Modular Routers in All the Mods 11

Modular Routers is a flexible item-moving mod. It gives you one block, the Modular Router, and a set of plug-in modules that decide what that block does. Think of it as a super-configurable hopper. This pack includes version 26.1.2.2.^[1][2][3]

With the right modules you can pull items from an inventory, send them to other inventories near and far, place and break blocks, drop or fling items into the world, absorb dropped items, sort items, void unwanted ones, and even extend and retract lines of blocks like a drawbridge.^[1][3]

How a router works

On its own, a router is just a one-slot inventory that hoppers and other piping systems can feed. It only becomes useful once you install modules, up to nine at a time. Every router tick, which is once per second by default, it runs each installed module in order.^[4]

• Modules: there are 20 module types. Each has 9 filter slots, and most have a direction relative to the router's facing.^[5]
• Upgrades: a router has 5 upgrade slots and there are 8 upgrade types. They speed the router up, let it handle more items per tick, or extend the range of certain modules.^[4][6]
• Augments: each module has 4 augment slots. Augments are module-specific upgrades, and not every module accepts every augment.^[5][7]
• Smart Filters: these go in a module's filter slots in place of regular items and give you more advanced matching. The Bulk Item Filter, for example, matches up to 54 items.^[8][9]

FTB Filter System is installed in this pack, so its Smart Filter items also work in a module's filter slots. You can't reconfigure those while they sit in a module, though. The filter item has to be in your inventory.^[10]

Who it's for

It suits you if you want one compact, configurable block for sorting, moving, and world-interaction setups instead of a separate machine for each job. You can configure each module in its GUI by right-clicking it in hand.^[1][5]

Unverified The sources I have don't say where Modular Routers fits in this pack's progression, and they don't show any quests for it. I also can't confirm whether the pack changes the router's default tick rate, so check the config in game before building around it.

Modular Routers is basically a super-configurable Hopper: one block, plus plug-in modules that decide what it does. Pulling items, sending them to other inventories, placing and breaking blocks, sorting and more all come from the modules. Here's the order I'd build things in.^[1][3]

First, craft the Modular Router

The Modular Router is the only block in the mod, so it's your first craft. On its own it only acts as a one-slot inventory that hoppers and other piping systems can feed into and pull from. It needs modules before it does anything useful.^[4][11]

4× Modular RouterMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Iron Bars	any iron ingot
Iron Bars	Blank Module	Iron Bars
any iron ingot	Iron Bars	any iron ingot

Recipe id: modularrouters:modular_router

Next, make a Puller and a Sender

A simple first setup is moving items from one inventory to another. The Puller Module Mk1 pulls items from an inventory into the router, and the Sender Module Mk1 sends them on to another inventory. A router can hold up to nine modules and runs each one in order every time it ticks.^[4][12][13]

Puller Module Mk1Mod recipe

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• Blank Module
• Sticky Piston

Recipe id: modularrouters:puller_module_1

Sender Module Mk1Mod recipe

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• Blank Module
• Bow
• any arrow

Recipe id: modularrouters:sender_module_1

To point a module at a chest, hold it and Sneak + Right-Click the inventory. The module tooltip also says that Sneak + Right-Clicking any non-inventory block clears the target.^[14]

Then, learn the module GUI

Right-click a module in your hand to open its GUI. Every module has 9 filter slots and four augment slots, plus buttons for whitelisting or blacklisting. You can also configure a module while it's still inside a router by hovering over it and pressing the configure key, or by middle-clicking it.^[5]

Add upgrades to the router

Upgrades go into the router itself, which has 5 upgrade slots. They can speed the router up, let it handle more items per tick, or increase the range of certain modules. The first two to look at are the Speed Upgrade and the Stack Upgrade.^{[4][6][15][16]}

3× Speed UpgradeMod recipe

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any redstone dust	any gold ingot	any redstone dust
any gold nugget	Blank Upgrade	any gold nugget
any gunpowder	any blaze rod	any gunpowder

