B'Quarry

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B'Quarry

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A Forge and Fabric technology mod featuring an upgradeable Quarry, power generation, processing machines, modular storage, and configurable item, energy and fluid networks.

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Description

B'Quarry

B'Quarry has grown from a single automatic mining machine into a complete technical automation mod for Minecraft Forge and Fabric.

Build automated processing lines, generate and store energy, transport items and fluids, configure machine inputs and outputs, automate creature and crop resources, manipulate enchantments and store thousands of items inside an expandable digital network.

Main Features

  • Available for both Forge and Fabric
  • Automatic and fully upgradeable Quarry
  • Energy generation, storage and distribution
  • Automated ore processing
  • Item and fluid transportation networks
  • Selectable enchantment extraction and application
  • Creature-resource automation
  • Automatic crop farming
  • Expandable digital storage and crafting
  • Configurable machine input and output sides
  • Support for inventories, hoppers and compatible automation mods
  • JEI and EMI integration
  • Guided advancement progression
  • Custom industrial textures, interfaces, recipes and tooltips
  • English and Brazilian Portuguese translations

The Quarry

The Quarry automatically mines blocks in the direction it is facing and stores the collected resources in its internal inventory.

Its features include:

  • Directional automatic mining
  • Visible mining-area boundaries
  • Large internal output inventory
  • Automatic output to inventories placed above it
  • Buffered resources are transferred before newly mined drops
  • Redstone control for pausing and resuming
  • External energy support
  • Upgrade slots dedicated to Quarry progression

Quarry Upgrades

Drilling Upgrades

Increase the mining speed of the Quarry. There are ten increasingly powerful and expensive tiers.

Fortune Upgrades

Increase the number of resources obtained through normal mining and improve the rewards produced by Void Upgrades. There are ten tiers.

Area Upgrades

Increase the Quarry's mining area:

  • Level I: 5×5
  • Level II: 9×9
  • Level III: 16×16
  • Level IV: 24×24
  • Level V: 32×32

Silk Touch Upgrade

Allows the Quarry to collect blocks using Silk Touch. It requires an enchanted Silk Touch book to craft.

Void Upgrades

Allow the Quarry to generate resources without destroying blocks in the world.

  • Void I provides basic resource generation
  • Void II adds Nether-related resources
  • Void III provides access to rarer resources

The final Void tier is intended as an expensive endgame upgrade.

Anchor Upgrade

Keeps the Quarry and its working area active even when the player moves away.

Power Generation

B'Quarry includes three different generators:

Combustion Generator

Produces energy from furnace-compatible fuels. It is an accessible option for early automation.

Magmatic Generator

Produces energy from lava and offers a stronger, more consistent source of power.

Solar Generator

Produces energy from sunlight. It is designed as a clean late-game generator and can be improved with Generator Power Upgrades.

All generators can connect to B'Quarry energy cables and compatible energy systems from other mods.

Energy Storage

Modular Energy Cell

Stores and distributes energy.

Connected Energy Cells automatically combine into a larger storage network, allowing the system to grow without requiring a separate multiblock controller.

Processing Machines

Electric Furnace

Uses energy to process standard furnace recipes and supports automatic item input and output.

Electric Crusher

Crushes raw materials and ores into products used by the processing chain.

Industrial Washer

Processes crushed minerals into refined dusts and may produce additional tiny-dust byproducts.

Industrial Press

Produces metal plates, gears and other compressed components.

Automatic Assembler

Automatically crafts configured recipes using ingredients supplied through its inventory or connected automation.

Enchantment Technology

Arcane Extractor

Removes one selected enchantment from an item and transfers it to a book.

The machine supports registered enchantments from Minecraft and other mods, including curses.

Runic Matrix

Replaces random enchanting with direct selection.

Insert a compatible item, choose the enchantment and level, and provide energy, lapis lazuli and player experience. Treasure enchantments are supported.

Item input and output are intentionally manual.

