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0.8.0-alpha: Fluids and channels
Pre-release
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Fluids
- Laser Tank: the Laser Port for fluids. Four tanks of 16 buckets, one fluid each; collects, sends or both, and
takes light only by its back. A bucket fills or empties it; pipes drain it on any face and fill it while it sends.
Once a second a sending tank pours up to four buckets to the next collecting tank down the laser. - Insert and Extract move fluids: with no items to move, they fill or drain the fluid handler the laser ends on,
from or to the Laser Tanks up the laser, a bucket at a time (doubled for each Speed Lens). - Extract pumps: with nothing to take from, it takes the first fluid source on its way (the laser runs on through
water) up to the collecting Laser Tanks, a bucket at a time. - The Item Filter Lens is now the Filter Lens and lists fluids: right-click an entry with a bucket to list its fluid
(drawn as that fluid), or drag a fluid in from JEI; a plain click lists the bucket itself. Fluid entries apply only
to fluids, so a list of items lets every fluid through. The Void Lens destroys fluids the same way. - The Laser Tank has a filter and a Sides tab like the Laser Port's (faces push to and pull from what's beside them),
its tanks fill and empty with a bucket clicked on them, and screens draw fluids with their own texture. - Interact pours from Laser Tanks: when nothing a Laser Port sends is used, it uses a bucket of a sending tank's
fluid (filling a cauldron, or pouring it out), draining the tank only if the bucket was emptied. - Fluids on logistics networks: a Logistics Receptacle on any tank puts it on the network as storage, a provider or
a requester, moving fluids as it moves items (2,000 mB a second, quickened by Speed Lenses). Its filter lists
fluids too, and keeping stock counts them in buckets. A collecting Laser Tank is a passive provider. - The terminal lists fluids with their amounts, sorted as a bucket to an item: click one for a bucket of it (the
bucket taken from the network, or made), click it holding a container to fill that, or right-click the grid with a
filled one to pour it into storage. An Extract Lens past the controller pours into the network; Insert and Interact
take its fluids only through a Filter Lens listing a fluid. - Recipes with fluids are read: the fluids a mod's recipe takes and gives are found by their fields' types (or
named in an adapter'sfluid_input_fieldsandfluid_output_fields). - The Quantum Crafter has tanks: three in, beside the catalyst, and two out, shown among its outputs as a terminal
shows fluids. A recipe taking a fluid draws it from them, or from a tank a Tesseract in its grid is bound to; fluids
a recipe makes fill its output tanks, and a bucket clicked on one fills from it. Recipes making only fluids are
offered there too. Pipes fill the inputs and drain the outputs. A recipe taking a fluid is no longer offered as if
it took items alone. - New Crafter catalysts: Energized Power's Fluid Transposer, Fluid Freezer, Stone Solidifier and Stone Liquefier, and
Productive Bees' Bottler. A bucket used on the Crafter fills or empties its tanks. - The Logistics Materializer offers the network's fluids through a fluid handler, so a Crafter's Tesseract bound to
it makes from the network's fluids. Fluids are no longer shown to pipes as items. - The Reactor holds fluids, a bucket weighing as an item: in through an Input port, out through the Materializer
Port (made if need be), and to a logistics network through its Logistics Port, drawing on the network's fluids too.
Its recipes take and make fluids, and buckets fill and empty with no catalyst. - AE2: the ME Superposition Crafter offers recipes with fluids, taking and giving AE2 fluids. The ME Superposition
Port shows the Reactor's fluids as AE2 fluids, takes them in and out, and lets the Reactor make from the network's
fluids; its patterns ask for and give fluids as fluids. - Fluid gauges are marked like a measuring jug.
- The Crafter's faces set fluids apart from items in its Sides tab, with auto input and output. A face gives
what its output tanks hold and what a recipe making only fluids shows, made as a pipe, bus or auto output takes it. - A Crafter's fluids on a logistics network: what its output tanks hold is stock, and what a recipe making only
fluids shows is craftable, made as a terminal or requester takes it. - Make to storage: middle-click something that can be made in a Logistics Terminal, pick how many (up to what can
be made), and it's made and kept in storage, items or fluids, if storage has room. - The terminal counts fluids that can be made, as it counts items.
- The Reactor's fluids it could make are on its network: listed as craftable, and made as a terminal or a requester
that requests what can be made takes them. - A Reactor making something uses a recipe whose ingredients it has on hand first: lava from the cobblestone held, not
from andesite it would first have to make. - The Horizon Core shows fluids with their texture, in mB and buckets, sorted as a bucket to an item.
- A Reactor no longer counts empty buckets as water it could make: filling and emptying buckets made it show far more
of every fluid than it had.
Lasers
- Channels: 0 to 15, and All. Each lens in a Lens Mount has a channel (the number above it): an action works on its
channel, and a modifier changes only the actions on its own (on All, every one). Laser Ports, Tanks, Receptacles and
Logistics Controllers have one too, so several networks share a laser path. An Isolator stops only its channel.
Everything starts on 0, so nothing changes until a channel is set. A Logistics Controller starts on All: a network
for each channel its receptacles are on. A Terminal shows its channel's network; a Materializer offers every channel's. - The Logistics Controller has a screen: its receptacles, its power, and its channel.
- One-way Laser Splitters: sneak with a wrench, or sneak-click the base with an empty hand, to make a splitter a
one-way mirror (its plate's back steel): light on the front only turns, light from behind only goes through, so two
lasers combine without spilling. - The Spectroscope has a screen: the laser split into its spectrum, a line for each action (shaped by its
modifiers) and a band for logistics, a channel picker, and a table of its actions and the ports they use. Aim it at a
laser in the air to read it.
Quantum Crafter
- Pins: middle-click an output, or drag one from JEI onto the grid, to pin it. Pinned outputs come first, outlined
in gold, and stay shown, with a 0, when none can be made. Locked, the Crafter makes only what's pinned (the rest
shown dimmed), and auto output makes each in turn. A Crafter locked to a recipe before keeps it, pinned. - Four output tanks for what recipes make besides items; when they're too full for anything to be made, it says
Output blocked.