Recipe id: modularrouters:speed_upgrade

Stack UpgradeMod recipe

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• Blank Upgrade
• any stone brick
• any brick

Recipe id: modularrouters:stack_upgrade

Filter smarter

Once plain item filters get tedious, craft a Bulk Item Filter. It matches up to 54 different items, and you can Sneak + Right-Click it on an inventory to copy that inventory's contents into the filter. Paired with a Sender Module, it works well for a sorting system, because the filter remembers what belongs in an inventory even after the inventory is emptied.^[8][9]

Bulk Item FilterMod recipe

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any iron ingot	any glass blocks	any iron ingot
Blank Module	any diamond gem	Blank Module
any iron ingot	any glass blocks	any iron ingot

Recipe id: modularrouters:bulk_item_filter

Augments come later

Augments are like upgrades, but they go into a module instead of the router. The Range Up Augment adds one block of range per augment to modules that have a range, such as the Puller and Sender. The Stack Augment doubles the items a module handles per tick, up to the item's normal stack size.^[7][15][17]

4× Range Up AugmentMod recipe

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Empty slot	any quartz gem	Empty slot
any quartz gem	Augment Core	any quartz gem
Empty slot	any wooden rod	Empty slot

Recipe id: modularrouters:range_up_augment

Stack AugmentMod recipe

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• Augment Core
• Stack Upgrade

Recipe id: modularrouters:stack_augment

Modular Routers is built around a single block, the Modular Router. On its own it does nothing. Everything useful comes from the modules, upgrades and augments you plug into it. This section covers how those systems work together.^[3][4][11]

4× Modular RouterMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Iron Bars	any iron ingot
Iron Bars	Blank Module	Iron Bars
any iron ingot	Iron Bars	any iron ingot

Recipe id: modularrouters:modular_router

The router is the only block in the mod.

The router, its buffer and its slots

The router has a one-slot buffer that holds up to one stack of items. The buffer works like a normal inventory, so hoppers and other mods' pipes can feed items in and out. A comparator placed against the router reads how full the slot is.^[4][18]

It also has nine module slots and five upgrade slots. You can put several upgrades into one upgrade slot, but each upgrade type has its own limit on how many fit. There are 8 upgrade types in total.^[6][18]

Each time the router ticks, it runs every installed module in turn, from left to right. Each module then works on the item in the buffer or on the world around the router. You can configure an installed module without removing it. Hover over it and press the configure key, or middle-click it.^[4][18]

Router speed and redstone

By default a router ticks every 20 server ticks, which is once per second. Each Speed Upgrade cuts the interval by 2 server ticks, down to a minimum of every 2 server ticks (10 times per second). The guide says Stack Upgrades are better for performance than Speed Upgrades, so use Speed Upgrades only where you really need the throughput.^[4][18][19]

The button at the top right of the router GUI sets its redstone behaviour. The options are:^[18]

• Always run (the default).^[18]
• Run only with no redstone signal.^[18]
• Run only with a redstone signal.^[18]
• Do not run at all.^[18]
• Run once when a redstone pulse arrives.^[18]

Eco Mode is an optional setting that slows an idle router down. The guide gives 5 seconds of no work before the router slows to one tick every 5 seconds, whatever its Speed Upgrades. As soon as it does any work, it returns to normal speed. It suits busy servers and routers that run rarely, such as one that occasionally vacuums up sheared wool.^[14][18]

Modules and filters

There are 20 module types. Every module has 9 filter slots, and many have a direction relative to the router's facing. Some also have extra settings, such as the Detector Module's redstone output level and its weak or strong signal option. Distant-target modules, like the Sender Mk2, have no direction selector. Open a module's GUI by right-clicking it in hand.^[5]

A module only operates if the item in the buffer matches its filter. In whitelist mode the module runs only on a match, and an empty whitelist never lets it run. In blacklist mode it does not run on a match, and an empty blacklist always lets it run. The filter buttons also control matching of item damage, item components such as enchantments, and item tags.^[5][14]

