Core Utilities

2.0.0

The technology update: power, machines, logistics and automation on every version and loader.

Added

• Generators:
  • Combustion Generator (any furnace fuel, 40 FE/t, never wastes fuel).
  • Geothermal Generator (15 FE/t per adjacent lava source).
• Energy storage:
  • Basic, Advanced, Elite and Creative Energy Cells.
  • Configurable input and output faces.
  • Cells keep their charge when broken.
• Energy transport:
  • Advanced and Elite Energy Cables (4,096 and 32,768 FE/t per network).
  • The existing cable becomes the Basic tier (512 FE/t).
• Machines:
  • Processing: Electric Furnace, Crusher, Alloy Smelter, Compressor.
  • Automation: Quarry, Crop Harvester, Mob Grinder, Block Breaker, Block Placer.
• Machine features:
  • Shared GUI with an energy bar.
  • Per-face side configuration, redstone modes and auto-eject.
  • Comparator output.
  • Speed, Energy and Range upgrades.
• Item logistics: Item Pipe and Rapid Item Pipe. Extraction is set per face with the wrench, and items are delivered round robin.
• Materials and progression:
  • Iron, gold, copper and coal dusts.
  • Steel, Energized and Ender Alloy ingots.
  • Iron, copper, gold and steel plates.
  • Basic, Advanced and Elite circuits.
  • Advanced Machine Frame and Block of Steel.
  • Convention tags (c:, plus forge: on 1.20.1).
• Tools:
  • Multimeter.
  • Core Utilities Manual (in-game guide).
  • Configuration Wrench rework: rotate, configure conduit faces, sneak to dismantle.
• Compatibility:
  • Forge Energy capabilities (Forge, NeoForge).
  • Team Reborn Energy (Fabric, bundled).
  • Item handler and Transfer API support.
  • JEI categories and catalysts (1.20.1, 1.21.1).
  • Jade shows stored energy through the FE capability.
• Configuration: config/core_utilities.properties covers every rate and cost.
• Developer tooling:
  • Resource generator (scripts/assetgen).
  • In-game server test (scripts/servertest).
  • JUnit tests.
  • docs/feature-matrix.md.

Changed

• Energy system rewritten:
  • Cables form cached networks.
  • Cables hold no energy and do no per-block work.
  • Power is split fairly between receivers.
• Solar panels:
  • They now need sky access and generate into an internal buffer.
  • They push energy to any neighbour below or beside them, not only to a cable directly underneath.
  • Rebalanced to 20 / 80 / 320 / 1280 FE/t; tier 1 was 64 FE/t.
• Old per-shape cable blocks and per-weather solar panel blocks convert to the new blocks in existing worlds.
• All machine, cell and conduit textures are new. Item icons are hand-drawn pixel art.
• Version 2.0.0 on every version root.

Fixed

• Crashes:
  • 1.20.1 Fabric dedicated server crashed on start (client-only networking class loaded on the server).
  • 1.21.1 Fabric server crashed when a cable or solar panel was placed (block entity types never assigned).
  • 26.2 NeoForge crashed on start (stale example service file).
  • 26.2 Fabric crashed on start (Block id not set).
• Data and assets:
  • 1.21.1 and 26.2 loaded no recipes and no loot tables: wrong folder names and the pre-1.21 recipe format.
  • 26.2 rendered every item as a missing texture (no item model definitions).
  • Pushing and effect plates rendered as missing models (invalid vector parent model).
  • Non power-of-two filter textures disabled mipmapping for the whole block atlas.
• Energy and performance:
  • Cables duplicated energy, could not power blocks from other mods, and the mod had no consumers at all.
  • Every cable and solar panel swapped its block every tick, and a global timer sent a packet to every player every tick. Both caused lag and network spam.
• Other:
  • Missing mod icon (Fabric) and logo (NeoForge).
  • Duplicate legacy lang keys; "Resistence" typo.
  • Gradle wrappers were not executable.
  • The 26.2 tree contained decompiled Minecraft source code; it has been removed.