Minecraft Java 1.12.2 · IndustrialCraft 2 · BuildCraft
“We're back, baby!” — the server's message of the day
A small modded Minecraft server where two friends took a perfectly nice landscape and wired it up. Generators, cables, quarries and a nuclear reactor. Everyone is welcome. Keep it cool. Don't touch the reactors.
01 Control room
Live from the server, checked once a minute. It's the same thing your multiplayer screen sees.
Checking the server…
ownd.dk
ownd.dkWho's on
Bonitzenator
mpalm8802 The idea
Vanilla Minecraft gives you a furnace and a pickaxe. Modded Minecraft gives you a power grid.
On ownd.dk we play IndustrialCraft 2 and BuildCraft, two of the classic tech mods, on good old Java. You start by tapping rubber trees for resin. A few days later you're laying cable across the map, a quarry is quietly eating a hole in the world, and somebody has started talking about uranium.
That's the whole game. Build something that builds things for you. Then make it bigger. Then don't touch it.
Tap rubber trees for sticky resin. Resin becomes rubber, and rubber insulates your cables.
Burns coal and makes EU, IC2's electricity. Every grid starts here.
Crushes one ore into two crushed ore. Twice the iron. Instantly worth it.
Smelting with electricity. No coal, no babysitting. More on this below.
BuildCraft's engine-driven wooden pipes pull items out and stone pipes carry them on. The base starts moving by itself.
A yellow-and-black frame that digs a big square hole to bedrock all on its own. Bring chests.
Ridiculous amounts of power. Ridiculous amounts of heat. Look, don't touch.
03 The mods
IC2 runs on EU and BuildCraft runs on MJ. Two separate grids means twice the cables, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
Experimental 2.8.170
Electricity, done properly. Power travels as EU through copper, gold and glass-fibre cables, and it comes in voltages. Machines crush, compress, extract and smelt. There are electric drills, chainsaws, jetpacks, crops you can breed, and nuclear power.
Real talk: send a machine more voltage than it can take and it explodes. Some servers turn that off. Ours has it switched on.
8.0.0, all modules
Automation with style. Pipes move items and fluids, engines make MJ, quarries dig on their own, pumps and tanks handle oil, and the Builder copies whole structures from a blueprint.
Real talk: nothing beats watching a quarry frame build itself for the first time.
04 The crew
Two players, two very different ways to play. The numbers come straight from the server's own statistics, as of 10 November 2026.
Chief engineer · grid architect
Wires everything. Then wires it again, tidier.
Master builder · head of livestock
If it's made of stone bricks, it's probably mpalm88's.
05 Our favourite machine
Out of every machine in IndustrialCraft 2, our favourite is the plainest one.
The Electric Furnace does what a furnace does, only with electricity. No coal, no wood, no running back to refuel it. Hook it up to the grid, feed it ore and collect the ingots. It's quiet, it's reliable, and it doesn't ask for anything.
Yes, the Induction Furnace is faster once it warms up. We know. We don't care.
Try it. Turn on the generator and load some ore. One tip: it's a low-voltage (LV) machine, so keep it on LV. Or don't. It's your furnace.
You got OWND.
The furnace took 512 EU/t through its little LV input and turned into a crater. That's a real IC2 thing, and it's switched on here.
The generator is off. Turn it on and load some ore.
Your pocket is empty.
06 House rule #3
Bonitzenator has crafted 165 nuclear items, the reactor is tuned, and every vent sits where it should. Please don't “just have a look”. Our server caps a reactor explosion at power 45. TNT is 4.
Status: nominal. Everything is fine. Please keep it that way.
Go on, we know you will. Pull out a heat vent or a coolant cell and the reactor makes more heat than it can get rid of. Put them back to save it. Cutting the redstone signal shuts the reactor down.
Don't pick up the uranium. You're not wearing a hazmat suit.
Meltdowns caused by you: 0
07 House rules
No whitelist and no application form. Bring friends. If you're lost, ask in chat and someone will show you where the treetap goes.
Be nice in chat. Don't grief, don't take what isn't yours, and ask before you plug into somebody else's grid. PvP is on, but this isn't that kind of server.
Not to “just have a look”. Not to “add one more rod”. Not even in a hazmat suit. Seriously.
08 Join us
About ten minutes of setup, then you're in.
The server checks accounts with Mojang, so you need a real Java Edition account. Bedrock, console and phone versions can't join.
Install Forge 14.23.5.2864 for 1.12.2. The easy way is Prism Launcher: make a new 1.12.2 instance and add Forge to it.
Put these two files in your mods folder. The versions must match the server, or Forge won't let you in.
industrialcraft-2-2.8.170-ex112.jarbuildcraft-all-8.0.0.jarMultiplayer, Add Server, and type in the address. That's it.
The reactor hull went past 10,000 heat. On our server that's an explosion of power 45, and the base is now a very large hole. This is exactly why rule #3 exists.