An addition for Create 6 for Minecraft 1.20.1 and 1.21.1.<\/p>\n
This mod aims to improve or expand several areas related to logistics with the
\nCreate mod.<\/p>\n
## Additions<\/p>\n
### Promise Limits (Factory Gauge Improvement)<\/p>\n
We’ve all been there. You set up a new factory gauge, and request 100 stacks
\nof whatever, only to find out that your production facility can’t keep up and
\nCreate tried sending 1,000 packages worth of ingredients and now everything is
\nawful.<\/p>\n
Promise Limits are here to help. When configuring a factory gauge, you can now
\nset a limit for how many promises it can have open at once. This allows you to,
\nfor example, limit it to only waiting for at most a stack of something at a time.<\/p>\n
Your factory’s logistics grid will thank you.<\/p>\n
### Additional Stock (Restocker Gauge Improvement)<\/p>\n
Restockers are pretty cool, but something I don’t like about them is how they stock
\nto a *specific value* and as soon as so much as a single cobblestone is missing,
\nthey’ll request the exact number needed to reach that value again. This can be a
\nbit silly and wasteful. As such, additional stock! Say, for example, you have a
\nRestocker that’s set to keep one stack of cobblestone on hand. With this, you can
\ntell the Restocker to request 8 additional stacks of items whenever the available
\nquantity falls under the requested level (1 stack). Then, say the number of
\ncobblestone in storage drops to 32. Half of a stack. Instead of requesting 32
\ncobblestone to get back up to one stack, it’ll request 544 cobblestone. That’s
\nthe missing 32, and 8 more stacks. Kind of like a Threshold Switch, but for
\nrestocking. And with a somewhat clunkier UI because of how the Restocker works.<\/p>\n
### Regular Expressions (Package Address Improvement)<\/p>\n
Globs are nice, but sometimes they just lack a little something, right? Well, go
\nahead and use regex if you *dare*. No, really. You can now. Just start your address
\npattern with `regex:` (case-insensitive) and the rest of it will be treated as a
\nregular expression.<\/p>\n
### Cash Register (New Block, Stock Ticker-Like)<\/p>\n
A new block that serves as an alternative to the Stock Ticker. Cash Registers
\nare meant for use in shops specifically. They feature UIs for extracting items
\nrather than right-clicking like the Stock Ticker. Additionally, they track all
\nsales made through them in a Sales Ledger. Plus, they look neat!<\/p>\n
As a little bonus, you can take the Sale Ledger out of a Cash Register and
\nclick a Stock Keeper with it to quickly select all the items you sold. Good
\nfor restocking your shop, if you’re doing that manually. (This works just like
\na clipboard list of items for a Schematicannon.)<\/p>\n
### Package Accelerator (New Block, Packagers Go Zoom)<\/p>\n
An auxiliary block to accompany Packagers, this block uses stress units to
\nspeed up the Packager in front of it. I use Sophisticated Storage for bulk
\nstorage of items, and as the system has grown, having a single packager has
\npresented a bottleneck for sending items out. This is my solution, allowing
\npackages to be sent out much quicker but at a cost.<\/p>\n
Package Accelerators require at least 30 RPM to function.<\/p>\n
### Package Editor (New Block, Rename Packages)<\/p>\n
A new package handling block. The Package Editor is similar to a Re-Packager,
\nbut rather than combining packages from the same order, it allows you to edit
\nthe addresses of packages using rules. Rules are input by either placing a
\nsign next to the Package Editor, or by attaching a clipboard to the side of
\nthe Package Editor. Clipboards are recommended.<\/p>\n
When writing rules for a Package Editor, the first line is the pattern to
\nmatch and the second line is the text to replace the match with. For example,
\nsay you have packages being routed into a warehouse with the prefix `Ware1-`
\nand a full package name might be `Ware1-Floor2-Storage`. What if you want to
\nchop off the `Ware1-` once the package gets to your warehouse? That’s easy,
\njust send the packages through a Package Editor with this pattern and a
\nblank replacement line:<\/p>\n
“`
\nWare1-<\/p>\n
“`<\/p>\n
The Package Editor will search each package name for `Ware1-` at the start,
\nand if it finds it, replace it with nothing. You could also write that like this:<\/p>\n
“`
\nWare1-{*}
\n$1
\n“`<\/p>\n
So what’s going on there? The Package Editor treats anything inside `{` and `}` as
\na capture group. In other words, that text is saved and can be referenced in your
\nreplacement text by adding a `$` followed one you want. You can also use regular
\nexpressions, of course, if you want to do something more advanced than globs
\nallow for.<\/p>\n
Finally, there are two special behaviors you can manage if you’re using a clipboard:<\/p>\n
1. If you check the box next to the pattern line, the pattern will be interpreted
\n as case-insensitive.
\n2. If you check the box next to the replacement line, then the Package Editor will
\n stop after this rule (assuming this rule matched). You could use this, for
\n example, to make a catch-all rule that sends packages to some Lost & Found if it
\n doesn’t match any other rules.<\/p>\n
### Train Network Monitor Peripheral (New Block, CC: Tweaked Only)<\/p>\n
You know what’s cool? Trains. You know what’s cooler? Having some big cool wall of
\ndata about your trains. Arrivals, departures, the status of trains. And trains are
\npretty important for logistics, too. The Train Network Monitor is a single block
\nthat allows you to look up live data for any station and any train on a given
\ntrain network. This includes everything the normal Train Station peripheral gives
\nyou, and additional events for train arrivals and departures. You can also see
\nhow many packages are in the system, and the status of every postbox attached to
\nthe various train stations.<\/p>\n
If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, you can enable optional features for
\nviewing more details about train inventories and for read-write access to remote
\ntrains and stations. Want to update schedules on the fly using a computer?