Smart filters can go in filter slots in place of regular items. The ones in the sources are:^[8][20]

• Bulk Item Filter: matches up to 54 items. Sneak-right-click it on an inventory to merge that inventory's contents into the filter. It works well with a Sender module for sorting systems.^[9]
• Mod Filter: matches by mod, with up to 6 mods per filter.^[21]
• Regex Filter: matches a regular expression against the part of the registry name after the colon, case-insensitively, with up to 6 entries.^[22]
• Inspection Filter: matches numeric properties such as durability percentage, energy level, fluid level, food value and enchantment level. An item without the property returns -1.^[23]

Termination: controlling the module chain

Each module has a Termination button under its filter slots. When it is on and the module does any work on that router tick, the router stops there and no modules to its right run this tick. The guide's example is a router fed by a quarry. A Void Module whitelisting Cobblestone, with Termination on, comes before a Sender module for everything else. That way the Sender module does not run until the Void Module has nothing else to do, so it does not ship off the leftover Cobblestone.^[24]

Moving items

Puller Module Mk1 pulls the first eligible item from the adjacent inventory in its direction into the buffer. Puller Module Mk2 does the same from non-adjacent inventories up to 12 blocks away, or 24 with Range augments. It needs no line of sight. You pick the target by sneak-right-clicking the block with the module.^[25][26]

Sending out comes in three tiers. Sender Mk1 reaches up to 8 blocks (16 with Range Up Augments) along a straight axis, and needs clear line of sight. Glass, fences and iron bars are fine, but opaque blocks are not. Sender Mk2 reaches up to 24 blocks (48 with Range augments) with no line of sight needed. Sender Mk3 can send to any inventory in any dimension, but the target must be chunk-loaded.^[27][28][29]

Distributor Module extends the Sender Mk2 idea to up to 8 targets. You choose a strategy: Round Robin, Random, Nearest or Furthest. Sneak-right-click an inventory to add it, and again to remove it.^[30]

Player Module moves items between the router and a player's inventory, in any dimension. It can use the main inventory, armor, offhand or Ender inventory. It is tied to a specific player, and the tooltip shows the owner.^[31]

Working on the world

Placer Module places the buffered item as a block next to the router, following normal Minecraft placement rules. Dropper Module drops the item as an entity with zero velocity. Flinger Module adds a configurable speed, pitch and yaw. Activator Module acts like a fake player and has three modes: right-click, right-click entity and attack entity. Attack mode costs Forge Energy by default.^{[16][32][33][34]}

The Breaker, Placer and Activator modules all work as a fake player using the game profile of whoever placed the router. This matters on servers with claim protection mods like FTB Chunks.^[18]

The Vacuum Module scans a 13x13x13 area centred on the router by default. Range Up Augments grow that to a maximum of 25x25x25, and Range Down Augments shrink it to 3x3x3. If you set a direction, the area shifts that way instead.^[35]

Fluids

Routers have no internal tank. They can only handle fluids when a single fluid container item, such as a bucket, sits in the buffer. Fluid Module Mk1 either pulls fluid from an adjacent block into that container or pushes it out to the world or an adjacent tank. Its filter slots accept only fluid-containing items and filter by the contained fluid.^[36]

The router's overall fluid rate starts at 50 mB/tick, which the guide describes as 1 bucket per second. Speed Upgrades only make transfers happen more often, not faster. Each Fluid Transfer Upgrade adds 10 mB/tick, up to a maximum of 400 mB/tick, so a router takes at most 35 of them.^[36][37]

Fluid Module Mk2 adds a targeted mode with a range of up to 12 blocks, or 24 with Range Up Augments. You set the target by sneak-right-clicking a block.^[38]

Energy

An Energy Upgrade gives the router an internal energy buffer. Per the guide, each upgrade adds 50,000 FE of capacity and 1,000 FE per router tick of transfer rate. The guide says both figures are adjustable in the mod config. Energy Output Module pushes FE to an adjacent block, and Energy Distributor Module sends it to up to 8 nearby blocks. Both draw from the internal buffer first, and otherwise from an energy-holding item in the item buffer.^[39][40][41]

