Super Factory Manager guide for All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.7 to 2.0.5

Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.12 guide

Super Factory Manager is a mod for moving stuff around in Minecraft, and it does that with a programming language. You write a script that describes what should move and where, and the mod runs it for you. Version 4 of the mod replaced the old flowchart-style GUIs with this scripting language.^[1]

This pack includes Super Factory Manager 4.19.0 for Minecraft 1.21.1. It has been in the pack since version 0.32 or earlier, so it is a long-standing part of the modpack.^[2]

Who it is for

It suits you if you want to automate item movement between inventories and are happy to write or paste a short script instead of wiring up pipes. The project page describes it as a scripting approach, so some trial and error is part of the fun.^[1]

What you need to get started

• A Factory Manager, which is the block that runs your program.^[1]
• A Program Disk, which goes inside the Manager's GUI and holds your script.^[1]
• A Label Gun, which you use to tag the blocks your script refers to.^[1]
• Optionally, Inventory Cables to connect the Manager to your inventories.^[1]

The basic flow is to place the manager, connect your inventories, put the disk in, and paste in your script. Then you load the labels from the script with the label gun, apply them to your blocks, and save them to the disk.^[1]

Where it fits in progression

Unverified The sources I was given do not show any quests, ATM Star path steps or in-jar guidebook entries for this mod, so I can't say where it sits in the pack's progression. Treat it as an optional automation tool that you bring in whenever you want it.

Super Factory Manager is a programming language for moving stuff around in Minecraft. You write a script, store it on a disk, and a manager block runs it. So your first crafts are the manager, the disk that holds your program, and the tool that tells the manager which blocks are which.^[1]

What to craft, in order

Start with Inventory Cable. They connect your manager to your inventories, and one craft makes 16 of them.^[1][3]

16× Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye
Iron Bars	any chest	Iron Bars
any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye

Recipe id: sfm:cable

Next, the Factory Manager. This is the block you place in the world, and it is where your script lives.^[1]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any chest	Inventory Cable	any chest
Inventory Cable	Repeater	Inventory Cable
any chest	Inventory Cable	any chest

Recipe id: sfm:manager

Then the Factory Manager Program Disk. You put it in the manager's GUI to hold your program. This pack changes this recipe from the mod's own, so go by the recipe below.^[1][3]

Factory Manager Program DiskChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Paper	any green dye	Paper
any red dye	any redstone storage block	any blue dye
any redstone dust	Repeater	any redstone dust

Recipe id: sfm:disk

Last of the essentials is the Label Gun. You use it to load the labels from your program and apply them to blocks in the world.^[1]

Label GunMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any blue dye	any sign
Empty slot	any wooden rod	any black dye
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: minecraft:tunnelled_manager_vertical

This is the Label Gun recipe in this pack.

The Network Tool is also craftable, and the pack changes its recipe too. The basic setup below doesn't call for it.^[1][3]

Network ToolChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Redstone Lamp	any sign
Empty slot	any iron ingot	Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate
any iron ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: sfm:network_tool

Your first setup

1. Place the Factory Manager and connect it to your inventories with Inventory Cables.^[1]
2. Put the Program Disk inside the manager's GUI.^[1]
3. Paste your script into the manager GUI with the buttons or with Ctrl+V. The manager tells you when the script has loaded.^[1]
4. Hover over the disk to see any warnings and errors in your program.^[1]
5. Shift-right-click the manager with the Label Gun in your hand to load the labels from your program.^[1]
6. Hold shift and use the scroll wheel to change the active label, then right-click blocks in the world to apply or remove it.^[1]
7. Right-click the manager without holding shift to save the labels to the Program Disk. Your program should then be running.^[1]

Super Factory Manager is a programming language for moving stuff around in Minecraft. You don't build flowcharts: you write a script, load it on a disk, and a manager block runs it against the inventories you connect with cables.^[1]

Getting a program running

You need a Factory Manager, a Factory Manager Program Disk and a Label Gun. Inventory Cable is optional but is how you link the manager to your inventories.^[1]

1. Place the manager in the world and connect it to your inventories with cables.^[1]
2. Put the program disk inside the manager's GUI.^[1]
3. Paste your script into the manager GUI with the buttons or with Ctrl+V. The manager should tell you the script was loaded.^[1]
4. Hover over the disk to see the warnings and errors for your program.^[1]
5. Shift-right-click the manager with the label gun in your hand to load the labels from your program.^[1]
6. Hold shift and use the scroll wheel to change the active label, then right-click blocks in the world to apply or remove it. A right-click menu also lets you enter a custom label that isn't in your program yet.^[1]
7. Right-click the manager while NOT holding shift to save the labels to the disk. Your program should now be running.^[1]

The manager screen

The manager shows its current state: running, invalid program, no program or missing disk. It also shows a hovered tick time and a peak tick time in milliseconds.^[4]

