Sophisticated Core guide for All the Mods 10 0.52 to 2.11

Sophisticated Core is a library mod, and this pack ships version 1.0.5 of it (file sophisticatedcore-1.21.1-1.0.5.813.jar). It has been in the pack since 0.32 or earlier, so it is a long-standing part of the mod list.^[1]

Unverified The sources I was given don't describe what Sophisticated Core does in this pack, who it is aimed at, or where it fits in progression. I have no guidebook, platform description or quest data for it, so I'm not guessing. The sources also don't show it on the ATM Star path, and no quests in this pack are known to involve it.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Sophisticated Core is the shared base behind the storage screens of backpack and storage mods. The sources here show no items to craft from it directly, so your first steps are about learning the screen and settings you get once you hold a backpack or storage block from a mod that uses it.^[2]

Unverified The sources here show no recipes or quests in this pack for Sophisticated Core, so there is no confirmed crafting order to give you. For what to craft first, look at the quest book and recipes of the storage mods that build on it.

What to do first

1. Hover over a backpack or storage item. An empty one reads "No Upgrades or Inventory Contents". Once it holds something, the tooltip tells you which key to press to view the contents and shows its Stack Size Multiplier.^[2]
2. Open the settings and look at the player level settings. They apply to all your backpacks and storages unless a specific one overrides them, so set your habits here once.^[2]
3. Decide whether the screen should keep your search phrase. When it is on, the search is prefilled and filtered when you reopen the screen. When it is off, the phrase clears on close and everything is shown again.^[2]
4. Decide whether to keep the upgrade tab open. When it is on, the screen remembers the last open upgrade tab and reopens it next time. When it is off, all tabs start closed.^[2]
5. Choose how shift click behaves. When the option is on, shift click tries an open upgrade tab first and then the inventory or storage. When it is off, it tries the inventory or storage first and only then an open tab.^[2]

Slot settings worth knowing

• Slot Memory Settings let you pick slots that remember their contents and only accept matching stacks. Left click or drag selects a slot, right click or drag unselects it.^[2]
• No Sort Slot Settings let you pick slots that sorting ignores, using the same click and drag controls plus select all and unselect all buttons.^[2]
• Item Display Settings let you pick a slot whose item is shown on top of the storage.^[2]

The mod also has an enabled items option that comes prefilled with all supported items. Its tooltip says you change true to false to disable one, in the format item_id|true_or_false.^[2]

Here's the honest scope of this section: the only material available for Sophisticated Core in this pack is its in-game tooltip text. That covers the settings and interface behavior of the backpack and storage screens. It says nothing about machines, multiblocks, power or fluid piping, so I'm only covering what the tooltips actually explain.^[3]

Player-level settings

The settings screen has a player-level context. Settings made there apply to all of your backpacks and storages unless an individual one overrides them. Set your preferences once and everything follows, then tweak single containers when you need to.^[3]

There is also an export template button. Its tooltip says it creates a data pack with an snbt file. The sources don't explain what the template contains or how to use it afterwards.^[3]

Interface toggles

• Keep search phrase: when off, the backpack/storage screen clears your search phrase on close and shows every item unfiltered when you reopen it. When on, it keeps the phrase and prefills and filters by it next time.^[3]
• Keep tab open: when off, any open upgrade tab closes with the screen, and all tabs start closed next time. When on, the container records which upgrade tab was last open and reopens it.^[3]
• Shift-click into open tab: when off, shift-clicking a stack moves it between your inventory and the storage first, and only then into an open tab. When on, an open tab gets the stack first.^[3]

Slot settings

• Item display: lets you pick a slot whose item is shown on top of the storage. Left click or drag selects a slot, and right click or drag unselects it.^[3]
• Slot memory: lets you select slots that remember their contents and only accept matching stacks. Open the tab to change slot settings. It has select all and unselect all buttons, plus the same left-click and right-click selecting as above.^[3]
• No sort: lets you select slots that sorting ignores. It uses the same tab, buttons and click controls as slot memory.^[3]

Upgrade settings tabs

The tooltips show that upgrades get their own settings tabs. Named ones are Advanced Compacting, Advanced Feeding, Advanced Filter, Advanced Magnet, Advanced Pickup, Advanced Void and a Botanist's Workbench tab. The tooltips don't describe what these upgrades do beyond their names.^[3]

There are also tank-related texts about experience. A tank shows its contents as a number of xp levels out of a maximum, and a control sets the level at which the pump stops.^[3]

Reading a storage item's tooltip

A storage item's tooltip says it has no upgrades or inventory contents when it's empty. Otherwise it prompts you to press a key to view its contents. It also shows a stack size multiplier value for that storage.^[3]

Unverified Machines, multiblocks, power and fluid handling, and automation (hoppers, pipes and similar) for Sophisticated Core are not covered by the available sources, so they are left out. The same goes for config options, recipes and the actual stack size multiplier values in this pack.