Biological Automation

Biological Capsules

Capture creature data by defeating a compatible creature while carrying an empty capsule in the hotbar or offhand.

Five capsule tiers are available:

  • Iron
  • Gold
  • Diamond
  • Netherite
  • Echo

Each tier supports creatures within a different health range and provides a different number of simulation uses.

Biological Simulator

Produces resources from a registered creature without requiring a physical mob farm.

Each simulation consumes:

  • Energy
  • Organic Nutrient
  • One capsule use

The simulator supports compatible creatures from other mods, regular loot tables and many special drops generated outside normal loot tables.

A dedicated Looting Upgrade can improve its output.

JEI can automatically show which registered creatures may produce a selected item.

Crop Automation

Electric Cultivator

Harvests and replants crops in a 5×5 area in front of the machine.

Water and Organic Nutrient can be supplied to accelerate plant growth. The Cultivator supports standard crops, vertical crops and plants such as melons and pumpkins that grow beside their stems.

Digital Storage

Digital Storage Terminal

Provides searchable access to every item stored in the connected network.

Items can be:

  • Searched by name
  • Sorted by name, quantity or mod
  • Inserted and extracted through normal inventory interactions
  • Browsed through multiple pages

The selected sorting mode is saved for each player, and the terminal requires energy to access or display the network contents.

Storage Drive

Each Storage Drive accepts up to eight Digital Storage Cells.

Available cells:

  • 4K Storage Cell
  • 16K Storage Cell
  • 64K Storage Cell
  • 256K Storage Cell

Cells have both item-capacity and item-type limits. Their contents remain stored when removed and reinstalled in the same world.

Additional drives and cells can be connected to expand the network.

Digital Crafting Terminal

Combines digital storage access with a persistent 3×3 crafting grid.

The JEI recipe-transfer button can fill recipes using ingredients from the storage network. Partially available recipes fill the ingredients that exist and display ghost previews for those still missing.

Items remain in the crafting grid when the terminal is closed.

Digital Storage Interface

Connects the digital network to item automation.

Each face can be configured for:

  • Import
  • Export
  • Import and export
  • Disabled operation

Export connections support reusable item filters.

Digital Network Cable

Connects Storage Drives, Digital Storage Terminals, Digital Crafting Terminals and Digital Storage Interfaces into one network.

Individual cable connections can be cut or restored using the Quarry Wrench.

Fluid System

Electric Pump

Uses energy to collect fluid source blocks below it and sends the collected fluid through connected tanks or fluid cables.

Modular Fluid Tank

Stores fluids and automatically combines its capacity with adjacent B'Quarry tanks.

Fluid Cables

Transfer fluids between pumps, tanks, machines and compatible fluid handlers.

Transport Networks

Energy Cables

Transfer energy between generators, storage cells, machines and compatible blocks from other mods.

Item Cables

Move items between inventories and machines. Connections can be configured for insertion or extraction.

Filtered insertion points are prioritized, while unfiltered connections work as general-purpose destinations for remaining items.

Fluid Cables

Move fluids between compatible tanks and machines.

Cable connections can be changed with the Quarry Wrench.

Item Filters

The reusable Item Filter tool configures which items an item-cable connection or Digital Storage Interface may transfer.

Filters can operate as whitelists or blacklists. Items can be selected directly from the inventory or dragged from supported recipe viewers such as JEI and EMI.

The configured item is not consumed.

Machine Upgrades

Processing machines, generators and specialized machines have dedicated upgrades:

  • Machine Speed Upgrades increase processing speed
  • Energy Efficiency Upgrades reduce machine energy consumption
  • Generator Power Upgrades increase energy production
  • Fuel Efficiency Upgrades extend the value of consumed fuel
  • Looting Upgrades improve Biological Simulator drops

Multiple copies can be installed to strengthen their effects.

Quarry Wrench

The Quarry Wrench is the main configuration tool for machines and networks.

