Respect typical manufacturing rules (you can't really make a steel girder by hand!) Require some degree of appropriate advanced knowledge (e.g. It does things that the real-life version not only cannot do, but is unlikely to be able to I'd say its safe to turn a blind eye to solar panels, nuclear reactors, turbines, and thermal generators since to my knowledge there is no quantized radiation, mass/energy equivalence, or temperature, and fluids are just screwed up in general in minecraft If, self contained, it violates conservation laws (no free lunch/RF/etc) If the technology would normally require electricity but doesn't in game The criteria of realism I am defining here is somewhat loose, but in general I would call the following 'unrealistic': Many of the mods copied from the list from the post from 3 years ago may fall into this category-please don't hesitate to point such mods out! I do want this to be a relevant list though, so if there is a mod listed below that is not compatible with modern Minecraft releases, then I will remove it. If there is any dispute about the 'realism' of a mod, I won't remove it. If you don't think one of the mods listed below is particularly realistic, please leave a comment and I will remove it, putting at the bottom with other removed mods. I don't have much personal experience with the majority of these mods, so if you have a personal anecdote, please, leave a comment! I have also removed mods from the other post that are not science or tech based. To start off, I have included and alphabetized the mods listed by the aforementioned thread and a few mods I think belong here, which I will update with information as it is provided. Below, I will be compiling a table from the responses with the title of the mod, a link to its documentation, what it does well, and what is unrealistic/aspects that are treated with greater realism by other mods. To start off, I found this thread from 3 years ago which purports to contain some realistic mods. My question for you all is what science/tech mods most realistically portray the discipline/technology they are inspired by? There has been a good amount of discussion in the past about which of these are the most enjoyable/easiest/go best with other mods, but here I would like to discuss primarily the realism of these mods. It seems over the past few years that mod developers have embraced a wide range of approaches to STEM-oriented mods, some opting for realism, while others just want to provide creative means to raze villages.

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