Essence & Industry 0.9.7

For Minecraft 26.1.2, NeoForge and Java 25.

Added

• Optional direct ME output for the Essence Converter. Enable it in the UI to send the selected output tier into ME storage while preserving Keep amounts. It uses one powered channel and defaults off.

Changed

• Bulk Cells now store one exact item with a much larger, 4096-bit counter. Existing cells retain their item and quantity when updated.
• Bulk Cell filters can be changed in the Cell Workbench without changing stored contents. A different or cleared filter pauses input; the original item can still be extracted. No automatic compression is included.
• Bulk Cells use a teal native AE2 disk model and show an item preview and stored total in their tooltips. ME listings show up to one trillion per cell; larger quantities remain stored and accessible.

Fixed

• AE2 mixed-resource crafting plans incorrectly reporting some essence-derived materials as uncraftable, even when crafting them individually worked.
• Missing support for Cucumber tag-output essence recipes, including Silicon.
• Converter output handling with partial or refused insertion, full storage, reconnects and legacy over-capacity stacks. Unaccepted items remain stored; uncertain transfer outcomes are retained under a recovery lock.
• Converter upgrade/downgrade mode being lost when the block is picked up.
• Bulk Cell save-notification exceptions causing ambiguous transfer results.

Existing registry IDs, stored items and settings are retained. Update the addon on the server and all clients.