It can be used to:

  • Rotate supported machines
  • Reset or display the Quarry's mining area
  • Configure machine faces
  • Change cable transfer modes
  • Disconnect individual cable connections
  • Configure Digital Storage Interface sides

Machine I/O

Compatible machines include a side-configuration interface.

Each face can be configured for input, output or disabled operation, allowing machines to work with:

  • B'Quarry item and fluid cables
  • Hoppers and vanilla inventories
  • Compatible pipes and automation systems from other mods

Mod Integration

JEI

JEI displays B'Quarry processing recipes, Biological Simulator drops and supports automatic Digital Crafting Terminal recipe transfer.

EMI

EMI displays supported processing recipes and can be used to configure ghost items inside reusable filters.

Energy Compatibility

Forge

B'Quarry uses Forge Energy and can exchange power with compatible Forge machines, generators, batteries and cables.

Fabric

B'Quarry uses Team Reborn Energy and can exchange power with compatible Fabric technology mods.

The Team Reborn Energy API is bundled inside the Fabric file and does not need to be installed separately.

Requirements

Forge

  • Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Java 17
  • Forge 47.2.1 or newer for Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Architectury API 9.1.12 or newer

Fabric

  • Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Java 17
  • Fabric Loader 0.14.23 or newer
  • Fabric API
  • Architectury API 9.1.12 or newer

Recommended

JEI on Forge or EMI on Fabric is recommended for browsing machine recipes, upgrade recipes and the complete processing chain.

JEI is currently recommended when using the Biological Simulator or Digital Crafting Terminal integrations.

Updating

Updating from 1.2.0

Existing worlds and machines remain supported.

Version 1.3.0 rebalances generator output and item, fluid and energy network transfer rates. Existing networks may operate more slowly and may require additional planning.

Back up important worlds before updating any modded installation.

Updating from 1.0.x

Version 1.2.0 introduced a major internal and visual rewrite.

For maximum safety, empty placed Quarries and pick them up before replacing a 1.0.x mod file.

Modpacks

You are free to include B'Quarry in modpacks.

B'Quarry

B'Quarry has grown from a single automatic mining machine into a complete technical automation mod for Minecraft Forge and Fabric.

Build automated processing lines, generate and store energy, transport items and fluids, configure machine inputs and outputs, automate creature and crop resources, manipulate enchantments and store thousands of items inside an expandable digital network.

Main Features

  • Available for both Forge and Fabric
  • Automatic and fully upgradeable Quarry
  • Energy generation, storage and distribution
  • Automated ore processing
  • Item and fluid transportation networks
  • Selectable enchantment extraction and application
  • Creature-resource automation
  • Automatic crop farming
  • Expandable digital storage and crafting
  • Configurable machine input and output sides
  • Support for inventories, hoppers and compatible automation mods
  • JEI and EMI integration
  • Guided advancement progression
  • Custom industrial textures, interfaces, recipes and tooltips
  • English and Brazilian Portuguese translations

The Quarry

The Quarry automatically mines blocks in the direction it is facing and stores the collected resources in its internal inventory.

Its features include:

  • Directional automatic mining
  • Visible mining-area boundaries
  • Large internal output inventory
  • Automatic output to inventories placed above it
  • Buffered resources are transferred before newly mined drops
  • Redstone control for pausing and resuming
  • External energy support
  • Upgrade slots dedicated to Quarry progression

Quarry Upgrades

Drilling Upgrades

Increase the mining speed of the Quarry. There are ten increasingly powerful and expensive tiers.

Fortune Upgrades

Increase the number of resources obtained through normal mining and improve the rewards produced by Void Upgrades. There are ten tiers.

Area Upgrades

Increase the Quarry's mining area:

  • Level I: 5×5
  • Level II: 9×9
  • Level III: 16×16
  • Level IV: 24×24
  • Level V: 32×32

Silk Touch Upgrade

Allows the Quarry to collect blocks using Silk Touch. It requires an enchanted Silk Touch book to craft.

