicated-server startup and targeted mechanics are tested during development; completion time and performance with a large group are not established.

COMMUNITY

Found a recipe problem, a broken texture or an awkward progression step? Post the pack version and steps to reproduce it in Discord. Screenshots of working factories and experiments are welcome too.

Vanilla textures: Faithful 64x Java for Minecraft 1.12.2 by the Faithful Resource Pack team. License and attribution are included. Mod textures are not all covered at 64x.

The header and project icon are AI-generated promotional illustrations. The other images are in-game screenshots without shaders or retouching. Not an official Minecraft product; not associated with Mojang or Microsoft.