\nBe my guest. However, this is disabled by default because it seems a bit too
\nunbalanced to me.<\/p>\n
### Short and Tall Seats (New Block, Basically… Seats?)<\/p>\n
Err, seats aren’t logistics? Whatever do you mean? You can, erm… sit on them,
\nand\u2014okay, fine. These are a bit out of scope for ‘Additional Logistics’, but
\nthere’s a good reason we’ve added seats! Aesthetics, of course.<\/p>\n
Depending on what kind of mob you choose for your Stock Keeper, the default seat isn’t
\nalways at a good height for whatever build you’re doing. As such, we’ve added
\nShort Seats and Tall Seats. Short Seats are 2\/16ths of a block tall, while Tall Seats
\nare 14\/16ths of a block tall. (Normal Seats are, of course, 8\/16ths or 1\/2 of a
\nblock tall.)<\/p>\n
### Lazy Shafts (New Block, Basically Shafts)<\/p>\n
I know what you’re thinking. This isn’t logistics either. And Create has had shafts
\nfor years. Get it together, Khloe. But this is important, I promise. Lazy Shafts
\nare my attempt at creating lag friendly shafts. Basically, normal shafts have a
\nblock entity for each individual block, right? These try to avoid that when possible.
\nAs long as you have more than two Lazy Shafts in a row, you’re going to be coming
\nout ahead on block entities. If you use a lot of shafts, and I mean a lot, then
\nreplacing them with these might help your server performance.<\/p>\n
### Flexible Lazy Shafts (New Block, Basically Gearboxes + Lazy Shafts + ???)<\/p>\n
There are Flexible Lazy Shafts too. These are like Lazy Shafts, but they can connect
\nin any direction. Not just that, but they have configurable sides. Just use your
\nwrench on a side to expose a shaft. Use your wrench again to reverse the direction.<\/p>\n
Just be careful when connecting things. Due to how they’re connected in code, sometimes
\nCreate ends up breaking an inconvenient Flexible Lazy Shaft if there’s a problem
\nwith incompatible rotations.<\/p>\n
Did I mention Lazy Shafts, Flexible Lazy Shafts, and Lazy Cogs can be encased? They
\nsupport Andesite Casing, Brass Casing, Copper Casing, Industrial Iron Block, and
\nWeathered Iron Block. (Yes, I want to implement Train Casing, but it’s actually a
\nbit weird to do for some weird technical reasons, at least if I want the connected
\ntextures to work properly. It’s coming Eventually\u2122.)<\/p>\n
## Improvements<\/p>\n
### Address Matcher Optimization<\/p>\n
Create’s package address matching is just a little slow and unoptimized. This can be
\nfine, but it can also cause issues when using Create with other mods. We’re
\nhere to address the problem with a couple easy changes:<\/p>\n
1. Cache the compiled matchers. Every package address is compiled into a regular
\n expression when performing package matching. This involves first parsing the
\n glob into regex, and then compiling the regex into a Java Pattern. All we have
\n to do is cache that.<\/p>\n
2. There are technically two caches because of how the internals of the package
\n address system works, so I’m counting it as two things. But really, just caching
\n was enough to make things work better in a doomsday scenario my SMP server saw
\n recently thanks to Sophisticated Storage handling packages with package filters.<\/p>\n
### Regular Expressions (Safety)<\/p>\n
I’m actually aware there was already another mod that let you do regex with
\npackage addresses, but when we tried that in our SMP the server was crashed by a
\nplayer almost immediately. Regular expressions can actually be fairly dangerous, so
\nI’ve included a few basic things that should hopefully stop someone from at least
\n*accidentally* killing a server with them. Namely:<\/p>\n
1. **Star Height Limit.** Did you know the regular expression `(a+)+` is dangerous?
\n It’s because of something called catastrophic backtracking, and the Java regular
\n expression library is vulnerable to it. They’re not impossible to write by accident
\n for that matter. We check the star height of all regular expressions and prevent
\n them from running if they’re problematic.
\n2. **Repetition Limit.** It’s not quite as bad, but if you try to match, say, 1000 of
\n something in a row, the performance can start to drag. That should never come up
\n for package addresses in the first place, so we put a protection on.
\n3. **No Backreferences.** A backreference in regular expressions allows you to say
\n “match this thing that was already matched”, which can be useful, but it’s also
\n likely irrelevant for package addresses and it can be slow. They’re disallowed
\n by default.<\/p>\n
We also make sure to test every regular expression at the moment it’s parsed through
\nCreate’s `Glob.toRegexPattern` method, even though this doesn’t normally compile the
\nexpression, just convert it from a glob to regex. This is important because it’s
\nimplied that all regular expressions returned from this method should compile without
\nany errors.<\/p>\n
### Longer Frogport Names<\/p>\n
Regular expressions tend to be a bit… bigger than globs, which could be a problem
\nfor frogs. As such, we’ve increased the maximum name length of frogports and
\npostboxes to 100. … it’s a good thing you can copy and paste.<\/p>\n
### Let Your Stock Keepers Remain Seated<\/p>\n
Let me set a scene for you. You’re at a honey shop. The stock keeper is a bee. You
\nget a shopping list and you’re ready to check out, so you click on the stock keeper
\nand– oh no! You clicked the seat instead! You just sat down, and the bee took to
\nthe skies with newfound freedom. You don’t have a lead. How are you supposed to get
\na bee back on a seat? Flying mobs are the worst.<\/p>\n
This is a simple change. If you click on a seat occupied by a stock keeper, nothing
\nwill happen. If you need to dislodge the stock keeper, you can break the seat or
\nthe stock ticker. But at least you won’t do it by accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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