Logistics: Automation

0.8.8 (2026-09-09)

Changed

• energy: stop idle engines resaving their chunks every tick (3a82071)
• fluids: stop tank columns rewriting cells that did not change (3a82071)
• routing: make the MkIII Extractor a real upgrade (abe0a40)
• routing: rank specific Item Sinks above Polymorphic (925518f)
• routing: serve pipe shapes from the connection cache (de0bd86)

Removed

• crafting: drop the classic crafting resource pack (c24b160), closes #960

Fixed

• automation: let a stalled Fabricator order be cancelled (6933bc0)
• automation: stop a new quarry inheriting the old one's arm position (07da556)
• automation: stop machines jamming on items they cannot use (7853936)
• automation: stop the Alloy Smelter duplicating recipe inputs (d17f48d)
• automation: stop the Fabricator eating a failed craft (5eaed00)
• ci: stop the release pipeline publishing broken releases (3aa7a64)
• core: give the Seed Oil Bucket its missing model and texture (#904) (f30a1d3)
• core: reject config values that silently brick a machine (5e6a698)
• core: survive a malformed config file at startup (0305550)
• crafting: keep the sourceable remainder when a request is replanned (2a98d88)
• crafting: order only what was requested from a crafting batch (2a98d88)
• energy: face a newly placed engine at a full machine on NeoForge (4d4879b), closes #977 #989
• energy: give engine and battery models their missing particle texture (#909) (1bf0684)
• energy: hold the battery's per-side push to its own I/O ceiling (5e6a698), closes #992 #982 #995 #1000
• energy: stop a battery starving its own cable network (4d4879b)
• energy: stop a legal steam config making RF free (5e6a698)
• energy: stop a new engine resuming the old one's piston stroke (07da556), closes #976 #988
• energy: stop cables exceeding their throughput cap (9de83ab)
• energy: stop cables voiding power into slow machines (1a3780e)
• energy: stop duplicating and voiding energy on Fabric (ab6b225)
• energy: stop the Magmatic Engine locking itself out of ignition (5e6a698)
• fluids: fade fluid out of a pipe instead of popping it (efcf709)
• fluids: keep the fill animation steady at any frame rate (efcf709)
• pipes: re-request deliveries that time out in transit (0adbd4a)
• pump: keep long intake tubes visible off screen (73cac73)
• pump: stop the intake tube descending through waterlogged blocks (cfa4ee3), closes #968 #969
• quarry: keep marker beams visible off screen (73cac73), closes #940
• quarry: keep the frame and laser visible off screen (73cac73)
• quarry: let players break abandoned frames in survival (2118f45)
• quarry: mine waterlogged blocks instead of skipping them (cfa4ee3)
• quarry: remove the unintended duplicate recipe (81d6e2b)
• quarry: stop a zero arm speed freezing the quarry forever (a1536c5)
• quarry: stop frame blocks vanishing without warning (2118f45)
• quarry: stop vacuuming loose items off the ground (d8bcf4d), closes #973
• routing: apply one interaction range to every pipe menu (2afb47f), closes #937 #942
• routing: cancel the order behind a job that has finished (2a98d88), closes #933 #944 #947
• routing: close module menus when the pipe is broken (2afb47f)
• routing: detach chassis modules shift-clicked out (490bb20)
• routing: fall through to the next provider when one is fully reserved (9b99466), closes #928 #938 #939
• routing: keep chassis sinks working after a network split (e948744)
• routing: make tied sink priorities pick a stable destination (925518f)
• routing: release only the delivered part of a shipment (9b99466)
• routing: render the right pipe arm after a neighbour changes (de0bd86)
• routing: stop a bad button id crashing the server (b41652d)
• routing: stop broadcasting requester contents to every player (166088a)
• routing: stop failed deliveries shrinking a provider's stock (9b99466)
• routing: stop Providers destroying items on an unpowered network (55583d5)
• routing: stop Providers draining the slot they reserve (77963c1)
• routing: stop Supplier slots editing the wrong entry (a30c07c)
• routing: stop Suppliers forgetting their stock target (af28e7d)
• routing: stop the MkIII Extractor pulling less than the MkII (abe0a40)
• routing: stop the Provider MkII shipping the wrong item to the next order (68f4429)
• storage: report a real item capacity to other mods (82d3490), closes #985 #986 #990
• transport: apply config reloads to stone and gold pipes (3cafb2b)
• transport: apply the configured minimum pipe speed (efcf709), closes #950
• transport: stop losing items on a partial pipe handoff (086f01c)
• ui: close machine screens when the machine is gone (534feef)
• ui: show byproduct guaranteed count in JEI (9dcc8a6)
• ui: stop listing every automation recipe twice in JEI (7796911)