Tech Expansion is a mod that adds technical and industrial stuff to the game. Its purpose is to expand the progression of players in both singleplayer and multiplayer.
The mod only requires basic resources, so you can use it on any Vanilla/Curated map and on many workshop maps.

The mod adds structures, tools, weapons, clothes, and more stuff will come in the future (Makeshift vehicles).


You'll have to craft the basic material to start to craft useful stuff.
A lot of the receipes can be found in the crafting section once you have one of the supplies needed.

The most useful material is Steel, in order to craft it, you'll need Charcoal, which is crafted from any type of logs.

Once you have steel, you'll need blueprints to craft parts. These parts can be used to craft tools, buildables and other materials.
Blueprints can be crafted using a note and a pen (stick + charcoal)

Every metal (steel, copper, tin, lead) can be obtained with metal scraps and other stuff (charcoal, coal coke, chemicals, etc...)
Lithium is obtained by crushing bricks (with a sledge hammer) and treating the dust with chemicals (the salt can be used to craft chemicals)
Silicon is obtained by crushing glass (with a sledge hammer) and refining the crushed glass.


Crafting anything is straightforward once you know the receipe from the crafting menu. Despite that, I will still post the most important crafts in this guide.


Soul Star is the best material of the mod, it allows tons of end game crafts such as the Exo Vest.

In order to get Soul Star bars, you'll have to craft a Solar Horde Beacon, once placed on the ground, zombies will be more powerful like normal horde beacons. But this horde beacon will drop Soul Star Bars once the players have killed 100 zombies in that zone.

6 Soul Star bars can be crafter into a soul star core, which is used for the end game crafts.


The soul star bars and cores can be used to craft the best gear of the mod.
You'll first have to craft a blueprint for the Singularities and the Singularity assembler (tool).

The assembler is used to craft the singularity, which powers every end game stuff.

Then you'll be able to craft clothes (Helmet, vest, top, bottom, backpack) that have a lot of armor and storage.
You can also craft melee tools (A drill that can mine both metal nodes and trees, and a katana)

More stuff is coming!

1 Motor + 1 Lithium Battery + 2 Metal Sheet + 3 Metal Bar + 1 Soldering Iron (Not Consumed) = 1 Drill

2 Can + 3 Steel Bar + 1 Steel Wire + 3 Copper Wire = Soldering Iron (Image is wrong on the wires)

2 Metal Bar + 2 Steel Bar + 1 Steel Wire = Plier

5 Metal Scrap + 1 Charcoal (Can be obtained from logs) = 3 Steel

6 Metal Scrap + 1 Water Bottle + 1 Vehicle Battery (Not Consumed) = 3 Copper

6 Metal Scrap + 1 Water Bottle + 1 Lithium Battery (Not Consumed) = 5 Copper

4 Metal Scrap + 1 Chemical = 2 Tin

5 Metal Scrap + 1 Coal Coke (Obtained from Charcoal) = 3 Liquid Lead
2 Liquid Lead = 1 Lead

4 Crushed Brick (Obtained by crushing bricks with a sledge hammer) + 1 Chemical = 3 Lithium Salt
2 Lithium Salt = 1 Lithium

6 Crushed Glass (Obtained by crushing weak glass with a sledge hammer) + 1 Chemical = 1 Silicon

Supplies :

64001 - Refined Steel
64002 - Refined Copper
64003 - Refined Tin
64004 - Refined Lithium
64005 - Refined Lead
64006 - Charcoal
64007 - Coal Coke
64008 - Lithium Carbonate
64009 - Crushed Brick
64010 - Liquid Lead
64015 - Pencil
64016 - Steel Can
64017 - Steel Bar
64018 - Steel Gear
64019 - Steel Sheet
64020 - Steel Wire
64021 - Copper Bar
64022 - Copper Wire
64023 - Tin Bar
64024 - Tin Wire
64025 - Lithium Bar
64026 - Plier
64027 - Steel Magnet
64028 - Lithium Battery
64029 - Soldering Iron
64030 - Motor
64034 - Crushed Glass
64035 - Silicon
64036 - Silicon Sheet
64037 - Solar Cell
64038 - Circuit Board
64042 - Lead Bar
64043 - Soul Star Bar
64044 - Soul Star Core
64063 - Gunpowder
64068 - Singularity
64070 - Singularity Assembler

Blueprints :


64011 - Can Blueprint
64012 - Bars Blueprint
64013 - Gears Blueprint
64014 - Sheet Blueprint
64069 - Singularity Blueprint

Tools :

64031 - Drill
64032 - Electric Chainsaw
64033 - Electric Jackhammer
64071 - Soul Star Drilling Machine
64072 - Soulstar Katana
64078 - Fishing Rod

Clothes :

64039 - Reinforced Leather Bottom
64040 - Reinforced Leather Top
64045 - Exo Vest
64073 - Soul Bottom
64074 - Soul Top
64075 - Exo Helmet
64076 - Exo Pack

Barricades :

64041 - Solar Beacon
64061 - Soul Star Charge (WIP)
64062 - Steel Electric Vehicle Base
64064 - Steel Locker
64065 - Neutral Sentry
64066 - Friendly Sentry
64067 - Hostile Sentry
64077 - Steel Vulture Base
64087 - Soul Generator
64088 - Soul Storage

Structures :

64046 - Steel Doorway
64047 - Steel Floor
64048 - Steel Floor Triangle
64049 - Steel Garage
64050 - Steel Hole
64051 - Steel Pillar
64052 - Steel Post
64053 - Steel Ramp
64054 - Steel Rampart
64055 - Steel Roof
64056 - Steel Roof Triangle
64057 - Steel Stairs
64058 - Steel Wall
64059 - Steel Wall Ramp
64060 - Steel Window
64079 - Glass Doorway
64080 - Glass Garage
64081 - Glass Rampart
64082 - Glass Roof
64083 - Glass Roof Triangle
64084 - Glass Wall
64085 - Glass Wall Ramp
64086 - Glass Window