Void Upgrades

Allow the Quarry to generate resources without destroying blocks in the world.

  • Void I provides basic resource generation
  • Void II adds Nether-related resources
  • Void III provides access to rarer resources

The final Void tier is intended as an expensive endgame upgrade.

Anchor Upgrade

Keeps the Quarry and its working area active even when the player moves away.

Power Generation

B'Quarry includes three different generators:

Combustion Generator

Produces energy from furnace-compatible fuels. It is an accessible option for early automation.

Magmatic Generator

Produces energy from lava and offers a stronger, more consistent source of power.

Solar Generator

Produces energy from sunlight. It is designed as a clean late-game generator and can be improved with Generator Power Upgrades.

All generators can connect to B'Quarry energy cables and compatible energy systems from other mods.

Energy Storage

Modular Energy Cell

Stores and distributes energy.

Connected Energy Cells automatically combine into a larger storage network, allowing the system to grow without requiring a separate multiblock controller.

Processing Machines

Electric Furnace

Uses energy to process standard furnace recipes and supports automatic item input and output.

Electric Crusher

Crushes raw materials and ores into products used by the processing chain.

Industrial Washer

Processes crushed minerals into refined dusts and may produce additional tiny-dust byproducts.

Industrial Press

Produces metal plates, gears and other compressed components.

Automatic Assembler

Automatically crafts configured recipes using ingredients supplied through its inventory or connected automation.

Enchantment Technology

Arcane Extractor

Removes one selected enchantment from an item and transfers it to a book.

The machine supports registered enchantments from Minecraft and other mods, including curses.

Runic Matrix

Replaces random enchanting with direct selection.

Insert a compatible item, choose the enchantment and level, and provide energy, lapis lazuli and player experience. Treasure enchantments are supported.

Item input and output are intentionally manual.

Biological Automation

Biological Capsules

Capture creature data by defeating a compatible creature while carrying an empty capsule in the hotbar or offhand.

Five capsule tiers are available:

  • Iron
  • Gold
  • Diamond
  • Netherite
  • Echo

Each tier supports creatures within a different health range and provides a different number of simulation uses.

Biological Simulator

Produces resources from a registered creature without requiring a physical mob farm.

Each simulation consumes:

  • Energy
  • Organic Nutrient
  • One capsule use

The simulator supports compatible creatures from other mods, regular loot tables and many special drops generated outside normal loot tables.

A dedicated Looting Upgrade can improve its output.

JEI can automatically show which registered creatures may produce a selected item.

Crop Automation

Electric Cultivator

Harvests and replants crops in a 5×5 area in front of the machine.

Water and Organic Nutrient can be supplied to accelerate plant growth. The Cultivator supports standard crops, vertical crops and plants such as melons and pumpkins that grow beside their stems.

Digital Storage

Digital Storage Terminal

Provides searchable access to every item stored in the connected network.

Items can be:

  • Searched by name
  • Sorted by name, quantity or mod
  • Inserted and extracted through normal inventory interactions
  • Browsed through multiple pages

The selected sorting mode is saved for each player, and the terminal requires energy to access or display the network contents.

Storage Drive

Each Storage Drive accepts up to eight Digital Storage Cells.

Available cells:

  • 4K Storage Cell
  • 16K Storage Cell
  • 64K Storage Cell
  • 256K Storage Cell

Cells have both item-capacity and item-type limits. Their contents remain stored when removed and reinstalled in the same world.

Additional drives and cells can be connected to expand the network.

Digital Crafting Terminal

Combines digital storage access with a persistent 3×3 crafting grid.

The JEI recipe-transfer button can fill recipes using ingredients from the storage network. Partially available recipes fill the ingredients that exist and display ghost previews for those still missing.

Items remain in the crafting grid when the terminal is closed.

Digital Storage Interface

Connects the digital network to item automation.

