Block Router

The mod is an Alpha version, blocks, items and behavior can change.

This is your new mod, Block Router is a mod that add blocks that route things.

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I play modded minecraft since the beginning (when a mod was installed by overriding the java class in the jar). Sometime i need some behaviors that are only possible with mod contraptions (like Xnet with drawers with... other mods) so i decided to describe all these behaviors on this mod.

For the older (in modded mc), you probably have recognized the side of the icon texture, it look like the Router from Factorization. Your guess is right because its the same colors and almost the same shape. The router from Factorization transfer (scatter and retrieve) items from connected inventories ex: you place a bunch of furnace (from IC2) and a Router, you only need to put the things you want to smelt in the router, the block will automatically scatter and retrieve.

Available blocks

Router

The behavior described above is much simpler than my implementation. My implementation provide:

• Scatter and Retriever
• Patterns that allow to use more complex machines like Mekanism Infusing factory
• Allow insertion from different sides (extraction is always made from the Bottom)
• To require a precise number of the same item to process (ex: 1 coal AND 8 sand)
• The router will only detect machines that are the same and stacked on top.

Example of use:

Scatter & Retriever

• Scatter Or Retrieve
• Insert from the Top Or Extract from the bottom
• Will only detect machines that are the same and stacked on top.

Example of use: Retrieve items from drawers. Scatter 1 sapling on each drawers.

Pattern Encoder

• Allow creation of Patterns
• One ItemStack Per Side is Allowed

Example of use: Encode recipe to smelt raw gold in vanilla furnace

Buffer

• Keep and wait for a certain amount of the same item before allowing their extraction, then wait to be fully empty to switch to Insertion/Keep and wait.

Example of use: I need 15 Grass blocks, the rest will stay on the input slot (top) until the export slot (bottom) is empty.

Dispatcher router

Allow us to use multiblock machines (like pedestals or crafting walls) to craft things

Dispatcher Router

Vacuum router

Allow us to drop and pick up items on the ground as recipe.

Vacuum Router

Slot router

A test block if this feature can be usefull, it allow us to insert items on specific slots.

RoadMap

In the first place i want to test my implementation.

Then:

• Improve code and algorithm.
• Handle NBT as filter
• Add Energy generator (probably)
• Add Fluid Routers
• Add area block placers based on dispatcher pattern encoder
• Add area block breakers
• Implement transfer router with filters
• Implement phantom blocks (to access tile entities from other blocs)
• Display fake ItemStacks on the Pattern Encoder
• Implement Quantity Upgrade
• Implement Trading station
• Why not merge Items And Fluids