Step Crafter in All the Mods 10

Step Crafter is an add-on for Refined Storage. It gives you a Step Crafter and a Step Requester, which allow recursive crafting and keeping items in stock, so your network tops itself up instead of you queuing crafts by hand.^[1]

This pack includes Step Crafter version 1.21.1-0.1.9 for NeoForge. It was already part of the pack in version 8.1 or earlier.^[2]

Step Crafter

You input a pattern into the Step Crafter, then Shift + Click it to set a minimum and a maximum amount. When the amount of that pattern's output stored in your network drops below the minimum, it automatically crafts items until the maximum is restored.^[1]

Step Requester

With the Step Requester, you select the resource you want to maintain and click to configure its minimum, maximum and batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, the requester asks your autocrafters to produce it in batches until the maximum is reached.^[1]

What is still on the way

The project page lists a Step Crafter Manager and Step Requester Manager, starting Step Crafter autocrafting tasks from the Grid, and a redstone pulse to start crafts as planned features. They are described as upcoming, so don't build your setup around them.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Step Crafter adds a few blocks on top of Refined Storage that keep items in stock for you, so you don't have to queue crafts by hand. The recipes use Refined Storage parts, so get a basic Refined Storage network running first.^[1][3]

First, make a Step Crafter

Start with the Step Crafter. It's the core of the mod, and both the Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor are crafted from it. It accepts patterns for recursive autocrafting and lets you set a minimum and a maximum. When the network's amount of a pattern's output drops below the minimum, it crafts until it reaches the maximum.^[1][3][4]

Step CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Construction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Autocrafter	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter

To set it up, put a pattern in, then Shift + Click it to enter the minimum and maximum amounts.^[1]

Next, make a Step Requester

The Step Requester works from resources instead of patterns. Select the resource you want to maintain and click it to configure the minimum, maximum and batch size. When the amount falls below the minimum, it requests Autocrafters to produce the item in batches until the maximum is reached.^[1][4]

Step RequesterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Detector	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Machine Casing	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester

Add managers once you have several

After you've placed a few of them, the managers save you from walking around to each one. The Step Crafter Manager lets you manage all your Step Crafters from a single interface, and the Step Requester Manager does the same for Step Requesters. Each one is crafted from its matching base block, so make the Step Crafter or Step Requester first.^[3][4]

Step Crafter ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter_manager

Step Requester ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Requester	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Step Requester	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester_manager

Watch and cancel crafts with the monitor

The Step Crafting Monitor displays the status of step crafting tasks and lets you cancel them in your storage network. It is crafted from a Step Crafter too.^[3][4]

Step Crafting MonitorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Pattern	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor

Speed things up with Slot Upgrades

The Slot Upgrade speeds up the Step Crafter. The speed multiplier applies per slot upgrade, using the formula: upgrade amount times speed multiplier, plus 1.^[4]

Slot UpgradeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Chest	Quartz Enriched Iron
Chest	Upgrade	Chest
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade

Optional extras

The managers and the monitor can be recolored. In this pack you combine a dye with any manager or monitor of the matching kind, and the light blue recipe gives you the standard, undyed item. Here's the red Step Crafter Manager as an example.^[3]

Red Step Crafter ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any step crafter manager
• any red dye

Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/red_step_crafter_manager

If you use a Refined Storage Grid, the mod adds a tooltip that says ALT + click to stepcraft.^[4]

Step Crafter is an add-on for Refined Storage. It adds a Step Crafter and a Step Requester, which handle recursive crafting and keep items in stock on your storage network. Everything here works on the network, so you set a target amount and the mod keeps your storage topped up.^[1]

The Step Crafter

The Step Crafter accepts patterns for recursive autocrafting and lets you set a minimum and a maximum for each one. When the amount of that pattern's output on the network falls below the minimum, it crafts automatically until it reaches the maximum.^[1][4]

1. Put a pattern into the Step Crafter.^[1]
2. Shift + Click the pattern slot to configure the amounts. The slot itself tells you to do this.^[1][4]
3. Leave it running. Once the stored amount drops below your minimum, it crafts up to your maximum.^[1]

Each filter slot reports what it is doing: Crafting, Finished, or Not Enough Ingredients. It can also warn you that the network is full and the crafting result can't be inserted. If the Step Crafter is pointed at a container, you get the message that the external container is full or doesn't accept any items.^[4]

There is an option called Insert into pointed container. When it is enabled, the Step Crafter tries to import the crafted components into the container it is pointed at.^[4]

The Grid also has a shortcut. Its tooltip says to ALT + click to stepcraft.^[4]

The Step Requester

The Step Requester works from resources instead of patterns. You select the resource you want to maintain, then click it to configure a minimum, a maximum and a batch size. When the available amount drops below the minimum, the requester asks your autocrafters to produce it in batches until the maximum is reached.^[1][4]

So the Step Crafter follows a pattern recursively, while the Step Requester hands the job to autocrafters you already have.^[4]

Managers and the monitor

The Step Crafter Manager lets you manage all your step crafters from one interface. A Step Crafter only shows up there if its option Visible to the Step Crafter Manager is enabled. You can search the manager by step crafter names.^[4]

The Step Requester Manager does the same job for your step requesters. It has the matching visibility option on each requester and a search by step requester names.^[4]

The Step Crafting Monitor displays the status of step crafting tasks and lets you cancel them. A task can be Ready, Running, Completed, Not Enough Ingredients or Network Full, and the monitor flags any Missing Resource. Its Required and Used figures may not reflect the actual amount.^[4]

Power and upgrades

Every block in the mod has its own energy usage setting: the Step Crafter, Step Requester, both managers and the monitor. The Slot Upgrade has one too. The Step Crafter's speed scales with Slot Upgrades, using the formula: upgrade amount times the speed multiplier, plus 1. The mod also has default minimum, maximum and batch size values for newly configured resources.^[4]

Unverified The exact energy usage, speed multiplier and default amounts this pack uses are set in the mod's config, and the sources here do not show that config, so no values are listed.

