Black Start

Black Start

**The night is darker. The furnaces are slower. The torches barely glow.**
Build a giant coal power plant, run it, and bring electricity to your world.

⚡ The Coal Power Plant

• Place a plan with the **Project Table** and watch the plant rise **stage by stage** as you supply materials and time.
• The plant interior (boiler hall and control room) is built by the project itself.
• **You build the rest:** place the turbine, generator, heat exchangers, condenser, pump and cooling tower, then connect everything with **pipes you lay yourself**.
• Manage **boiler pressure**, watch the gauges and react to **alarms and faults** before things go wrong.

🔌 Electricity (FE)

• Cables with **+ / − terminals**. Connect them the wrong way and DC will hurt.
• **AC and DC** power, with inverters and rectifiers to convert between them.
• Cables are always visible, so your grid is part of your world.

🏭 From Small to Huge

• Start small: **hand-crank generators, water wheel, coal generator, steam engine, small power plant**.
• Grow into the **giant coal power plant**.
• Later options: **solar farm, giant wind turbine, deep geothermal well**.
• Resource machines, coal processing, electric lights, electric furnaces and more.

🔬 Research

• Press **R** to open the research tree.
• Earn coins from **labs** and unlock new machines step by step.

🌫️ Pollution

• Burning fuel raises **world pollution** from 0 to 100%.
• Higher pollution brings **thick fog**, yellowing grass and **lower combustion efficiency**.
• Fight back with **air filters and air cleaners**, or switch to cleaner power.

🌙 A Darker World

• Vanilla torches and lights are much weaker. Furnaces are 2× slower.
• Nights are darker and foggy.
• Only **powered Black Start lights** keep monsters from spawning.
• You can only sleep with a **powered light** near your bed.
• Villages get weak street lamps, and master villagers need power to trade.

📋 Requirements

• Minecraft **1.21.1**
• NeoForge **21.1.248** or newer
• No other mods required. Needed on both **client and server**.

⚠️ Compatibility Notes

• Shader packs may hide the pollution and night fog.
• With **Distant Horizons**, turn on **"Enable Vanilla Fog"**.

💬 Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment. Crash reports are very welcome.

*Black Start is not affiliated with Mojang Studios or Microsoft.*