Ex Mekanismed Deorum

Added

• Mekanism: Empowered integration: all machines now accept empowered_speed, empowered_energy, io_capacity, fast_item_insert, fast_item_eject and auto_inserter.
• Mekanism Extras / Evolved Mekanism Extras integration: additional tiers (Absolute–Infinite, Absolute Overclocked–Infinite Multiversal) and their tier installers.
• Tier installers: factories can be upgraded Basic → Advanced → Elite → Ultimate → the add-on tiers. Inventory and progress are preserved across the upgrade.
• Add-on-equivalent recipes: additional-tier factories use the original mekanism:mek_data recipes from each add-on (alloys, circuits, ingots/pellets).
• Compressed sieving: when the input matches a compressed_sieve recipe, the sieve automatically uses compressed recipes with just a mesh.
• Compressed hammer output: results are emitted as compressed_* items (nine items consolidated into one; falls back to normal items when no counterpart exists).
• Texture animation: the front LED breathes while idle and pulses with a moving scan line while active.
• ME pattern automation: all machines are registered with the Mek Energistics SPI (item/fluid I/O, persistent hammer/mesh inputs, factory parallelism).
• JEI: compressed-sieve catalysts and recipe lookup by clicking the progress bar.
• Larger input capacity: input slots hold up to 64 × parallel lanes.
• Larger energy buffer: internal buffer scales as 40,000 FE × parallel lanes.

Changed

• Increased parallelism: Basic 4 / Advanced 8 / Elite 12 / Ultimate 16. Add-on tiers: Evolved 20–36, Extras 20–32, EM Extras 40–64 (sum of the two tiers).
• Top texture rotated 180° to match Mekanism's orientable_with_bottom orientation.
• Base machine and factory recipes unified to ACA / IPI / ACA (crucibles use a bucket as the side ingredient).
• Development runs include all add-on mods on the classpath by default (-PnoAddons opts out).
• Dependencies resolve from CurseForge Maven by default (env vars, -PuseMavenDeps or libs/ can override).

Fixed

• Input items were consumed the moment they were inserted; they are now consumed when an operation completes.
• External energy and cables did not connect because side configs defaulted to NONE (fixed with the SIDE_CONFIG component and an onLoad migration for existing worlds).
• The progress bar appeared diluted by the lane count when processing a single item; it now averages over active lanes only.
• High-speed upgrades could stop machines when the per-tick cost exceeded the buffer; the cost is now clamped to the buffer capacity.
• Combined vanilla and Empowered speed upgrades now compute and register correctly.
• Barrels could not compost while their tank contained fluid.
• Water crucible fluid conversion and tank output.