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⚙️ Actually Additions: Advanced Machinery

Consolidate and accelerate your empowering setup with a single block.

Actually Additions: Advanced Machinery is a powerful NeoForge addon for Actually Additions that replaces the traditional, multi-block Empowerer setup with a single, highly efficient block. It features a custom cross-layout GUI, exponential speed and energy upgrade slots, and full sided automation compatibility.

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Advanced Empowerer GUI

JEI Integration Showcase

✨ Why Use Actually Additions: Advanced Machinery?

Space-Saving: Consolidate your entire Empowerer setup (1 Empowerer block + 4 Display Stands) into a single, compact block.
Exponential Upgrades: Dramatically increase speed or reduce energy consumption using up to 8 Speed and 8 Energy Upgrades.
Automation Friendly: Fully compatible with hoppers, pipes, and transport networks for streamlined processing lines.
Seamless JEI Integration: View recipes and transfer ingredients automatically with standard recipe-viewer support.

⚡ Quick Start

Craft the Advanced Empowerer block.
Place it in your world and connect a power source supplying Forge Energy (FE).
Right-click the block to open its custom GUI.
Place the base ingredient in the center slot and up to 4 modifier items in the surrounding cross slots.
Wait for the progress bar to complete and collect your empowered item from the output slot!

🎮 Main Features

Single-Block Empowering: Replaces the classic multi-block Empowerer setup with one clean block.
Cross-Layout GUI: Intuitive 5-slot input layout mirroring the Actually Additions Empowering recipe format (1 base slot + 4 modifier slots).
Dynamic Energy Buffer: Features a base capacity of 2,000,000 FE, which scales up to 20,000,000 FE when upgraded.
Dual Upgrade Slots: Supports dedicated Speed Upgrades (reducing tick duration) and Energy Upgrades (reducing consumption and expanding capacity).
Directional Placement: Rotates to face the player upon placement.
Inventory Safety: Safely drops all contained items (inputs, outputs, and upgrades) into the world when broken.

🔋 Upgrade Mechanics

Optimize your production line by installing Upgrades in the bottom-right slots of the Advanced Empowerer GUI (up to 8 of each type).

Speed Upgrade (Max 8): Reduces processing time. Speed multiplier scales exponentially: $$S(u) = 10^{\frac{u}{8}}$$ (At 8 upgrades, the machine operates at 10x speed, reducing the base 200-tick craft to just 20 ticks / 1 second).
Energy Upgrade (Max 8): Reduces energy consumption per operation and scales the internal energy capacity exponentially: $$\text{Capacity}(E) = 2,000,000 \times 10^{\frac{E}{8}}$$ (At 8 upgrades, the internal buffer increases to 20,000,000 FE, allowing the machine to easily absorb heavy energy spikes).
Combined Formula: Energy usage per tick is calculated as: $$\text{Usage} = \text{BaseUsage} \times 10^{\frac{2S - E}{8}}$$ Installing both 8 Speed Upgrades and 8 Energy Upgrades scales the tick consumption to a balanced level of approximately 500 FE/t.

Upgrade Scaling Table

The following table illustrates speed, time, and energy scaling for a base recipe of 50 FE/t (taking 200 ticks/10 seconds) with 0 Energy Upgrades installed:

Speed Upgrades	Speed Multiplier	Processing Time (ticks)	Energy Per Tick (FE/t)	Total Energy per Craft
0	1.00x	200 t	50 FE/t	10,000 FE
1	1.33x	149 t	88 FE/t	13,100 FE
2	1.78x	112 t	158 FE/t	17,700 FE
3	2.37x	84 t	281 FE/t	23,600 FE
4	3.16x	63 t	500 FE/t	31,500 FE
5	4.22x	47 t	889 FE/t	41,800 FE
6	5.62x	35 t	1,580 FE/t	55,300 FE
7	7.50x	26 t	2,810 FE/t	73,000 FE
8	10.00x	20 t	5,000 FE/t	100,000 FE

⚙️ Sided Automation

The Advanced Empowerer features full sided capability integration for hoppers, pipes, and conveyor systems:

Top & Sides: Allows inserting items into the 5 input slots (slot 2: Center base, slots 0, 1, 3, 4: Modifiers).
Bottom: Allows extracting items from the output slot (slot 5).
Upgrades: Slots 6 & 7 are intentionally isolated from automation networks and can only be inserted or removed manually.

📦 Requirements

Minecraft: 1.21.1
NeoForge: 21.1.223 or higher
Actually Additions: 1.3.1 or higher
Java: 21 or higher
JEI (Just Enough Items) (Optional - Recommended for recipe integration)

🔧 Installation

Install the appropriate version of NeoForge.
Download and place the Actually Additions mod jar into your mods folder.
Download and place this mod jar (advancedmachinery-*.jar) into your mods folder.
Launch the game or start your server!

🌐 Client/Server Behavior

Server: Required. Handles all energy logic, recipe validations, crafting operations, inventory interactions, and sided wrappers.
Client: Required. Renders the custom GUI screen, displays tooltip values, and integrates with JEI.

🤝 Compatibility & Modpack Notes

Designed to work alongside any standard NeoForge modpack.
Dynamically supports all custom recipes loaded by modpacks that register standard Actually Additions EmpowererRecipe types.
Fully compatible with JEI's auto-transfer (the "+" button) to quickly load recipes into the input slots.
Modpack creators are free to distribute this mod in their modpacks.

❗ Known Limitations

Automation pipes cannot insert or extract Upgrade Items (this must be performed manually by the player).
All modifier slots required for a recipe must be populated to begin crafting; partial setups will not consume energy or progress.

🧰 Troubleshooting

The machine is not processing!

Ensure the base item is located in the center input slot (slot 2) and all required modifiers are placed in the surrounding slots.
Verify the block is connected to power and has sufficient FE.
Check JEI to ensure the items inserted form a valid Empowerer recipe.
Make sure the output slot is not full.

Power runs out too quickly!

Speed Upgrades increase energy consumption exponentially. Balance this by installing Energy Upgrades, which increase the buffer capacity and reduce FE/t usage.

❓ FAQ

Is this compatible with custom recipes?

Yes! Any custom recipes added via datapacks or other addons that utilize Actually Additions' empowering recipe registry are automatically supported.

Can I automate this block with hoppers?

Yes. Feed ingredients into the top or sides of the block and extract the finished product from the bottom face.

Can I use this in my modpack?

Absolutely. The mod is released under the MIT License and is fully modpack-friendly.

💬 Support & Feedback

When reporting bugs or requesting support, please include the following:

Mod version
NeoForge, Minecraft, and Actually Additions versions
A list of other installed mods (or the modpack name)
Precise steps to reproduce the issue
The latest debug.log or crash report

Made for players who want to build streamlined, high-speed factories without the space constraints of classic empowering setups.

Actually Additions - Advanced Machinery