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Factory Gauge

Alex Huang edited this page Jul 4, 2026 · 23 revisions

Factory gauges are used for automating logistic requests and production, for their conventional usage and foundational concepts of higher logistics, see the in-game ponder. When placed in a factory controller, they operate in recipe mode.

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Figure 1. A new factory gauge placed in a factory controller

Place and Set Item

Factory gauges need to be tuned to a logistics network before being placed in a factory controller. To do so, either interact with a stock link in the game world with the gauge in hand, or use the network selector in dashboard UI to tune to a network that is already tuned to by another gauge in the factory controller.

Once placed, the new factory gauge need to be configured with an item to monitor. You may do so by clicking on the unconfigured gauge with the item in cursor, or use the "set item" screen. Either way, you may also drag a ghost item from JEI or EMI to the filter slot.

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Figure 2. "Set item" screen

If you use the "set item" screen, the item’s NBT data can be chosen to be ignored. NBT is respected by default.

Once an item is set, the gauge starts monitoring the number of this item in the tuned logistic network, and displays the count on its label.

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Figure 3. A factory gauge monitoring oak logs, for which there are 64

Recipe Settings

Clicking on a factory gauge with an item set opens its recipe settings screen.

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Figure 4. Recipe settings screen for a gauge monitoring oak logs

Crafting Mode

Fluid Transport

Promise Limits

Redstone

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