GregTech: New Horizons
Ranked 2 of 5 game mods by recommenders
Polished, long-running Minecraft modpack with many quality-of-life fixes and realistic energy and oil processing. Its most common caveat is that a large AE2 craft can still break.
9 people recommended GregTech: New Horizons in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 17 comments.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- mixed feelings
- 2
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 4 of 12 months
In 5 different threads.
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 5 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 44% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 17 of the 18 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Polished and well maintained
“It's extremely well polished, and I've played enough that it's nearly impossible for me to play Minecraft without playing GT:NH”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped” “GT:NH is a very interesting software project in itself, a long-living open source environment”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped” “The level of care and work there is incredible”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3” Realistic factory and energy systems
“a fair amount of GregTech really reframed my viewpoint on energy production”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “How an Oil Refinery Works” “He was just ahead of its time in terms of grind and realism.”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3” “fairly realistic oil processing lines”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “How an Oil Refinery Works” Many quality-of-life fixes
“it actually has tons and tons of quality of life fixes to the various mods that make it up”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped” “they've automated and standardized all that. It was just download, fix and build.”
Comment from 20 Jul 2026 in “Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3” Hard to stop playing
“cannot play without the QoL mods from GT:NH for long”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Can break large AE2 crafts
“it can still utterly mess up a large craft being orchestrated thru AE2”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped”
Other game mods people recommend
The four most recommended other game mods, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quake Brutalist Jam III | 12 | 0 | 2 | 86% | 5 | — | — |
| GregTech: New HorizonsThis page | 9 | 2 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Arcane Dimensions (Quake mod) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| Tamriel Rebuilt | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
| IKEA Skyrim mod | 6 | 1 | 3 | 67% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
17 of the 18 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“cannot play without the QoL mods from GT:NH for long”
“He was just ahead of its time in terms of grind and realism.”
“Thanks to the Gregtech New Horizon folks.”
“they've automated and standardized all that. It was just download, fix and build.”
“the quest book is phenomenal and the feeling of accomplishment is real”
“The level of care and work there is incredible”
“a fair amount of GregTech really reframed my viewpoint on energy production”
“fairly realistic oil processing lines”
“they are both small extensions to existing software”
“GT:NH is a very interesting software project in itself, a long-living open source environment”
“It's extremely well polished, and I've played enough that it's nearly impossible for me to play Minecraft without playing GT:NH”
“it actually has tons and tons of quality of life fixes to the various mods that make it up”
“it can still utterly mess up a large craft being orchestrated thru AE2”
“GTNH is on the very short list.”
“it won’t finish the craft but it WILL wait for power”
“even it doesn't void your machine's items unless you break the machine itself”
“the whole system is pretty interesting”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.