Forever Production Monitor

Forever Production Monitor 5.0.0

Version 5.0.0 is a major feature and interface update for Forever Production Monitor.

Crafting Diagnostics

- Added a dedicated Crafting Diagnostics workspace.
- View active crafting jobs, encoded patterns and available pattern providers.
- Added direct crafting requests from the diagnostics interface.
- Added additive amount controls for crafting requests.
- Inspect pattern inputs and outputs.
- Detect duplicate patterns and alternative recipes for the same output.
- Added provider details and provider availability information.
- Added direct provider location handoff to the existing 3D Network Map.
- Added reverse dependency inspection for crafting recipes.
- Dependency traversal is bounded and cycle-safe for large or recursive crafting networks.
- Large networks can return explicitly marked partial diagnostic results instead of silently truncating data.

Theme System Overhaul

The interface theme system received a major expansion and polish pass.

- Reworked and expanded:
  - Cats
  - Carbon Industrial
  - Oritech
  - Forever
  - Mekanism
  - AE2
  - Quantum
- Added richer theme-specific animations and decorative elements.
- Added selected interactive theme elements.
- The Cats theme now includes interactive eye tracking and a click reaction.
- Improved animation controls and theme behavior across the Production Monitor interface.
- Removed the old Aurora theme.

Custom Theme Designer

Added a full Custom Theme Designer.

You can now customize:

- Primary and secondary colors
- Saturation and brightness
- Surface colors
- Contrast
- Headers and borders
- Background effects
- Background density, speed and opacity
- Particle effects
- Particle color modes
- Particle amount, size, speed and opacity
- Tab styles
- Button styles
- Hover and accent intensity

The Custom Theme Designer includes a live preview so changes can be inspected directly while editing.

Custom Mini HUD Designer

The Mini HUD now has its own dedicated customization system.

- Independent Mini HUD colors
- Header and row styling
- Border strength
- Accent brightness
- HUD opacity
- Animation intensity
- Multiple decorative frame styles
- Live Mini HUD preview

The Custom Mini HUD can still follow the main interface theme, but its visual configuration is no longer forced to use the exact same palette.

Mini HUD Improvements

The Mini HUD settings screen has been completely reorganized.

Settings are now split into:

- General
- Content
- Layout
- Appearance

The live preview remains permanently visible while editing.

New Mini HUD options include:

- Show/hide Items
- Show/hide Fluids
- Show/hide Energy
- Show/hide Infinite / Creative Storage entries
- Stored amount display mode
- Sort stored resources by:
  - Highest first
  - Lowest first
- Preview zoom:
  - Fit
  - 1x
  - 1.5x
  - 2x
- Improved layout behavior at different GUI scales
- Improved theme-aware frame spacing and clipping

Existing Features Preserved

All existing major monitoring and diagnostics systems remain available, including:

- Production monitoring
- Storage Capacity diagnostics
- NBT item diagnostics
- Channel Devices
- Missing Channel locator
- Dashboard and alarms
- 3D Network Map
- Quantum Bridge dimension navigation
- ExtendedAE Wireless Connector navigation
- Camera bookmarks
- Heatmap
- Network events

Compatibility

- Minecraft: 1.21.1
- NeoForge: 21.1.249+
- Applied Energistics 2: 19.2.17+
- Curios: 9.5.1+1.21.1
- ExtendedAE: Optional

Tested configuration

Forever Production Monitor 5.0.0 Stable has been successfully tested with:

- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge 21.1.252
- Applied Energistics 2 19.2.18
- Curios 9.5.1+1.21.1

Development & AI Disclosure

Forever Production Monitor is designed, directed and tested by Timo.

Implementation and asset development are produced extensively with generative AI (ChatGPT/OpenAI) under human direction, selection, review and in-game testing.

Version 5.0.0 was manually tested in-game before release.