NeroLink Companion App

NeroTech plugs into NeroLink — the Neroland companion-app bridge — through Neroland Core's link API. When a server runs Core, NeroTech and the NeroLink bridge mod, the NeroLink phone/desktop app automatically gains a NeroTech section: your own machine progress, pollution, live meltdown warnings, and this very wiki, rendered in-app.

NeroTech itself ships no network server. It only registers what it exposes with Core's link registry (za.co.neroland.nerolandcore.link); the NeroLink bridge is the thing that serves it to app clients over its local API. If NeroLink is not installed, none of this runs and NeroTech plays exactly as before.

Privacy first (POPIA/GDPR). Everything personal the app can read is your own data only, scoped to your player UUID on the server. Pollution attribution is opt-out and off by default, and one data-erasure request purges every per-player thing NeroTech stores (see Consequence Systems).

What the app can read (data sections)#

What the app can do (actions)#

The server re-validates every action — the app holds no authority, and a compromised app can do no more than you could do in-game.

• set_pollution_attribution { "enabled": bool } — your own privacy control. enabled: false opts you out of having your pollution attributed; enabled: true opts back in. Works while you are offline. Because the server config exposes only a single global attribution flag, this is stored as a per-player opt-out layered on that flag: attribution happens only when the server has it on and you have not opted out. Your preference is erasable like any other player data.
• set_machine_preset { "dim", "x", "y", "z", "preset": "ECO"|"BALANCED"|"OVERDRIVE" } — set a machine's overclock preset remotely. The server requires that you are online, that the target is a live NeroTech machine, and that you own it. Ownership is taken from the machine's own owner record, which is only captured when per-player attribution was on at placement — so a machine placed with attribution off cannot be re-preset remotely (it is refused as not-owned). It reuses the exact same server-side preset path as the in-game GUI selector.

Live events & alerts#

NeroTech pushes live deltas onto Core's link event bus, and raises Core alerts (keyed to the nerotech module, surfaced in the app's alerts view):

• Pollution threshold — when your own attributed pollution first crosses the server's alert threshold (attribution on only): a player-scoped pollution event plus a WARN alert.
• Fusion meltdown / containment breach — a server-wide meltdown broadcast (world coordinates only, no personal data) plus a CRITICAL alert to the reactor's owner. See Fusion Reactor.

Progression#

NeroTech never locks a machine behind a progression gate: the mod plays fully standalone, and pacing comes from recipes and materials (see Advanced Tier). NeroTech still opens Core's ecosystem milestone industrial_power when you place your first machine — other Neroland mods may read that to enhance their content, never to restrict NeroTech's.

Enabling it as a player#

1. Play on a server that runs Neroland Core, NeroTech and the NeroLink bridge mod.
2. Pair the NeroLink app with the server (see the NeroLink docs) — you authenticate as your own player, so you only ever see your own data.
3. Open the NeroTech section. To share your pollution numbers, ask the admin to enable pollutionPerPlayerAttribution; you can still opt out any time from the app. To leave it private, do nothing — attribution is off by default.