Matrix of Materia

Matrix of Materia is a short automation modpack with custom progression, built around processing basic materials into different colors of Materia, with a small amount of content from Actually Additions. Roomopolis limits building space: each of the six chapters gives you a new room intended to hold that chapter’s automation line, with little overlap between chapters, so optimizing your layouts and minimizing room use are part of the challenge. The opening chapter introduces basic automation with White, Red, and Gray Materia and their basic components, establishing production lines that you can refine and reuse throughout the pack. The second chapter focuses on fluids, automating Orange, Brown, and Blue Materia through fluid-processing lines that include making Crystallized Oil. The third chapter has you drill Black Materia from an atomically reconstructed Materia Deposit, then distill and chemically react Liquid Black Materia to produce Light Blue, Light Gray, and Yellow Materia. That chapter also unlocks Curvy Pipes item and fluid pipes for more elaborate transport setups. In the fourth chapter, alchemical methods let you automate crystal growth and transmute between six crystal colors, as you produce Purple, Magenta, and Pink Materia. The fifth chapter introduces fission reactors: Cyan Materia helps make radiation-protected reactor parts, while reactors produce Green and Lime Materia, and their breakable components make automated repairs necessary. The final chapter combines every previously automated Materia type into Rainbow Materia and unlocks additional processes that give you reason to revisit and optimize earlier setups. If you run short on building space, this final chapter also offers additional room keys as an expensive fallback.