The screen has buttons to copy to and paste from the clipboard, view examples (Ctrl+Shift+E), view logs, view the server config and rebuild the cable network. Reset wipes ALL disk data, meaning the program and its labels, so think twice before confirming it. Pasting over a disk also asks for confirmation.^[4]

If the manager's view of your cables ever looks wrong, the rebuild button rebuilds the cable network at that manager. If the rebuild fails, all cable networks are purged instead.^[4]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any chest	Inventory Cable	any chest
Inventory Cable	Repeater	Inventory Cable
any chest	Inventory Cable	any chest

Recipe id: sfm:manager

The program disk recipe is changed by the pack, so don't rely on the mod's default. The Network Tool recipe is changed too.^[3]

Factory Manager Program DiskChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Paper	any green dye	Paper
any red dye	any redstone storage block	any blue dye
any redstone dust	Repeater	any redstone dust

Recipe id: sfm:disk

Network ToolChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Redstone Lamp	any sign
Empty slot	any iron ingot	Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate
any iron ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: sfm:network_tool

Cables and their variants

One craft of the basic Inventory Cable gives you 16 cables. Fancy Inventory Cable is made from a plain cable, and a shapeless recipe turns it back. All cable types have facade versions, and the game asks you to confirm before it overwrites or clears facades.^[3][4]

16× Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye
Iron Bars	any chest	Iron Bars
any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye

Recipe id: sfm:cable

• Tough Inventory Cable resists explosions and can be facaded as tougher blocks. A Tough Fancy Inventory Cable exists too, and tough cables can be turned back into regular ones.^[3][4]
• Tunnelled Inventory Cable passes capabilities through to the opposite side. A Tunnelled Fancy Inventory Cable version exists as well.^[3][4]
• Tunnelled Factory Manager also passes capabilities through to the opposite side. It is crafted from a regular manager, and a shapeless recipe turns it back.^[3][4]

Tough Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Obsidian	Empty slot	Obsidian
Obsidian	Inventory Cable	Obsidian
Obsidian	Empty slot	Obsidian

Recipe id: sfm:tough_cable

Tunnelled Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any fence	Empty slot	any fence
any fence	Factory Manager	any fence
any fence	Empty slot	any fence

Recipe id: sfm:tunnelled_manager

Labels and the label gun

Labels are how your script refers to specific blocks. The label gun can pull labels from a manager or push them to it, and it tells you in chat which it did. Blocks that aren't touching cables are skipped. Its screen has a search or new-label field, plus Cycle label view, Clear and Prune buttons.^[1][4]

Other blocks

The Printing Press has to be placed with an air gap below a downward facing piston, and you extend the piston to use it. The mod also adds a Falling Anvil recipe category in JEI, which marks whether the anvil is consumed.^[4]

Printing PressMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate
Stone	Anvil	Stone
Iron Bars	Piston	Iron Bars

Recipe id: sfm:printing_press

The Water Tank requires two adjacent water sources, and it is more effective when it is also adjacent to other active water tanks.^[4]

Water TankMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Bars	Water Bucket	Iron Bars
Iron Bars	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	Iron Bars
Iron Bars	Water Bucket	Iron Bars

Recipe id: sfm:water_tank

Checking what you connect to

The mod has a container inspector overlay that shows container slot and inventory slot counts, and a key toggles it. It warns that GUI slots don't always correspond to automation slots. It also warns that Mekanism blocks are read-only from the null direction.^[4]

Unverified The manager screen has a button to view the server config, but the sources here do not show any of the mod's settings or values in this pack. Check that screen in game.

Super Factory Manager progression in this pack is a short ladder of crafting steps: basic cables and the manager first, then programs and tools, then the cable and manager upgrades. Every recipe below is the in-pack version.^[3]

Cables and the manager

Everything starts with Inventory Cable. One craft gives you 16 of them.^[3]

16× Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye
Iron Bars	any chest	Iron Bars
any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye

Recipe id: sfm:cable

One craft makes 16 Inventory Cables.

Next comes the Factory Manager, which is crafted using an Inventory Cable, so make the cables first.^[3]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any chest	Inventory Cable	any chest
Inventory Cable	Repeater	Inventory Cable
any chest	Inventory Cable	any chest

Recipe id: sfm:manager

Programs and tools

The pack changed the recipes for the Factory Manager Program Disk and the Network Tool. Follow the recipes shown here, not what you remember from the mod's defaults.^[3]

Factory Manager Program DiskChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Paper	any green dye	Paper
any red dye	any redstone storage block	any blue dye
any redstone dust	Repeater	any redstone dust

Recipe id: sfm:disk

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Network ToolChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Redstone Lamp	any sign
Empty slot	any iron ingot	Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate
any iron ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: sfm:network_tool

This recipe is changed by the pack.

The Printing Press, the Label Gun and the Water Tank have their own crafting recipes too.^[3]

Printing PressMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Light Weighted Pressure Plate	any black dye	Light Weighted Pressure Plate
Stone	Anvil	Stone
Iron Bars	Piston	Iron Bars

Recipe id: sfm:printing_press

Label GunMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any blue dye	any sign
Empty slot	any wooden rod	any black dye
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: minecraft:tunnelled_manager_vertical

This is the Label Gun recipe.

