Pipster

Readable pipes for items, fluids, gas and energy, with filters right at the port and channel-based tesseracts. Works on Fabric and NeoForge.

Why Pipster?

• Pipes look like pipes. Every pipe and cable is a real, narrow shape (no full blocks), with a clear flange where it connects to a machine.
• Four kinds, five tiers. Item pipes, fluid pipes, gas pipes and energy cables, each from Copper (T1) to Quantum (T5). Upgrade placed pipes in place with a bolt; they keep their settings and contents.
• Filters live in the port. No filter blocks in the way. Put a filter card straight into the port where the pipe meets the machine.
• Tesseracts. Send resources through named channels: any distance in one dimension (Resonant) or across all dimensions (Quantum). Channels are private, invite-only or public.
• Built for servers. Everything runs on the server in bounded steps. Pipes do not tick, and Pipster never loads chunks.

Tiers

• Copper: 2 items/t, 100 mB/t, 1,000 E/t
• Reinforced: 8 items/t, 400 mB/t, 8,000 E/t
• Precision: 32 items/t, 1,600 mB/t, 64,000 E/t
• Resonant: 128 items/t, 6,400 mB/t, 512,000 E/t
• Quantum: 512 items/t, 25,600 mB/t, 4,096,000 E/t

Gas pipes move as much gas per tick as fluid pipes move mB. Throughput is shared per pipe segment, so a bottleneck is a real bottleneck. No creative tier that ignores limits.

The Conduit Wrench

• Right-click a port: mode (insert, extract, both, off), redstone control, priority, distribution (round robin, nearest, sticky)
• Sneak + right-click an arm: disconnect just that side; the same on the centre reconnects it, elsewhere it dismantles the pipe
• Copy and paste port settings with 3 profiles (cards are never copied)

Filter Cards

• Basic (9 rules): exact item, fluid or gas; allowlist or denylist
• Advanced (27 rules): tags, whole mods, exact components such as enchantments
• Precision (54 rules): "keep 64 in the source", "fill the target up to 256"
• Rule Card: per-port rate limit and energy reserve

Patterns are ghost items: nothing is used up.

Tesseracts

• Resonant Tesseract: any distance, same dimension, T4 speed
• Quantum Tesseract: all dimensions of the server, T5 speed
• One channel per resource type per tesseract, access control per channel, filters per side

Compatibility

Pipster connects to other mods through the standard interfaces of each loader:

• Fabric: Transfer API for items and fluids, Team Reborn Energy for energy (included)
• NeoForge: item, fluid and energy capabilities
• Gas: Pipster's own small gas API, and fluids you tag as #pipster:gaseous

Built-in optional support

None of these is required. Install them and Pipster uses them:

• Jade: see port mode and status by looking at a pipe; tesseract channels only if you have access
• CC: Tweaked: computers read pipes and tesseracts; with the redstone mode "Computer" they switch ports
• Open Parties and Claims, FTB Chunks: pipes respect claims, nobody pipes out of your claimed chests
• FTB Teams, OPAC parties: teammates share channels, tesseracts and pipes, also ones placed earlier
• LuckPerms and other permission mods: nodes pipster.admin and pipster.command (operators keep them without a permission mod)
• The Conduit Wrench counts as a wrench for other mods (c:tools/wrench)

Which Minecraft versions have which integration is listed in the wiki.

Honest limits:

• Mekanism chemicals are not supported yet.
• Tested by hand together with Energized Power, Storage Drawers, Sophisticated Storage, Oritech, Create and Immersive Engineering. That is not a promise that every mod works; please report problems.

Versions

Minecraft 1.21.1 to 26.3, Fabric and NeoForge. Some files cover a few neighbouring Minecraft versions (for example 1.21.2 – 1.21.4), but only where that very file was started and tested on each of them: client and server start, automated game tests for transport, throughput limits, filters, tesseracts, claims and teams, saving and loading, plus a manual test round. Please pick the file whose name contains your Minecraft version.

Some Minecraft versions only have NeoForge beta builds (1.21.2, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.9, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.3); Pipster was tested with those betas.

Performance

Measured on an Intel Core i7-13700H with dedicated 1.21.1 and 26.3 servers, both loaders:

• 10,000 idle pipes: about 0.01 ms per tick
• 10,000 pipes with 100 active ports: about 0.8 – 1.4 ms per tick (95th percentile)
• 50,000 pipes with 500 active ports: about 3.7 – 5.2 ms per tick (95th percentile)

That is one machine and a few test scenes, not a promise for every server.

Requirements

• Fabric: Fabric API. Team Reborn Energy is included.
• NeoForge: nothing else.
• Install on both client and server.
• Optional: Jade, CC: Tweaked, Open Parties and Claims, FTB Chunks, FTB Teams, a permission mod.

Links

• Wiki: https://github.com/CptGummiball/Pipster/wiki
• API for mod developers: https://github.com/CptGummiball/Pipster/blob/main/api/README.md
• Issues: https://github.com/CptGummiball/Pipster/issues

Modpacks

You may include Pipster in any modpack, public or private, free or paid, as long as the jar files stay exactly as published.

License

Pipster is made by cptgummiball (bandlaufwerk at curseforge) . All rights reserved: modifying, decompiling or re-uploading Pipster outside of modpacks is not allowed. Mod developers may compile against the Pipster API. Full license: https://github.com/CptGummiball/Pipster/blob/main/LICENSE