TechPack V1.07

TechPack, a Mining, Crafting, & Farming Modpack for Minetest.

TechPack is a collection of following Mods:

• tubelib, a Mod for item exchange via lumber tubes and wireless message communication between nodes.
• tubelib_addons1, a Tubelib extension with mining, farming, and crafting nodes
• tubelib_addons2, a Tubelib extension with control nodes
• gravelsieve, a Mod to sieve ores from gravel.
• smartline, a Mod with small and smart sensors, actors and controllers.

A TechPack Tutorial is available as

TechPack is a collection of mods for an automated mining, crafting, and farming. It is no replacement for Pipeworks, Mesecons, Technic, and Co., but it is a lightweight and simple to use alternative for servers with the focus on building (not only playing around with technique stuff). If a player uses the full potential of TechPack, he can work on his building projects while TechPack is producing most of the necessary materials in the meantime.

TechPack provides:

• lumber tubes to connect 2 nodes
• a Pusher node to pull/push items through tubes
• a Distributor node with 4 output channels to sort incoming items
• a Blackhole node which lets all items disappear
• Button/switches to send "switch on/off" messages
• Several lamp nodes in different colors (can be switched on/off)
• a Quarry node to dig for stones and other ground nodes
• a Harvester node to chop wood, leaves and crops
• a Grinder node to grind all kinds of cobblestone to gravel, gravel to sand, and sand to clay
• a Gravelsieve node to sieve ores from gravel
• an Autocrafter node for automated crafting of tools and items
• a Fermenter node to produce Bio Gas from leaves
• a Reformer node to produce Bio Fuel from Bio Gas (the Bio Fuel is needed by Harvester and Quarry nodes)
• a Funnel node to collect dropped items
• two Timer nodes for a daytime controlled sending of commands (on/off)
• two Sequencer nodes for a waiting time controlled sending of commands (on/off)
• a Repeater node to distribute received commands to connected nodes
• Gate/Door nodes in different textures to be controlled via on/off commands
• an Access Lock node with number key field
• a Mesecon Converter node to translate tubelib commands in mesecon commands and vice versa
• a Programmer tool to simply collect node numbers
• a Player Detector node
• a Controller node with "IF this then that" rules, which allows:
  • reading node states
  • receiving commands from other nodes
  • sending commands and alarms
  • sending mails or chat messages
  • output on a display
• a Signal Tower node showing machine states
• a Display node for text outputs of the Controller

TechPack supports the following mods:

• Farming Redo (Harvester, Fermenter)
• Ethereal (Harvester, Quarry, Fermenter)
• Pipeworks (Gravel Sieve)
• Hopper (Gravel Sieve)
• Mesecon (Mesecon Converter)

License

Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Joachim Stolberg
Code: Licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. See LICENSE.txt
Textures: CC BY-SA 3.0

Dependencies

default, doors.
Tubelib Color Lamps optional: unifieddyes
SmartLine Display optional: display_lib, font_lib
SmartLine Controller optional: mail
Gravelsieve optional: moreores, hopper, pipeworks

History

• 2018-03-18 V1.00 * Tubelib, tubelib_addons1, tubelib_addons2, smartline, and gravelsieve combined to one modpack.
• 2018-03-24 V1.01 * Support for Ethereal added
• 2018-03-27 V1.02 * Timer improvements for unloaded areas
• 2018-03-29 V1.03 * Area protected chest added to tubelib_addons1
• 2018-03-31 V1.04 * Maintenance, minor issues, Unifieddyes support for Color Lamp, Street Lamp added
• 2018-04-27 V1.05 * Ceiling lamp added, further improvements
• 2018-06-09 V1.06 * Recipes with API to grinder added
• 2018-06-17 V1.07 * Tube placement completely reworked