1 Introduction

2 Making the mocks  
2.1 CoLoRe: Cosmological Lognormal Realisations  
2.2 LyaCoLoRe  
2.3 Computational requirements  

3 Parameter tuning

4 Verifying the mocks  
4.1 Generating realisations  
4.2 Measuring correlation functions  
4.3 Fitting the correlation functions  

5 Adding secondary astrophysical effects  
5.1 Adding HCDs  
5.2 Including additional absorption transitions  
5.3 Testing astrophysical effects  

6 Summary & Conclusions