Five Acts take you from a dirt field to a colony on an ice world. Every Act opens with a briefing that lists its milestones; big deliveries go into Task Screens fed by belts and pipes.

1. FARM

   1. 

      Mission Briefing

      answer the Ark Initiative

   2. 

      Act I · The Homestead

      crops, kitchen, animals, seasons

2. FORGE

   1. 

      Act II · The Harvest Engine

      Create automates the farm

   2. 

      Act III · Bio-Industry

      biodiesel, bioplastic, rocket fuel

3. FLY

   1. 

      Act IV · Mission Control

      suits, rations, rocket, liftoff

   2. 

      Act V · Seed to Stars

      Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Glacio

   3. Ark Seed Vault

      delivered to Glacio

• Colony Life opens after the briefing and runs alongside: Supply Contracts buy your produce for Colony Credits, the Colony Exchange spends them, and the Farmer's Almanac is a field guide to dishes, fish, crops, bees and animals.
• The Ark Manifest opens after Act II: the endgame megaproject. 3,000 bread, 2,500 astronaut rations, 512,000 mB of rocket fuel, 2,048 bioplastic sheets, 1,024 steel plates, then a flight to Glacio orbit to build the Ark as a station.
• The Oasis Challenge uses the same pack and book with a much harder start (see below).

Eleven chapters in two groups, "Main Mission" and "Colony Life". The story chapters use flexible progression: the book guides, it does not railroad.

Image	Chapter	Quests
	Mission Briefing Incoming transmission from the Ark Initiative	12
	Oasis Challenge Survive the wastes. Find what the first colony left behind.	32
	Act I · The Homestead Put down roots.	32
	Act II · The Harvest Engine Build the machine that feeds the colony.	36
	Act III · Bio-Industry Crops in. Power out.	32
	Act IV · Mission Control Steel, seeds, and a ticket to the Moon.	34
	Act V · Seed to Stars Grow where nothing has ever grown.	31
	The Ark Manifest Feed a colony. Fuel a starship. Bring a friend.	30
	Supply Contracts (Colony Life) Grow it. Ship it. Get paid.	32
	Colony Exchange (Colony Life) Spend Colony Credits on time-savers and treats.	37
	Farmer's Almanac (Colony Life) Field notes on everything that grows, swims, grazes and buzzes.	46

Made for this pack. 26 custom items, 2 effects, 8 chapter banners, a title logo and a painted title panorama, all drawn by Python pixel-art generators in build/branding/:

Everyone in the group plays on a Mac, and the multiplayer server runs on Linux. The pack is tuned for both, and every choice below is in the pack today.

The Apple crash hunt. Early builds crashed at random, 0 to 60 seconds after joining a world. Crash-log forensics traced it to Distant Horizons: it reads one OpenGL setting into a buffer sized for one number, and Apple's OpenGL-on-Metal driver writes two. A small probe program proved it on the M5 Pro. The fix is an 11-byte bytecode patch to Distant Horizons, rebuilt from the official download by one command (./sts patch-dh), so the far-view LODs stay and the crashes are gone.

Linux server. The dedicated NeoForge server runs as a systemd service and shares the memory optimizations (ModernFix, FerriteCore, Clumps). Client-only mods (rendering, zoom, shaders) are marked client-side in the pack, so the server never loads them.

Next up: a Mac tuning pass (Retina render scale, trackpad and keyboard fixes, Java memory flags for Apple silicon) and a shader preset tested on Apple GPUs.

• On the Mac

  Minecraft Launcher → Seed to Stars profile → Play. The game folder ~/Games/SeedToStars is synced from this repo with ./sts deploy client-mods, which keeps your worlds and refuses to run while the game is open.

• New world

  Create a Survival world; you spawn with the Quest Book.

• Oasis Challenge

  Singleplayer → Oasis Challenge. ./sts deploy client installs a fresh copy and moves the old one to the game folder's backups/worlds/.

• Multiplayer

  A private, whitelisted server on Omid's Linux box runs its own Oasis Challenge world. Ask for access; friends need the same pack (a shareable package is on the roadmap).

• Player guide

  Keys, world rules and tips are in build/oasis/README_PLAYER.md and build/KEYS.md.

Coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, others) start with AGENTS.md: repo map, golden rules, dev loop and definition of done. Every doc is indexed in docs/README.md.

gh repo clone omid-ctrl/seed-to-stars ~/modpacks   # the tools expect exactly this path
cd ~/modpacks
./sts doctor      # prerequisites: packwiz, Java 21, python3 + Pillow, gh, local inputs
./sts validate    # compile tools, lint quest specs, parse pack files, packwiz index check
./sts quests      # compile build/specs into the pack's FTB Quests files
./sts integrate   # boot the local test server with the pack and report errors

./sts integrate and ./sts oasis-build need a local NeoForge test-server/, which is not in git (docs/PLAYBOOKS.md).

How it fits together (details in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md):

The engine stays NeoForge, Create and about 100 mods. "A game of its own" means our own layer on top: content, names, art, worldgen and systems.

• Mods belong to their authors. This repo ships no mod jars: packwiz metafiles point at Modrinth and CurseForge downloads, checked by hash. The full list is below.
• Terralith by Stardust Labs shapes the terrain. The pack silences its intro chat message, so the credit lives here.
• Distant Horizons is LGPL-3.0. The macOS fix changes 11 bytes in one class; the patched jar is not committed and ./sts patch-dh rebuilds it from the official release (see client-extras/README.md).
• Original code, quest text and art in this repo © Omid. No open-source license yet; ask before reusing.
• Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.