Logistics: Automation

0.8.8 (2026-09-09)

Changed

• energy: stop idle engines resaving their chunks every tick (c5e4b60)
• fluids: stop tank columns rewriting cells that did not change (c5e4b60)
• routing: make the MkIII Extractor a real upgrade (75be9f9)
• routing: rank specific Item Sinks above Polymorphic (84283a6)
• routing: serve pipe shapes from the connection cache (f5c82e1)

Removed

• crafting: drop the classic crafting resource pack (c562c7c), closes #960

Fixed

• automation: let a stalled Fabricator order be cancelled (1df337d)
• automation: stop a new quarry inheriting the old one's arm position (27f3dd1)
• automation: stop machines jamming on items they cannot use (ec1a98c)
• automation: stop the Alloy Smelter duplicating recipe inputs (01ad7ca)
• automation: stop the Fabricator eating a failed craft (643f4b0)
• ci: stop the release pipeline publishing broken releases (b83830f)
• core: give the Seed Oil Bucket its missing model and texture (#904) (33a0529)
• core: reject config values that silently brick a machine (10df166)
• core: survive a malformed config file at startup (9230b17)
• crafting: keep the sourceable remainder when a request is replanned (147669f)
• crafting: order only what was requested from a crafting batch (147669f)
• energy: face a newly placed engine at a full machine on NeoForge (67027d0), closes #977 #989
• energy: give engine and battery models their missing particle texture (#909) (f124e8e)
• energy: hold the battery's per-side push to its own I/O ceiling (10df166), closes #992 #982 #995 #1000
• energy: stop a battery starving its own cable network (67027d0)
• energy: stop a legal steam config making RF free (10df166)
• energy: stop a new engine resuming the old one's piston stroke (27f3dd1), closes #976 #988
• energy: stop cables exceeding their throughput cap (02af441)
• energy: stop cables voiding power into slow machines (8e89185)
• energy: stop duplicating and voiding energy on Fabric (098f8e9)
• energy: stop the Magmatic Engine locking itself out of ignition (10df166)
• fluids: fade fluid out of a pipe instead of popping it (81a6139)
• fluids: keep the fill animation steady at any frame rate (81a6139)
• pipes: re-request deliveries that time out in transit (71772d5)
• pump: keep long intake tubes visible off screen (5a5765a)
• pump: stop the intake tube descending through waterlogged blocks (b7f980f), closes #968 #969
• quarry: keep marker beams visible off screen (5a5765a), closes #940
• quarry: keep the frame and laser visible off screen (5a5765a)
• quarry: let players break abandoned frames in survival (547a145)
• quarry: mine waterlogged blocks instead of skipping them (b7f980f)
• quarry: remove the unintended duplicate recipe (3a21c65)
• quarry: stop a zero arm speed freezing the quarry forever (641e7f1)
• quarry: stop frame blocks vanishing without warning (547a145)
• quarry: stop vacuuming loose items off the ground (df46db0), closes #973
• routing: apply one interaction range to every pipe menu (fc27fd1), closes #937 #942
• routing: cancel the order behind a job that has finished (147669f), closes #933 #944 #947
• routing: close module menus when the pipe is broken (fc27fd1)
• routing: detach chassis modules shift-clicked out (b915ff9)
• routing: fall through to the next provider when one is fully reserved (63ccaf8), closes #928 #938 #939
• routing: keep chassis sinks working after a network split (57453c8)
• routing: make tied sink priorities pick a stable destination (84283a6)
• routing: release only the delivered part of a shipment (63ccaf8)
• routing: render the right pipe arm after a neighbour changes (f5c82e1)
• routing: stop a bad button id crashing the server (ea3150d)
• routing: stop broadcasting requester contents to every player (6380e33)
• routing: stop failed deliveries shrinking a provider's stock (63ccaf8)
• routing: stop Providers destroying items on an unpowered network (9743e03)
• routing: stop Providers draining the slot they reserve (87476f3)
• routing: stop Supplier slots editing the wrong entry (568069e)
• routing: stop Suppliers forgetting their stock target (1886c4f)
• routing: stop the MkIII Extractor pulling less than the MkII (75be9f9)
• routing: stop the Provider MkII shipping the wrong item to the next order (5dcc07f)
• storage: report a real item capacity to other mods (74bc524), closes #985 #986 #990
• transport: apply config reloads to stone and gold pipes (4b4a1e4)
• transport: apply the configured minimum pipe speed (81a6139), closes #950
• transport: stop losing items on a partial pipe handoff (5c92671)
• ui: close machine screens when the machine is gone (1679aeb)
• ui: show byproduct guaranteed count in JEI (729ae31)
• ui: stop listing every automation recipe twice in JEI (f163a5f)