Beamline

First version.

• Altars and relays
  • Altar: 6 faces with 9 rune slots each; links reach 16 blocks.
  • Standing Stone: a relay with no runes, 32-block range.
  • Cairn: any distance, across dimensions, no line of sight needed.
  • Dowsing Rod to link and unlink altars and relays.
  • Beams go through blocks; a server setting makes opaque blocks cut them.
• Runes
  • Item, fluid, energy and redstone runes.
  • Modes: insert, extract, stock (with optional regulation) and sensor.
  • Settings: 16 channels, priority, amount and interval raised by up to 4 power stones, round robin (off, on or strict), exact mode, inventory side and redstone condition.
  • Energy: generators can push energy into an altar; inserting and stocking runes have a fill limit.
• Tablets
  • Basic, count, tag, mod and data tablets, for items and fluids.
  • With JEI: drag items or fluids from its list into a tablet (a fluid goes in as its bucket).
  • A tag tablet shows the fluid tags of a fluid container too.
  • Right-click a tablet in a rune to edit it without taking it out.
• Redstone
  • Redstone runes read a signal into a channel (input) or emit a channel's signal (output, weak or strong).
  • Sensors turn a channel on when an inventory matches their tablet.
  • Every rune can wait for a redstone signal.
• Tools
  • Rune Case: 18 slots; while it is in your inventory, its contents show next to the altar and rune screens.
  • Astrolabe: copies a rune's settings onto other runes.
  • Codex: the in-game guide, a page for every item.
  • Raw Crystal and Set Crystal as crafting ingredients.
• Look
  • Ancient style: stone altars with a crystal turning at their heart, standing stones and cairns.
  • Each network picks any RGB color and opacity for its beams (or hides them) and a color for its crystals; a dye used on an altar works too.
  • Screens drawn without textures, with rounded corners, animated switches and matching tooltips.
  • The altar shows its six faces as tiles (the block each one touches, its number of runes), its rack, and the list of what its runes do; a click in the list opens a rune.
  • A rune only shows the settings that apply to its type and mode. Every control explains itself in its tooltip.
• Performance
  • One tick for every network of the server, within a time budget that grows while the server has room.
  • Each item only looks at the destinations whose tablet may take it.
  • A rune change only reads its altar again. A link change, or altars loading or unloading, only rebuilds the networks around them; altars loading together join in one rebuild.
  • Vanilla containers are changed directly, marked changed once instead of twice.
  • Beams are drawn from cached geometry.
• Commands
  • /beamline monitor, /beamline stats, /beamline benchmark (chest pairs, a dense layout with filtered runes, a storage test with chests, barrels or drawers, an export test from AE2 interfaces, a flood test) and /beamline ramp.
• Languages: English and French.