Logistics: Automation

0.8.8 (2026-09-09)

Changed

• energy: stop idle engines resaving their chunks every tick (888b002)
• fluids: stop tank columns rewriting cells that did not change (888b002)
• routing: make the MkIII Extractor a real upgrade (efe2dfa)
• routing: rank specific Item Sinks above Polymorphic (201b7e1)
• routing: serve pipe shapes from the connection cache (e2501b3)

Removed

• crafting: drop the classic crafting resource pack (55fe8ad), closes #960

Fixed

• automation: let a stalled Fabricator order be cancelled (a81828b)
• automation: stop a new quarry inheriting the old one's arm position (55d3625)
• automation: stop machines jamming on items they cannot use (5923724)
• automation: stop the Alloy Smelter duplicating recipe inputs (ac0f6ba)
• automation: stop the Fabricator eating a failed craft (8781fe4)
• ci: stop the release pipeline publishing broken releases (e1a7efd)
• core: give the Seed Oil Bucket its missing model and texture (#904) (2d044f1)
• core: reject config values that silently brick a machine (76ff2f6)
• core: survive a malformed config file at startup (23381b8)
• crafting: keep the sourceable remainder when a request is replanned (174c1f2)
• crafting: order only what was requested from a crafting batch (174c1f2)
• energy: face a newly placed engine at a full machine on NeoForge (b558d02), closes #977 #989
• energy: give engine and battery models their missing particle texture (#909) (43d1d04)
• energy: hold the battery's per-side push to its own I/O ceiling (76ff2f6), closes #992 #982 #995 #1000
• energy: stop a battery starving its own cable network (b558d02)
• energy: stop a legal steam config making RF free (76ff2f6)
• energy: stop a new engine resuming the old one's piston stroke (55d3625), closes #976 #988
• energy: stop cables exceeding their throughput cap (5da0b16)
• energy: stop cables voiding power into slow machines (3c2472b)
• energy: stop duplicating and voiding energy on Fabric (170ad27)
• energy: stop the Magmatic Engine locking itself out of ignition (76ff2f6)
• fluids: fade fluid out of a pipe instead of popping it (eb8295c)
• fluids: keep the fill animation steady at any frame rate (eb8295c)
• pipes: re-request deliveries that time out in transit (3dff072)
• pump: keep long intake tubes visible off screen (52f153a)
• pump: stop the intake tube descending through waterlogged blocks (a280f8e), closes #968 #969
• quarry: keep marker beams visible off screen (52f153a), closes #940
• quarry: keep the frame and laser visible off screen (52f153a)
• quarry: let players break abandoned frames in survival (d92cde2)
• quarry: mine waterlogged blocks instead of skipping them (a280f8e)
• quarry: remove the unintended duplicate recipe (13758c8)
• quarry: stop a zero arm speed freezing the quarry forever (38f1730)
• quarry: stop frame blocks vanishing without warning (d92cde2)
• quarry: stop vacuuming loose items off the ground (7d3f302), closes #973
• routing: apply one interaction range to every pipe menu (587b984), closes #937 #942
• routing: cancel the order behind a job that has finished (174c1f2), closes #933 #944 #947
• routing: close module menus when the pipe is broken (587b984)
• routing: detach chassis modules shift-clicked out (87c9157)
• routing: fall through to the next provider when one is fully reserved (c0f0662), closes #928 #938 #939
• routing: keep chassis sinks working after a network split (1f16426)
• routing: make tied sink priorities pick a stable destination (201b7e1)
• routing: release only the delivered part of a shipment (c0f0662)
• routing: render the right pipe arm after a neighbour changes (e2501b3)
• routing: stop a bad button id crashing the server (60a6e36)
• routing: stop broadcasting requester contents to every player (37918fe)
• routing: stop failed deliveries shrinking a provider's stock (c0f0662)
• routing: stop Providers destroying items on an unpowered network (2b62986)
• routing: stop Providers draining the slot they reserve (98ed3e7)
• routing: stop Supplier slots editing the wrong entry (512ec68)
• routing: stop Suppliers forgetting their stock target (58840c5)
• routing: stop the MkIII Extractor pulling less than the MkII (efe2dfa)
• routing: stop the Provider MkII shipping the wrong item to the next order (f24f717)
• storage: report a real item capacity to other mods (df332da), closes #985 #986 #990
• transport: apply config reloads to stone and gold pipes (2760dcc)
• transport: apply the configured minimum pipe speed (eb8295c), closes #950
• transport: stop losing items on a partial pipe handoff (43e98c1)
• ui: close machine screens when the machine is gone (62ed84f)
• ui: show byproduct guaranteed count in JEI (2aae0b4)
• ui: stop listing every automation recipe twice in JEI (2a95a4f)