v0.0.6

AE2 Federation 0.0.6 (alpha)

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge 21.1.216+ · AE2 19.2.9+ · LDLib2 2.2.34+. Install on both client and server.

Upgrading from 0.0.5: the Router no longer joins ME networks. A Router that attached an ME network in 0.0.5 now only links Federation ports; put a Federation Switch in its place to keep that network in its domain. The Federation Logic Processor is gone (items of it disappear) and every Federation recipe is new; see the Nexus Core page in the guide. Crafting rules no longer need Storage rules: Storage rules saved in 0.0.5 stay on until you switch them off.

New blocks and items

• Federation Switch: takes over what the Router did, attaching ME networks on any face. The Router keeps only Federation links for now.
• Federation P2P tunnel: carries a Federation link through AE2 P2P, attuned from an ME P2P tunnel like AE2's own types.
• Nexus crafting chain after AE2's processors: Inscriber Nexus Press, Printed Nexus Circuit, Nexus Processor and Nexus Core, which every Federation device now takes. Yields follow AE2 (two cores, eight cables).
• The Federation Pattern Provider has AE2's upgrade slots. With Applied Flux, an Induction Card sends its FE on to the machines at its Endpoints.

Networks and crafting

• A Crafting rule works without the same direction's Storage rule: use another network's pattern providers without seeing its stock.
• A Provider can drive an Endpoint in another dimension; the GUI and return buffers name the dimension.
• Remote crafting results are handed back when two networks link again after a break.
• A copied Federation Pattern Provider gets an identity of its own instead of sharing the original's.

Look and interface

• The Federation Cable is drawn as AE2's dense cable and joins other cables at full width.
• New art for the Switch, Nexus items, the Inscriber Nexus Press and the devices, by the mod's artist.
• The topology screen groups networks by domain on plates, shows AE2 cables and parts in its 3D preview, and keeps Chinese network names readable when zoomed out.

Modpacks and addons

• Tested with Neo ECO Prototype 1.3.3 and Neo ECO AE Extension 21.2.1.
• Data Energistics turns a Federation P2P tunnel back into an ME P2P tunnel, as it does for AE2's tunnels.
• The guide's mod-specific examples no longer show up as resource packs in the Resource Packs screen.

In-game guide

• New pages: Across Domains, the Federation P2P tunnel and the Nexus Core chain.
• New examples: an outpost in the Nether, a factory that takes orders without showing its stock, a chemical tank farm, the Induction Card (Mekanism, Create Crafts & Additions, Ender IO or Industrial Foregoing), UselessMod's Advanced Alloy Furnace and a Local-mode Endpoint under ExtendedAE's provider.

Full Changelog: v0.0.5...v0.0.6