Roadmap

For the specific changes coming in the next update, see Changelog Draft.

See also: Design Documents - may contain details on future plans that fall under an existing feature.

This page covers information on future plans for Tinkers’ Construct 3. Note that just because a feature is on this list does not mean its guaranteed to be included; roadmap features tend to get many design iterations before getting added to the mod.

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Ichor

Ichor will be meltable using a foundry.
Melting ichor will produce some amount of pure liquid ichor as a byproduct, and some amount of blazing blood. This means its not 1 to 1 casting and melting.
Requires blazing blood to melt ichor.
Pure ichor can be casted like any other slime type.
Pure ichor is also used in alloying King’s Slime.

Fluid Block Effects

Slime fluids will be given more utilitarian effects on blocks of their current potion effects.
Ichor will notably break blocks.
Enderslime will break a block and replace it with one from your hand.
Some fluids such as glass or obsidian will place spike blocks to damage and slow attackers.

Multiblock

Slimemetal Casting

Slimesteel and King’s Slime will be usable to make late game fluid mechanics.

Cinderslime

New tier 3 material alloyed from gold, ichor, and scorched stone.
Trait restores overslime by consuming fuel in the tools tank.
Requires ichor being added as a fluid, now that plans for it are more settled.

Inverted Channels

Slimesteel and King’s Slime can make channels and faucets.
They work identically to seared/scorched channels/faucet except for one small difference: downwards pouring is replaced with upwards pouring.

Casting Tank

Crafted from slimesteel or copper perhaps.
This tank has a slot that accepts an item via automation such as hoppers.
Tank will immediately fill/empty the item if possible, or wait to empty if the tank is full/unable to accept the fluid.
After interacting with the item, its moved to the “output slot” so it won’t interact again. Automation can then extract it and insert a new item.
Useful to automatically fill or empty buckets/copper cans.

Tinker Tank

Crafted from cinderslime.
Tank has a single slot that can hold an item with a fluid handler.
Any interactions to the tank will interact with the item’s fluid handler, essentially proxying it.
Useful to automatically fill or empty variable sized tanks or tools.

Smeltery interface

Allows accessing the UI fluid tank
Comparator signal for tank level
On pulse, switches fluid order (bottom to top? Top to bottom?)

Sublimery

The sublimery is currently targeted for an early 1.20 build, likely before the first stable 1.20 release.

Upside-down smeltery unlocked at the beginning of the end.
Created using slimestone (slime on end stone) and slimesteel/king’s slime/queen’s slime (undecided).
Third variant of the multiblock melting structure, after the smeltery and foundry.
Will support melting entities into gaseous experience instead of transitional entity melting.
Will likely not support alloying (smeltery exclusive) or byproducts (foundry exclusive).
Will likely have the same ore output rate as smelteries, though it will be configurable in case a modpack wishes it to be higher.

Soul Forge

Main page: Soul Forge.

The soul forge is a planned multiblock for late game tool, modifier, and material crafting. The soul forge at earliest will come in 1.20, though 1.21 or later is more likely. For more information, see Soul Forge.

Fluid Cannon

Special tank that shoots a fluid projectile when powered by redstone.
Has 3 variants:
- Overworld: crafted from copper + seared stone. Power 1.
- Nether: crafted from cobalt + scorched stone. Power 2.
- End: crafted from knightmetal + slimestone. Power 4.

Tools

Slimeshields

The missing shield type
Lean into the bouncy aspect of slime with knockback and bouncing?

Ranged

We wish to add at least 1 or 2 more variants of ranged weapons. Below are a few potential ideas:

Sling: Can fire throwable objects such as snowballs or potions. Potentially can fire metal nuggets as well.
Flail: Fires a projectile that must be reeled in to fire again, sorta like a weaponized fishing rod. Will damage both on throwing and returning.
Spear: Tinker tool implementing trident like behavior. Works both as a melee weapon and a ranged weapon when thrown.
Boomerangs: Replacement for shurikens, essentially just a spear that has returning.

Ancient Tools

Several new ancient tools are planned for later versions of the mod.

Swasher

The swasher is a fluid based melee weapon. It can be found in in shipwrecks, buried treasure, ocean ruins, the hands of drowned, and from fishing. It has the following behavior:

Parts: Tool Head (melee/harvest), Grip (ranged), Handle (melee/harvest)
Model:
- Visuals based on a cutlass pistol
- Grip/handle determines handle parts
- Head determines blade
Modifier Slots:
- 3 upgrade slots
Functionality:
- Melee weapon
- Starts with spilling
- Starts with spitting (uses bow stats, maybe spitting 2)

Other Considerations

Knight’s Shovel: the shovel wielded by one of the greatest warriors of the past, found in dungeons or in the hands of zombies.
Ancient armor set, either as 4 unique pieces with special traits or 4 pieces fitting an untouched area of armor.

Projectiles

Considering bringing back projectiles with tool materials:

Projectiles will contain typically 2 materials, but will not support modifiers from recipes.
Crafting will produce a stack of projectiles instead of just 1. Durability will not be ammo.
May support modifications after the fact, such as tipping with a potion or filling with a fluid.

Variants:

Shuriken: Throwable projectile item with 2 head traits.
Arrow: Launched in bows, with a head trait and a handle trait.

Materials

Several new material tiers are planned:

Tier 4F: Tier 4 materials requiring the Soul Forge instead of advanced alloying.
Tier 4E: Tier 4 materials requiring early end access.
Tier 5: Ultimate materials requiring combining severlal methods of material crafting.

Slimesuit Slimy 2.0

More Slime:

Instead of making the slimesuit from enderslime, make it from any slime type
Use the soul forge to craft it.
Each slime has different effects! Like clay for armor!

More Materials:

All parts will work like slimeskulls, having multiple bases!
Chestplates use bones to boost melee effects, or elytra for flight.
Leggings and boots do other neat stuff, will write more on it here later.

Modifiers

Mending

Consumes experience fluid from the tools tank to repair the tool
Replaces mending moss
May end up being a trait of one of the tier 4 or 5 materials

Some modifier with a cool name

Consumes experience orbs to fill the tool’s tank with XP
Pairs well with mendings, hint hint
You may also wish to pair some tanks with mending, goal is for mending to take fewer slots than unbreakable but more than overslime

Throwing

Shiny is obsessed with this modifier
Will be cool, but will never live up to Shiny’s expectations
Ideally will have different effects based on the tool

Dual Harvesting

Like dual wielding, but for harvest
Will let you harvest blocks with the tool in the offhand in some way. May just clone the 1.12 logic, may require you to hold right click.
May just allow without charging anything, if not may be an upgrade.

Charge attack

Way to upgrade broad tools by granting them a special ability on holding right click

Quick ability

Way to upgrade small tools by granting them a non-combat ability on pressing right click

Fluid Effect Rework

Add a fluid effect that breaks blocks, add it to several key fluids for ranged mining.
Likely want to use said effect for water breaking plants too.
Redesign fluid effects other fluids to be more logical and cohesive.

Worldgen

Ichor Islands

Ichor slimes?
Ichor slime islands?
Would all be on the ceiling
Geodes may partially replace this, not sure.

Teantium Ore

New end exclusive ore used in the soul forge. See the Soul Forge for more information.