The Terminal’s own themes. Saved on this device.
A Minecraft overhaul: factories, computers you program, a world with real physics, a body to wake up in, and machines that edit the world they stand in.
Interactive website demo · learn about the real Terminal below
Start with ordinary survival materials. Combine machines into systems you can inspect, understand, and program.
Form plates, wire, and gears with coal. Assemble machines by hand in the Machine Workshop, then connect electric furnaces, item storage, and controllers. Use JEI to look up each crafting or processing route.
Build your first machinesGenerate DC electricity, choose a copper wire gauge, and store surplus energy in Battery Banks. Steam keeps running while you are away, and a bucket of water goes a long way.
Understand power and wiringPlace a Terminal and run Hard Hoof OS, with a desktop, files, an editor, and apps. Write Volt programs, read the real web with an Internet Dish, and open the same computer from Hard Hoof Studio.
Set up a TerminalUse a Matter Printer to work with blocks and a Zone Projector to apply local rules. The Dimension Creator makes worlds reached through a Gateway. These devices extend the same factory and computer network.
Meet the reality devicesAir, pressure and temperature at every height. Finite water, storm cells and local time. A planet you can fly up from, with a sky full of the others.
See how the world behavesWake as one of sixteen species, take a trade at level ten, and learn magic by feeling what it costs. Rings, inlays, medicines and a Vein Miner round out the kit.
Meet the speciesChoose your own route. Materials have survival sources and crafting or processing alternatives. Research offers ready-made programs and blueprints; it is a shortcut. Rich biomes and dimensions offer shortcuts too.
Hard Hoof 0.6.0 is the public release. This is what the development branch adds on top. Back up your worlds before you update.
On your first night the game notices how you live and calls you. Pick one here to read what it is, or let it choose.
Nine lives, and fire is home.
Eats paper, climbs peaks, throws things back.
Cold cannot reach you. Heat can.
Hop, hop, and the next hit misses.
A body you build, fuelled in joules.
Heals while wet, wilts when dry.
Sees in the dark, blinded by the sun.
Every chest rolls twice.
Antlers that follow the seasons.
Cold-blooded: warmed by sun and fire.
Walks walls, feels footsteps.
Sees by moonlight, eats your wool.
Feels the sea, and its wires.
Climbs trees, eats bamboo, overheats.
Tiny, fits any gap, loves a Dragon.
Gold makes it strong. Breathes fire.
You rise in a school by using it. A spell leans on six axes, and what you cannot yet hold kicks back. What you feel, you learn.
Weight is held: dear to raise, free to drop.
Raising ground costs 2.6 tuft a stone block-metre; dropping it is free.
Water weighs nothing inside water.
Lifting water out of water costs 1 tuft a block-metre.
Heat is moved, never made.
Heat runs downhill free; carrying it uphill costs its work.
Air moves only the air that is there.
Strong in dense air, weak on thin peaks.
Space folds, and is conserved.
Weightless is followed by a weight debt.
Time is borrowed, and repaid.
Quicken is 30% faster for 8 s, then slower for the same time.
The void holds, and gives back.
The Hold has 9 slots; each full one locks 3 max tuft.
Charge is parted, and released.
Charge sells tuft as stored energy at 10 kJ each and adds Static.
Favour is asked, never taken.
Favour comes from deeds and is lost to taboos.
The dead are called back, for a while.
Raise spends a remain and 12 tuft; the servant crumbles at dawn.
You cast only what you survived.
Cast strains skip incubation, never spread, and leave immunity.
Herbs, time and the garden's Bloom.
Costs a little tuft; plants and time do the rest.
One waking mind, swayed.
Mind glyphs never reach mindless creatures.
Many sleeping minds, visited.
A Thread carries a spell to a linked mind, at double tuft.
A contract both sides can read.
Each pact shows its service, wage, taboo and term first.
A glimpse of the machinery.
Reads the machinery under the world and never writes it.
Pick a lean. Opposites in one spell cancel.
The Tall World runs from y −1536 to 1535. This is a real slice of one. Point anywhere.
Real terrain: 6.1 km of a default Tall World (seed 4), from the game’s own generator. The plumb reads it with the game’s physics: the same numbers the Plumb HUD will show in game.
Water, weather and the sky behave like physics, so a build has to answer to them.
Every basin holds a counted volume of water. Rain fills it, dry weather evaporates it, rivers run on groundwater, and a Pump takes what is there.
How water worksStorm cells ride the planet’s wind belts and darken only their own ground. The sun keeps local time, so noon moves round the world.
Weather and timeIn creative flight, climb. The ground bends into a ball, the sky turns black, and the other planets of your system grow from points into globes you can land on. Survival ships are planned.
Space and planetsAn approachable starting route, with a guide for every step.
Use the Coal-Powered Metal Former to turn ingots into plates, wire, and gears. It burns fuel directly.
Build a Machine Workshop. Its manual 5 × 3 crafting surface makes larger machines without electricity.
Connect a fueled Coal Generator to a machine’s power terminal with copper wire. Check the power readout before expanding.
Power the Terminal from the rear, open the desktop from the front, and use the data bus to discover your machines.
Minecraft Java 26.3 · NeoForge · Java 25. Check the installation guide for the matching loader and release.
One mod jar brings the Hard Hoof systems together. Add it to a compatible NeoForge instance or include it in your own modpack. It includes shared materials and the Field Guide, machines and computers, portals and worlds, adventure, magic, and the environment.
Get the Hard Hoof modThe pack combines Hard Hoof with helper mods: JEI for recipe lookup, Jade for block and machine information, and inventory and performance improvements. Choose this route for the prepared combination.
Installation and pack detailsRead the release notes and back up your worlds before updating. The next update is built but not released; its guides are marked. Roadmap
