Forge Pipes

Forge Pipes 0.3.1 — Keep Your Workshop Running While You Browse

You no longer need to close a chest for your pipes to work! This update lets automation continue while you manage a connected chest’s inventory.

What’s new in 0.3.1

• Collect products with the chest open. Finished coal, ingots and other station products can enter a chest while you’re looking inside.
• Keep materials flowing. Connected chests can continue supplying furnace ingredients and fuel while open.
• Chest-to-chest transfers continue. Browse your buffer or storage chest while items move through the network.
• Protected item handling. Pipes skip source stacks you’re dragging or splitting while continuing to move other available items.
• No extra setup. Update the mod and use your existing pipe networks and chest modes.

Allow a few seconds for multiplayer ownership changes. If two different players open both endpoint chests, that connection waits until one closes theirs.

Also included: chest-to-chest storage automation

Send finished products from your workshop into storage using configurable chest modes:

Look at a closed chest and press Shift + E with default controls to cycle modes.

For an automatic smelting-to-storage setup:

Furnace → Buffer chest on Both → Storage chest on Receive only

Two Both chests do not transfer between themselves, preventing unwanted item circulation. Transfers move up to 10 items per source chest per second. There are no item filters, so use separate routes when you want to keep materials separated.