Each face can be configured for:

  • Import
  • Export
  • Import and export
  • Disabled operation

Export connections support reusable item filters.

Digital Network Cable

Connects Storage Drives, Digital Storage Terminals, Digital Crafting Terminals and Digital Storage Interfaces into one network.

Individual cable connections can be cut or restored using the Quarry Wrench.

Fluid System

Electric Pump

Uses energy to collect fluid source blocks below it and sends the collected fluid through connected tanks or fluid cables.

Modular Fluid Tank

Stores fluids and automatically combines its capacity with adjacent B'Quarry tanks.

Fluid Cables

Transfer fluids between pumps, tanks, machines and compatible fluid handlers.

Transport Networks

Energy Cables

Transfer energy between generators, storage cells, machines and compatible blocks from other mods.

Item Cables

Move items between inventories and machines. Connections can be configured for insertion or extraction.

Filtered insertion points are prioritized, while unfiltered connections work as general-purpose destinations for remaining items.

Fluid Cables

Move fluids between compatible tanks and machines.

Cable connections can be changed with the Quarry Wrench.

Item Filters

The reusable Item Filter tool configures which items an item-cable connection or Digital Storage Interface may transfer.

Filters can operate as whitelists or blacklists. Items can be selected directly from the inventory or dragged from supported recipe viewers such as JEI and EMI.

The configured item is not consumed.

Machine Upgrades

Processing machines, generators and specialized machines have dedicated upgrades:

  • Machine Speed Upgrades increase processing speed
  • Energy Efficiency Upgrades reduce machine energy consumption
  • Generator Power Upgrades increase energy production
  • Fuel Efficiency Upgrades extend the value of consumed fuel
  • Looting Upgrades improve Biological Simulator drops

Multiple copies can be installed to strengthen their effects.

Quarry Wrench

The Quarry Wrench is the main configuration tool for machines and networks.

It can be used to:

  • Rotate supported machines
  • Reset or display the Quarry's mining area
  • Configure machine faces
  • Change cable transfer modes
  • Disconnect individual cable connections
  • Configure Digital Storage Interface sides

Machine I/O

Compatible machines include a side-configuration interface.

Each face can be configured for input, output or disabled operation, allowing machines to work with:

  • B'Quarry item and fluid cables
  • Hoppers and vanilla inventories
  • Compatible pipes and automation systems from other mods

Mod Integration

JEI

JEI displays B'Quarry processing recipes, Biological Simulator drops and supports automatic Digital Crafting Terminal recipe transfer.

EMI

EMI displays supported processing recipes and can be used to configure ghost items inside reusable filters.

Energy Compatibility

Forge

B'Quarry uses Forge Energy and can exchange power with compatible Forge machines, generators, batteries and cables.

Fabric

B'Quarry uses Team Reborn Energy and can exchange power with compatible Fabric technology mods.

The Team Reborn Energy API is bundled inside the Fabric file and does not need to be installed separately.

Requirements

Forge

  • Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Java 17
  • Forge 47.2.1 or newer for Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Architectury API 9.1.12 or newer

Fabric

  • Minecraft 1.20.1
  • Java 17
  • Fabric Loader 0.14.23 or newer
  • Fabric API
  • Architectury API 9.1.12 or newer

Recommended

JEI on Forge or EMI on Fabric is recommended for browsing machine recipes, upgrade recipes and the complete processing chain.

JEI is currently recommended when using the Biological Simulator or Digital Crafting Terminal integrations.

Updating

Updating from 1.2.0

Existing worlds and machines remain supported.

Version 1.3.0 rebalances generator output and item, fluid and energy network transfer rates. Existing networks may operate more slowly and may require additional planning.

Back up important worlds before updating any modded installation.

Updating from 1.0.x

Version 1.2.0 introduced a major internal and visual rewrite.

For maximum safety, empty placed Quarries and pick them up before replacing a 1.0.x mod file.

Modpacks

You are free to include B'Quarry in modpacks.