An energy-holding item in the buffer can also be charged from the router's internal energy, or drain energy back into it. A button in the router GUI switches the direction.^[39]

Augments

Augments go into a module, not the router. Every module has 4 augment slots, and the augments allowed depend on the module type. Some can be stacked.^[5][7]

• Range Up Augment and Range Down Augment change the range of any ranged module by one block each.^[17][42]
• The Stack Augment doubles the items a module handles per tick, up to the item's natural stack size. It overrides the router's Stack Upgrades. For example, 6 Stack Upgrades with 2 Stack Augments on a module gives 4 items per tick, not 64.^[15]
• The Regulator Augment adds a numeric limit that senders, pullers and similar modules check against inventory contents. Fluid modules can use a percentage of the tank or an amount in mB instead.^[12]
• Redstone Augment lets a single module set its own redstone behaviour, instead of running whenever the router runs.^[43]
• Fast Pickup Augment lets a Vacuum Module skip the normal item pickup delay.^[44]
• Pickup Delay Augment adds 10 ticks of pickup delay per augment to items from a Dropper or Flinger.^[45]
• Pushing Augment increases how hard extruders shove entities.^[46]
• Mimic Augment makes blocks from Extruder Module Mk2 take on the properties of the block they imitate.^[47]

Protecting and hiding a router

A Security Upgrade means only whitelisted players can open the router. It does not stop the router being broken, but modules and upgrades stay inside a broken router. The Blast Upgrade makes a router immune to explosions and boss mobs. The Camouflage Upgrade disguises it as another block. The Muffler Upgrade suppresses sounds, then particles, then the router's active animation as you add more of them.^{[48][49][50][51]}

Unverified The in-game guide says several values here (router tick rate, Eco Mode timings, energy upgrade capacity and transfer rate, module energy costs) are adjustable in the mod config. No config files for this mod were available for the pack, so any pack-specific changes to those values could not be checked. Treat the numbers above as the mod's documented values and confirm tooltips in-game.

Modular Routers doesn't have a tech tree with gated stages. The Modular Router is the only block in the mod, and everything else you craft goes into it as a module, upgrade or augment. Here's how I'd climb it.^[11][52]

Unverified The sources I was given show no quests that involve Modular Routers in this pack, so there is no quest-guided path. The order below follows the in-pack recipes and the in-game guide instead. This site does hold All the Mods 11's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Step 1: the router and blank parts

Start with the router itself. Modules define what it does, and upgrades enhance or modify it.^[52][53]

4× Modular RouterMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Iron Bars	any iron ingot
Iron Bars	Blank Module	Iron Bars
any iron ingot	Iron Bars	any iron ingot

Recipe id: modularrouters:modular_router

Most module and upgrade crafting starts from a blank base, so keep these two recipes handy. The recipe dump I have doesn't list their inputs, so check the recipe cards here for the exact in-pack ingredients.^[13]

6× Blank ModuleMod recipe

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Empty slot	any redstone dust	Empty slot
Paper	Paper	Paper
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: modularrouters:blank_module

4× Blank UpgradeMod recipe

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Paper	Paper	any gold nugget
Paper	any lapi gems	any gold nugget
Empty slot	Paper	any gold nugget

Recipe id: modularrouters:blank_upgrade

Step 2: modules and their Mk tiers

Some modules come in numbered tiers. This pack has recipes for Sender Module Mk1, Sender Module Mk2 and Sender Module Mk3, plus Puller Mk1 and Mk2 (Puller Module Mk1, Puller Module Mk2), Fluid Mk1 and Mk2 (Fluid Module Mk1, Fluid Module Mk2), and the Extruder Module Mk2.^[13]

The Regulator Augment treats all three Sender tiers alike, and the Range augments work on both Sender and Puller tiers. The Fluid Transfer Upgrade only affects the two Fluid modules.^{[12][17][37][42]}