Colors and drops

The managers and the monitor come in dye colors. You color one by combining a dye with any block of the same kind in a shapeless crafting recipe. For example, this is the black Step Crafter Manager, such as Black Step Crafter Manager:^[5]

Black Step Crafter ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any step crafter manager
• any black dye

Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/black_step_crafter_manager

The black Step Crafting Monitor and black Step Requester Manager have matching coloring recipes.

If you break a black Black Step Crafter Manager, Black Step Crafting Monitor or Black Step Requester Manager, it drops itself and keeps its custom name.^[6][7][8]

Step Crafter progression in this pack is driven by its crafting recipes. The base blocks are built from Refined Storage parts, including Advanced Processor, so you need Refined Storage up and running before you start.^[5]

The base blocks

Everything starts with the Step Crafter and the Step Requester. Make these first, because the managers and the monitor are built on top of them.^[5]

Step CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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Quartz Enriched Iron	Construction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Autocrafter	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter

Step RequesterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Detector	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Machine Casing	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester

Managers and the monitor

The next step uses your base blocks as ingredients. The Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor both need a Step Crafter, and the Step Requester Manager needs a Step Requester. All of them also use a glass block, and the pack accepts any block in the glass blocks tag. The monitor additionally needs a Refined Storage Pattern.^[5]

Step Crafter ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter_manager

Step Crafting MonitorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Pattern	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor

Step Requester ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Requester	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Step Requester	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester_manager

Slot Upgrade

The Slot Upgrade has its own recipe. It uses a chest, Quartz Enriched Iron and a Refined Storage Upgrade, so it does not depend on any other Step Crafter block.^[5]

Slot UpgradeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Chest	Quartz Enriched Iron
Chest	Upgrade	Chest
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade

Coloring

The managers and the monitor can be recolored. Each color has a shapeless recipe: a dye of that color plus any block of the matching kind (crafter manager, crafting monitor or requester manager). Here is the red Step Crafter Manager as an example.^[5]

Red Step Crafter ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any step crafter manager
• any red dye

Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/red_step_crafter_manager

Step Crafter is built entirely around Refined Storage. The mod adds the Step Crafter and the Step Requester to give a Refined Storage network recursive crafting and the ability to keep items in stock. Every recipe for the mod in this pack is made from Refined Storage parts.^[1][5]

How it plugs into your network

On the Step Crafter side, you put in a pattern and Shift + Click it to set a minimum and a maximum amount. When the network's stored amount of that pattern's output drops below the minimum, it crafts automatically until the maximum is restored.^[1]

The Step Requester works from the resource instead. You select what you want to maintain, then configure its minimum, maximum and batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, it asks autocrafters to produce that resource in batches until the maximum is reached.^[1]

Recipes that use Refined Storage items

Quartz Enriched Iron shows up in every Step Crafter recipe in this pack, so you will need to be set up with Refined Storage materials before you can craft any of them. All of these are shaped crafting recipes.^[5]

The Step Crafter is the base of the crafting side. It is made from Refined Storage components, including an Autocrafter.^[5]

Step CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Construction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Autocrafter	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter

The Step Requester is the base of the stock-keeping side, and it is also built from Refined Storage parts, including a Detector.^[5]

Step RequesterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Detector	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Machine Casing	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester

Managers and the monitor

The Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor both need a Step Crafter first. Keep an eye out for the Machine Casing in both recipes below, and for the Pattern in the monitor's.^[5]

Step Crafter ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter_manager

Step Crafting MonitorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Step Crafter	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Pattern	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor

The Step Requester Manager follows the same idea, but it is built from a Step Requester instead.^[5]

Step Requester ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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Advanced Processor	Step Requester	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	any glass blocks
Advanced Processor	Step Requester	any glass blocks

Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester_manager

The manager and monitor blocks also come in colour variants, such as black and blue. The mod groups them with one item tag for each type: crafter managers, crafting monitors and requester managers.^[9][10][11]

Slot Upgrade

The Slot Upgrade is a Refined Storage flavoured craft. See the recipe below for where the regular Upgrade and a Chest fit in.^[5]

Slot UpgradeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Chest	Quartz Enriched Iron
Chest	Upgrade	Chest
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade

The changes to Step Crafter in the pack so far are small. Here is how it went, release by release.^[12][13]

• All the Mods 10 8.1: Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.8 was added to the pack.^[13]
• That 1.21.1-0.1.8 release made the default resource values for Step Crafter and Step Requester changeable in the client-side configuration screen.^[14]
• All the Mods 10 8.2: Step Crafter was updated from 1.21.1-0.1.8 to 1.21.1-0.1.9.^[12]
• The 1.21.1-0.1.9 release fixed Alt + Click not working inside Grid.^[15]

If you are on All the Mods 10 8.2, you already have the Alt + Click fix and the client-side configuration option, since that release ships Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.9.^[2][14][15]