Water TankMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Bars	Water Bucket	Iron Bars
Iron Bars	Light Weighted Pressure Plate	Iron Bars
Iron Bars	Water Bucket	Iron Bars

Recipe id: sfm:water_tank

Cable upgrades

From basic cables you can craft these variants: Fancy Inventory Cable, Tough Inventory Cable, Tunnelled Inventory Cable, Tough Fancy Inventory Cable and Tunnelled Fancy Inventory Cable.^[3]

Fancy Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Inventory Cable

Recipe id: sfm:fancy_cable

Tough Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Obsidian	Empty slot	Obsidian
Obsidian	Inventory Cable	Obsidian
Obsidian	Empty slot	Obsidian

Recipe id: sfm:tough_cable

Tunnelled Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any fence	any fence	any fence
Empty slot	Inventory Cable	Empty slot
any fence	any fence	any fence

Recipe id: minecraft:tunnelled_cable_horizontal

Tough Fancy Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Obsidian	Obsidian	Obsidian
Empty slot	Fancy Inventory Cable	Empty slot
Obsidian	Obsidian	Obsidian

Recipe id: minecraft:tough_fancy_cable_horizontal

Tunnelled Fancy Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any fence	any fence	any fence
Empty slot	Fancy Inventory Cable	Empty slot
any fence	any fence	any fence

Recipe id: minecraft:tunnelled_fancy_cable_horizontal

Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fancy Inventory Cable

Recipe id: sfm:fancy_to_cable

Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tough Inventory Cable

Recipe id: sfm:tough_to_cable

Fancy Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tough Fancy Inventory Cable

Recipe id: sfm:tough_fancy_to_fancy

The Tunnelled Factory Manager

The Tunnelled Factory Manager is crafted from a Factory Manager. You can turn it back into a plain Factory Manager with a shapeless recipe.^[3]

Tunnelled Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any fence	Empty slot	any fence
any fence	Factory Manager	any fence
any fence	Empty slot	any fence

Recipe id: sfm:tunnelled_manager

Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tunnelled Factory Manager

Recipe id: minecraft:uncraft_tunnelled_manager

Experience items

9 Experience Shard combine into one Experience Goop.^[3]

Experience GoopMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard
• Experience Shard

Recipe id: sfm:xp_goop

All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 ships the Minecraft 1.21.1 build of Super Factory Manager 4.34.0, and the mod has been in the pack since 1.0 or earlier. The pack changelogs have no entries for this mod, so everything below comes from the mod's own changelogs, newest first.^[5]

4.34.0 (the version in this pack)

• Fancy cables can now be waterlogged.^[6]
• There is a configurable keymapping for opening the label gun GUI.^[6]
• Fixed program cache invalidation when using the /sfm config edit server command.^[6]
• Fixed label gun text and the label gun and network tool highlights rendering slightly offset at large world coordinates.^[6]
• Added uk_ua localizations and updated zh_cn.^[6]

4.32.0

• Accepting an intellisense suggestion now has its own keymapping instead of a hardcoded backslash.^[7]
• Fixed the "rebuild cable network" button in the manager erroring, and fixed the intellisense popup being transparent on MC 1.20 and later.^[7]

4.29.0

• Introduced tunnelled cables and tough cables, with tooltips added for both and for the tunnelled manager block.^[8]
• The network tool can now be attuned to a block position.^[8]
• Fixed double-gathering of input slots, which caused lag and correctness issues.^[8]
• Added warnings for slots that don't support extraction.^[8]

4.28.0

• Fixed fancy cables visually connecting to blocks they should not.^[9]
• Fixed LabelNotConnectedProgramLinter not working properly.^[9]

4.26.0

• Added new textures, plus an optional "Classic" resource pack that restores the old ones.^[10]
• The falling anvil handler now supports block tags: sfm:anvil_disenchanting and sfm:anvil_printing_press_forming.^[10]
• Added AE2 energy acceptor compatibility so that fe:: works.^[10]
• Updated to NeoForge 21.1.206 for MC 1.21.1.^[10]

4.25.0

• Added the EMPTY SLOTS IN modifier for OUTPUT, which places items only into empty destination slots.^[11]
• Added a Ctrl+E hotkey for opening the text editor from the title screen and the select world screen.^[11]
• Fixed a crash when re-entering a level.^[11]

4.24.0 and 4.23.0

• 4.24.0 fixed the timer trigger offset in seconds not being multiplied by 20.^[12]
• 4.24.0 added a label gun scroll modifier keymapping, so you can change shift+scroll to something else.^[12]
• 4.23.0 added label gun hotkeys for contiguous (ctrl), clear (shift), pull (shift) and target manager behaviour.^[13]
• 4.23.0 added zh_cn and pt_br localizations and fixed printing press item ghosting.^[13]