Creations made by players:
Minecraft, the open-source, Java-built, voxel videogame developed by Mojang, is this generation's equivalent of LEGO. Within the game, players are free to build, destroy, and change everything according to their will, producing an incredible canvas for creativity and tinkering. The world of Minecraft is made of blocks, which, just like LEGO bricks, can be arranged in a near-infinite number of ways, to serve a near-infinite number of purposes.
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Thanks to its open-source nature, and highly modular codebase, hobbyist developers have spent the last 14 years at creating mods, which are externally-developed modules that introduce or change game features with little to no limitations on what's possible, and massively increasing the order of magnitude of things that are possible within the game. These mods can then be combined into each other into modpacks to create finely-tailored experiences with a specific theme or fil rouge.
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The prolific mod and modpack development scene over the years has produced a huge breadth of products, including a new videogame genre, the factory-simulation game. In this type of game, players progress by building factories, composed by machines and logistical systems, that process resources into other resources. Born as a Minecraft mod called Industrialcraft, this genre is now common in many popular standalone games such as Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program.
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Meatballcraft, Dimensional Ascension is a modpack centered around the factory-simulation gameplay, combined with exploration and role-playing elements from games like Skyrim.
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Born as a project to pass time during the COVID lockdown, this modpack has gone public on the website CurseForge as an open alpha in 2021, and since then it has been played by tens of thousands of users. It is currently in a beta state, where players are free to provide feedback or report bugs through the Discord messaging app.