FarmerFranks_robotics

FarmerFrank's Robotics 0.23.0-beta

New robot: Wool-E

• Wool-E shears the sheep in its area with its shears, and brings the wool to its chest. It leaves lambs and sheep without wool alone, and comes back when the wool has grown.
• A filter with wool picks the colors it shears, and a Capacity Upgrade doubles its basket.
• Build it from a Robot Frame and a Wool-E Neural Chip (Coppersteel, redstone and shears). It can be turned off in the config as shearer.

New: more than one chest

• Fetch from and deliver to several chests. With the Robot Linker, Shift + click the first chests and click the last one without Shift. Up to 16 chests to fetch from and 16 to deliver to.
• Fetching: the robot takes from the first chest that has something for it. Works for the Transporter, Lumberjack, Planter and Breeder, and for the Power Porter and Fluid Porter with batteries and tanks.
• Delivering: two ways to share out, switched with a right-click in the air while setting up the robot. Works for the Transporter, Collector, Harvester, Fisher, Butcher, Miner and Wool-E, and for the Power Porter and Fluid Porter.
  • Fill one at a time: fills one chest, and moves on to the next when it is full.
  • Round robin: one load to each chest in turn.
• Clearer steps: the chests always go to the step shown above the hotbar, first the ones to fetch from and then the ones to deliver to. Once you have Shift + clicked a chest, the text above the hotbar tells you to finish with a right-click without Shift.
• The linker and the Inspector outline all the chests in the world.

New: sides, and the Robot Panel

• Delivering uses the side you click with the linker: the top of a furnace for ore, its side for fuel. This works with machines from other mods too.
• Fetching uses the bottom, as a hopper would, so from a furnace a robot only takes what it has made.
• Ctrl + right-click a robot to open its Robot Panel: see what it is doing, its battery, what it carries, its modules and all its chests, and to change which side of each it uses: bottom, top, front, back, left or right. You can also switch between filling one at a time and round robin there.
• Change a robot's filter from the Robot Panel, without taking the chip out of the robot.
• Butcher and Breeder: set in the Robot Panel how many animals of each kind a Butcher keeps, or a Breeder breeds up to, from 1 to 128. The config numbers are where they start.
• A robot waits three seconds after you put it down or hand it a setup, so you can Ctrl + right-click it before it walks off.
• The panel keeps up while it is open: the battery, what the robot is doing and what it carries change as it works.

New: charging close by

• A robot low on energy uses a Charging Station close by (within 16 blocks) if it is closer than its own, for example a Power Porter at the far end of its trip. It still has its own station, set with the linker, for everything else.
• Config: a new value, nearby_charger_range. Set it to 0 to always use the robot's own station.

New names

• Alloy Furnace is now the Robotics Foundry, since many mods have an Alloy Furnace.
• White and Black Filter Chips are now the Whitelist Filter and Blacklist Filter.
• Only the names have changed: furnaces and filters in your worlds stay, and recipes and modpack scripts that use the ids keep working.

Robot Workshop

• New look, in the same style as the Robot Panel.
• Slots the robot cannot use are crossed out, such as the filter slot for a Power Porter, which has nothing to filter. An upgrade that does nothing for the robot gets a red frame, and the tooltip tells why.
• Empty slots show the shape of what goes in them, and the modules a robot has get a green frame and a tick.
• Give a robot a name of its own, in the field next to the robot slot, to tell your robots apart. It is optional, costs nothing and takes no time.

Charging Station

• Lamps that show how full it is: green, yellow, orange or red along the sides of the pad, and dark when it is empty, so you can see a station that needs power without right-clicking it.

Other changes

• Transporter Neural Chip: the tooltip now says it carries items from one inventory to another, not just between chests.
• Robotics Manual: the Robot Linker chapter tells about more than one chest, sides and charging close by.
• Robotics Manual: clicking a chapter in the contents now opens it.