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Flux Foundry 0.5.0-beta.1 — Industrial Logistics

Industrial Logistics is here. Automate your factory with general-purpose Item and Fluid Pipes, directional Extractors, and Wrench-controlled connections.

Added

• Item Pipes
  • Connect inventories and machines into automated item networks
  • Support branching and looping layouts
  • Automatically route around full or rejecting destinations
  • Respect machine-sided input and output rules
  • Store no hidden items inside the pipe network
• Item Extractors
  • Pull items from inventories into Item Pipe networks
  • Transfer up to 8 items per operation
  • Successful extractions are separated by at least 10 ticks
  • Support all six source directions
  • Fair routing helps prevent destinations from being permanently starved
• Fluid Pipes
  • General-purpose fluid transportation
  • Supports standard fluids including Water, Lava, Steam, and Exhaust Steam
  • Preserves fluid identity and components
  • Supports multiple fluid types safely on the same network
  • Stores no hidden fluid inside pipes
• Fluid Extractors
  • Pull fluids from tanks into Fluid Pipe networks
  • Transfer up to 250 mB/t
  • Support all six source directions
  • Support exact partial transfers when a destination has limited capacity
• Wrench Logistics Controls
  • Rotate Extractor source direction
  • Enable or disable individual pipe connections
  • Disabled connections are saved across restarts
  • Pipe models update to show enabled and disabled connections

Factory Automation

Industrial Logistics works directly with existing Flux Foundry equipment.

Item Pipes can automate:

• Crusher inputs and outputs
• Powered Furnace inputs and outputs
• Alloy Smelter inputs and outputs

Fluid Pipes can automate:

• Water Pump → Boiler
• Condenser → Boiler
• Lava → Geothermal Generator
• Steam and Exhaust Steam through standard fluid capabilities

Steam Pipes remain the recommended high-throughput dedicated option for Steam.

Performance

• Item and Fluid networks use cached topology rather than rediscovering the network every tick.
• Stable 10-pipe, 100-pipe, and branching networks completed their observation windows with zero topology rebuilds and zero discovery work.
• Network discovery is bounded to 4,096 visits per level per tick.
• Pipes and Extractors do not force-load neighboring chunks.

Steam Age Compatibility

The original Steam Age plant remains unchanged.

A second Steam plant using the new Fluid Pipes for Water circulation also completed the canonical cycle:

1,000 mB Steam → 4,000 FE gross → 950 mB Water recovered + 50 mB makeup → 25 FE Pump cost → 3,975 FE net

before Boiler fuel cost.

Compatibility

• Existing 0.4.0-beta.1 worlds upgrade directly to 0.5.0-beta.1.
• Existing power, processing, upgrades, Wind and Steam systems remain available and retain their established behavior.
• Standard NeoForge item, fluid and FE capabilities are used for interoperability.
• No additional technology mod is required.
• JEI remains optional.

Validation

• 90/90 tests passed
• All 69 previous tests retained
• All 41 mandatory logistics failure scenarios covered
• Item/fluid conservation passed
• Packaged graphical client passed
• Real dedicated client/server connection passed
• Production-only dedicated server passed
• Fresh-process persistence passed
• Actual chunk unload/reload passed
• 0.4 save migration passed
• No unresolved S1 or S2 issues

Known Beta Limitations

• No item or fluid filters yet
• No user-defined destination priorities
• No stockkeeping
• No request system
• No autocrafting
• No logistics channels
• No network overview
• No traveling-item animation
• Pipes contain no persistent resources
• Complex unfiltered networks may benefit from separate physical routes until Smart Logistics arrives.

Requires Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge, and Java 25.