Step 3: upgrades

A router has 5 upgrade slots. You can put several upgrades in one slot, but each upgrade type has its own cap.^[6]

• Stack Upgrade: each one doubles how many items a module processes per router tick, up to 64 or the item's native stack size. That makes 6 the most useful number in one router. The guide says to prefer these over speed.^[19][54]
• Speed Upgrade: a router ticks every 20 server ticks by default, and each upgrade cuts that by 2, down to a minimum of 2. Use them sparingly, since they cost server performance. The base rate, the per-upgrade step and the minimum are all configurable in config/modularrouters-common.toml.^[19]
• Fluid Transfer Upgrade: raises fluid transfer from the base 50mB/tick in steps of 10mB/tick, up to a maximum of 400mB/tick. That caps out at 35 upgrades.^[37]
• Energy Upgrade: gives the router an energy buffer. Each upgrade adds 50,000 FE of buffer and 1,000 FE per router tick of transfer rate, and the guide says both figures are adjustable in the mod config.^[39]
• Security Upgrade: only whitelisted players can open the router. It holds up to 7 players including the creator, and you can install more than one if needed.^[48]
• Sync Upgrade: makes routers with the same tuning value (0 to 19) and the same number of Speed Upgrades run on the same tick. This is handy for groups of Extruder Modules.^[55]
• Muffler Upgrade: one or more disable all audible effects, stacking more also disables particle effects (beams and flying items), and with three the router's active animation is disabled as well.^[51]
• Blast Upgrade and Camouflage Upgrade: the Blast Upgrade makes the router immune to explosion damage and to being destroyed by boss mobs. The Camouflage Upgrade disguises it as a block you record with Sneak+Right-click.^[49][50]

The numbers above come from the in-game guide. The sources I have don't show whether the pack changed any of them, but several are config-adjustable, so your tooltips are the final word.^[19][39]

Step 4: augments and filters

Augments go into individual modules, while smart filters go in a module's filter slots in place of a regular item. The Augment Core has its own recipe.^[13][20][56]

4× Augment CoreMod recipe

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• Blank Module
• Blank Upgrade

Recipe id: modularrouters:augment_core

• Range Up Augment and Range Down Augment: each one changes a module's range by one block, and both can be stacked.^[17][42]
• Regulator Augment: sets a limit on how many items a module sends or pulls, or on when it runs.^[12]
• Redstone Augment: works on any module and adds its own redstone behaviour button to the module's GUI.^[43]
• Fast Pickup Augment: Vacuum Module only. It ignores the normal pickup delay, and you can add at most one.^[44]
• Pickup Delay Augment: Dropper and Flinger modules only. Each one adds 10 ticks of pickup delay.^[45]
• Mimic Augment and Pushing Augment: the Mimic Augment is for the Extruder Mk2 only. The Pushing Augment works on Extruder Mk1 and Mk2 and increases the shove force.^[46][47]

The pack also has recipes for filters such as the Mod Filter, Tag Filter, Regex Filter, Bulk Item Filter and Inspection Filter.^[13]

All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta ships Modular Routers 26.1.2.2. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 11 0.0.19 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the pack.^[2]

26.1.2.1

This was the initial release for Minecraft 26.1.2. The mod's changelog says it is equivalent in functionality to the latest 1.21.1 release, so it was a port rather than a feature update.^[57]

26.1.2.2 (the version in this pack)

This is the version you're playing with. It's mostly a bug-fix release, with one small addition:^[2][58]

• Fixed the Distributor Module not pulling correctly.^[58]
• Fixed Muffler Upgrades not suppressing block-break particles for the Breaker Module.^[58]
• Added the modularrouters:player_module_blacklist item tag, which stops certain items from being handled by the Player Module. It contains no items by default.^[58]
• Fixed some missing GUI text, which was being drawn with a 0 alpha level.^[58]
• Fixed a few translations.^[58]