Pocket Factories 0.2.0-rc.1 — NeoForge Update

Minecraft 26.3 | NeoForge 26.3.0.92 | Java 25

This update brings improved factory management, live connection diagnostics, an integrated player guide, and expanded technology-mod compatibility to Pocket Factories for NeoForge.

New Features

Improved Factory Management

• Redesigned factory controls with four organized tabs.

• Clearer configuration of all six exterior faces.

• Improved visibility of factory status, permissions, and connection settings.

• Easier access to factory entry, upgrades, packing, and other management features.

Factory Diagnostics

• Added server-authoritative diagnostics to help identify unavailable or disconnected interfaces.

• Displays connection conditions such as unloaded interiors, missing backing machines, disabled ports, and unsupported resource connections.

• Updates connection information without force-loading factory chunks.

• Makes troubleshooting automation systems easier directly from the factory interface.

Integrated Player Guide

• Added a searchable, 10-topic in-game guide.

• Covers factory creation, tier upgrades, resource connections, redstone, permissions, and relocation.

• Includes troubleshooting information and explanations of loaded-only factory operation.

• Works offline without additional mods or external services.

Expanded Mod Compatibility

• Added verified compatibility with selected Logistics: Automation 0.8.12 components.

• Copper Transport Pipes and Item Extractor Pipes are validated for supported factory upgrades, preserving their contents, configuration, and functionality.

• Confirmed continued compatibility with previously supported Energized Power 3.0.2 machines.

• Performed additional interoperability and persistence testing with selected Applied Energistics 2 alpha components.

Compatibility limitations:

• Applied Energistics 2 machinery is not yet approved for factory tier upgrades.

• A problematic Logistics: Automation energy adapter remains excluded from supported configurations.

• Unsupported machines, attachments, or structural dependencies may cause upgrades to be safely refused rather than risk damaging existing construction.

Stability and Performance

• Preserved all three factory tiers: Basic (7×7×7), Advanced (15×15×15), and Industrial (31×31×31).

• Preserved existing factory identities, interiors, inventories, permissions, and recovery mechanisms.

• Verified representative existing NeoForge saved worlds through the update.

• Revalidated item, fluid, energy, and redstone connections.

• Confirmed loaded-only operation without automatic chunk forcing.

• No significant unexplained performance regressions were observed in the matched validation workload.

Validation

• 44/44 original acceptance gates passed.

• 36/36 PF-007 feature acceptance gates passed.

• 80/80 total acceptance gates passed.

• Validated with independently installed graphical clients and a dedicated server.

• Independent clean rebuild reproduced the exact production JAR.

• No unresolved critical or major defects within the documented tested scope.

Requirements

• Minecraft: 26.3

• NeoForge: 26.3.0.92

• Java: 25

• Additional technology mods: Not required

Important Notes

• NeoForge 26.3.0.92 is required.

• Factory interiors operate only while their required chunks are loaded normally.

• Compatibility with third-party machinery is limited to verified configurations.

• Migration of existing NeoForge worlds to Fabric is not supported.

• Back up your worlds before updating.

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