ProjectE Rebalanced

ProjectE Rebalanced is a balance addon for ProjectE. It adjusts overly powerful transmutation, rings, amulets, stones, and the Dark Matter Pedestal so they fit better into long-term survival progression.

The goal is not to ban ProjectE. The goal is to keep ProjectE useful while making its strongest effects require meaningful EMC costs, startup time, or operating limits.

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Forge: 47.x
• Target ProjectE: ProjectE-1.20.1-PE1.0.1 or newer
• Install this mod on both the client and the server.

Main Changes

Transmutation purchase cost scaling

Items bought from the Transmutation Table become more expensive as the same item is purchased repeatedly.

• Selling EMC is unchanged.
• Only purchase EMC is increased.
• Shift-click bulk purchasing is supported.
• Tooltips show the adjusted purchase EMC.
• Purchase counts are stored per world.

This makes transmutation better suited for filling small material gaps rather than unlimited mass production.

Custom EMC Config

ProjectE Rebalanced supports custom EMC definitions through the common config file.

You can add or override EMC values in config/projecterebalanced-common.toml:

[custom_emc]
entries = [
  "minecraft:apple=128",
  "born_in_chaos_v1:fel_soil=8000"
]

EMC value additions and corrections

This mod adds or corrects EMC values for some vanilla items and some items from other mods.

Main targets include:

• Selected vanilla items
• Selected GregTech CEu items
• Selected Forestry items
• Selected The Graveyard items
• Selected Born in Chaos items
• Selected Lycanites Mobs items

External mod support is intentionally selective. The main targets are ordinary materials, repeatable mob drops, food, ores, simple crafting ingredients, and recipe value corrections. Machines, automation blocks, progression keys, unique artifacts, and items whose main value comes from stored state or special behavior are generally left without sellable EMC.

For exact item-level values, use the CSV export command described below. The generated CSV is the best source for detailed EMC values and sellability.

These EMC registrations are built in. Individual item EMC values are not currently configurable.

Item EMC CSV export

For pack maintenance, server operators can run /itemclist <modid> to export registered items from a specific mod and their current ProjectE EMC values to a CSV file in the world folder.

Example: /itemclist lycanitesmobs

Items listed with 0 EMC cannot be sold to ProjectE.

This is only a helper for reviewing EMC values. It does not change EMC values.

Energy Collector Limit

Energy Collector Mk1, Mk2, and Mk3 are limited to one of each tier per dimension.

Examples:

• You can place one Mk1 in the Overworld.
• A second Mk1 in the Overworld will be blocked.
• Mk2 and Mk3 are counted separately.
• The Nether and The End have their own separate limits.

The mod does not scan the entire world for old collectors. Collectors placed after installing this mod are recorded, and removing a recorded collector allows another one of the same tier to be placed in that dimension.

Dark Matter Pedestal

Right-clicking a Dark Matter Pedestal now opens a custom GUI.

GUI features

• Insert a pedestal effect item.
• Insert Klein Stars or other EMC storage items into the internal inventory.
• Use Start and Stop buttons.
• View internal EMC, pedestal status, and startup progress.

Internal EMC

The pedestal must be charged with internal EMC before it can operate.

Default values:

• Internal EMC capacity: 25,600,000 EMC
• EMC absorption rate: up to 640,000 EMC per second
• Operating cost: 64,000 EMC every 10 seconds
• Startup delay: 15 minutes

Put Klein Stars or other EMC-holding items into the internal inventory, and the pedestal will automatically absorb EMC from them. There is no special Klein Star slot; it uses the normal internal inventory.

Operation and shutdown

• The pedestal cannot start if it does not have enough internal EMC.
• Pressing Start begins a startup delay instead of activating immediately.
• While active, the pedestal consumes internal EMC every 10 seconds.
• If internal EMC runs out, the pedestal shuts down.
• After a shutdown, it must be recharged and started again, including the startup delay.
• Breaking the pedestal destroys its stored internal EMC.
• Items in the internal inventory are dropped when the pedestal is broken.

Hoppers can insert and extract items. Other automation mods may also work if they interact through normal Forge item handling, but no dedicated support is guaranteed.

Ring, Amulet, and Stone Rebalancing

Many powerful ProjectE items now consume additional EMC while carried, active, or used. If the cost cannot be paid, the related effect will not activate.

Passive or active upkeep

Per-use costs

Arcana Ring

Arcana Ring inherits the restrictions of the rings it combines.

• Zero mode follows Zero Ring rules.
• Ignition mode follows Ignition Ring rules.
• Harvest mode follows Harvest Goddess Band rules.
• Swiftwolf-style flight and wind effects require the Swiftwolf's Rending Gale cost.

Arcana Ring does not have its own separate cost settings. It uses the settings of the corresponding source rings.

Watch of Flowing Time

Watch of Flowing Time has been heavily reduced because of its powerful time-control effects.

• Carrying it in the hotbar costs 64,000 EMC every 10 seconds.
• Nearby block acceleration is reduced to about one extra tick per second by default.
• Mob slowing is also greatly reduced.
• Sun and moon time control costs an additional 64,000,000 EMC every 10 seconds.
• Watch effects on a pedestal are also reduced to about one extra tick per second by default.
• Multiple pedestal effects can still stack.

Archangel's Smite

Archangel's Smite has reduced firing power.

Default values:

• Single arrow cooldown: 12 ticks
• Volley cooldown: 60 ticks
• Arrow EMC cost multiplier: 25x

Unchanged Items

The following items are not nerfed in this release:

• Black Hole Band
• Mind Stone

Recipes are not changed.

Configuration

After first launch, the server config file projecterebalanced-server.toml is generated.

On a dedicated server, it is usually located in the world's serverconfig folder.

Common default settings:

20 Minecraft ticks are roughly 1 second. Keep that in mind when changing tick-based values.

Notes

• The client and server must use the same version of ProjectE Rebalanced.
• Similar effects provided by other ProjectE equipment, such as Gem Armor, may still work through their own original paths.
• Existing worlds are supported, but old Energy Collectors are not automatically scanned.
• This mod adds costs, limits, and startup requirements to powerful effects. It does not disable ProjectE as a whole.