Month: 2025-12 — TerraFirmaGreg-Team/Modpack-Modern delivered two major feature efforts that enhance fuel production and recipe reliability, delivering measurable business value through throughput improvements and easier maintenance. Key contributions: - Biodiesel production expansion and oil processing enhancements: integrated tallow and fish oil processing, added tallow to biodiesel recipe, introduced a dedicated tallow boiler recipe, expanded tallow usage in firmalife:oils, and added ethanol/methanol biodiesel recipes. This work increases fuel production options and yields with refined extraction dynamics. (Commit f900e517afb524443fd3aa693f8cadfc2f787e1c) - Boiler system recipe cleanup and reliability improvements: streamlined boiler recipes by removing duplicates, clarified the recipe tab, reintroduced duration-based recipes (logs, saplings, planks), and fixed reliability gaps including consistency of charcoal nerfs and regex exclusions. (Commits 858d6ccfe04daa744e6218a00fc0ab80b51c9997; 3e68785de2470a1b675673e118858430e68a52c6) Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved production throughput and resource utilization through expanded biodiesel processing and more predictable boiler behavior. - Reduced maintenance and troubleshooting overhead by eliminating recipe duplicates and clarifying recipe tables. - Strengthened gameplay balance consistency with more robust handling of materials like charcoal and oils. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Complex feature integration in a live modpack, recipe engineering, and balance adjustments. - Version control discipline with clear commit traces and documentation-ready changes. - Regex tuning and reliability hardening to avoid edge-case exclusions.

November 2025: Feature delivery in TerraFirmaGreg-Team/Modpack-Modern focused on upgrading the colored steel crafting path. Updated the MV input recipe for colored blast steel in the electric blast furnace to use medium voltage inputs, enabling smoother crafting of red and blue steel ingots and better alignment with MV-tier progression. The change enhances recipe consistency, maintainability, and balance across the modpack.