Super Factory Manager in FTB Evolution 2

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.

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta guide

Super Factory Manager (SFM) moves items around by running a script that you write, instead of using flowchart screens. To get your first setup running you need a Factory Manager, a Factory Manager Program Disk and a Label Gun. Inventory Cable items are optional, and you use them to connect the manager to your inventories.^[1]

Craft the Factory Manager

The Factory Manager is the block you place in the world and connect to your inventories, so it comes first. Here is the recipe used in this pack:^[1][3]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:manager

Craft a Program Disk

The Factory Manager Program Disk goes inside the manager's GUI, and it is where your labels get saved at the end of setup.^[1][3]

Factory Manager Program DiskMod recipe

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Paper	any green dye	Paper
any red dye	Redstone Block	any blue dye
Redstone	Repeater	Redstone

Recipe id: sfm:disk

You can also right-click a disk in your hand to edit it outside of a manager.^[4]

Get a Label Gun

The Label Gun is how you load labels from your program and apply them to blocks in the world. It is on the list of things you need for a basic setup.^[1]

Label GunMod recipe

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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

The pack's recipe dump lists this recipe id as producing the Label Gun.

Add cables and the Network Tool

Use Inventory Cable items to connect the manager to your inventories. This is the pack's recipe:^[1][3]

16× Inventory CableMod recipe

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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

The Network Tool is a handy extra. While you hold it, it shows cables through walls, and right-clicking a block face shows diagnostic info.^[3][4]

Network ToolMod recipe

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Empty slot	Redstone Lamp	any sign
Empty slot	Iron Ingot	Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate
Iron Ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: sfm:network_tool

Set up your first program

1. Place the Factory Manager in the world 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]
4. Hover over the disk to see 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.^[1]
7. Right-click the manager without holding Shift to save the labels to the Program Disk.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.10.0-beta guide

Super Factory Manager works differently from most automation mods. In this pack it is version 4, which replaces the old flowchart screens with a scripting language. You write a program, store it on a disk, and a manager block runs it against the inventories it can reach through cables.^[1]

Setting up a manager

The basic kit is a Factory Manager, a Factory Manager Program Disk and a Label Gun, plus Inventory Cable if you want to link inventories. Here is the order that works:^[1][4]

1. Place the Factory Manager in the world 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 on-screen buttons or with Ctrl+V. The manager tells you when the script has 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 that label. A right-click menu lets you enter a custom label that is not 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]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:manager

The Factory Manager is the block that runs your program.

Factory Manager Program DiskMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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Paper	any green dye	Paper
any red dye	Redstone Block	any blue dye
Redstone	Repeater	Redstone

Recipe id: sfm:disk

The disk stores your program and its labels.

16× Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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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

This recipe makes 16 Inventory Cables at a time.

The manager screen

The manager screen shows its current state: running, invalid program, missing disk or no program. That is the quickest check when something is not moving.^[4]

It also has buttons to copy to and paste from the clipboard, to reset the disk, to view examples (Ctrl+Shift+E), to view logs and to view the server config. Pasting and resetting both ask you to confirm first. Reset wipes the program and the labels, so be careful with it.^[4]

The screen also shows the hovered tick time and the peak tick time in milliseconds, so you can see what a program costs. The logs screen has trace, debug and info levels, which switch off again after a single program execution. Logging can make statements take longer to run.^[4]

You do not have to stand at a manager to edit a program. Right-click a disk in your hand to edit it anywhere. The disk's tooltip lists its labels and how many blocks each one is applied to.^[4]

Labels and the Label Gun

The Label Gun moves labels between itself and the manager. It either pulls labels from the manager or pushes them to it, and a modifier key switches between the two. It tells you in chat which one it just did. If it skips blocks that are not touching cables, it reports how many. The gun's screen has a search box for new labels, plus Clear and Prune buttons.^[4]

Cables and the cable network

Cables are what connect a manager to your inventories. There are plain, fancy, tough and tunnelled variants, and each has a facade version. Breaking a facade block gives you back the matching cable item.^{[4][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

• Tough Inventory Cable resists explosions and can be facaded as tougher blocks. Tough Fancy Inventory Cable is the fancy version of the same cable.^[4]
• Tunnelled Inventory Cable passes capabilities through to the opposite side. Tunnelled Fancy Inventory Cable is its fancy version.^[4]
• Tunnelled Factory Manager also passes capabilities through to the opposite side.^[4]
• Changing a facade asks for confirmation. The prompt tells you how many facade states across how many blocks will be overwritten or cleared.^[4]

Tough Inventory CableMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:tough_cable

The recipe for the explosion-resistant cable.

Tunnelled Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: sfm:tunnelled_manager

The Tunnelled Factory Manager has its own recipe.

If the network looks wrong, use the Rebuild cable network button on the manager screen. It reports success in chat. If the rebuild fails, it purges all cable networks instead. The logs also warn when no adjacent cable is found for a block, or when a capability result comes back empty.^[4]

Inspecting what a block exposes

The container inspector overlay has two warnings worth remembering. GUI slots do not always match automation slots. Mekanism blocks are read-only from the null direction. It has an Export Inspector button, and a key toggles the overlay.^[4]

Water Tank and Printing Press

The Water Tank needs two adjacent water sources. It is more effective when it also sits next to other active water tanks.^[4]

Water TankMod recipe

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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

The Printing Press needs an air gap below a downward-facing piston. Extend the piston to use it. The mod also adds a Printing Press category and a Falling Anvil category to JEI.^[4]

Printing PressMod recipe

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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 mod also ships two block tags for anvil use. One lists iron block and copper block for printing press forming. The other lists obsidian and crying obsidian for disenchanting.^[4][12][13]

Unverified The mod's server config values are not shown in the sources here. The manager screen has a View server config button where you can read them in game.

What the pack gives you for this mod is a set of crafting recipes. They fall into a sensible order: manager and cables first, then the sturdier cable variants and the Tunnelled Factory Manager.^[14]

Unverified The sources here show no quest for this mod, so where it sits in the pack's progression is unconfirmed. Check the quest book in-game to see whether it is mentioned.

The basics

Everything starts with the Factory Manager, the block that runs your factory programs, and the Inventory Cable that links your inventories to it. The recipe below makes 16 cables per craft.^[14]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:manager

The Factory Manager recipe as it works in this pack.

16× Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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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 gives you 16 Inventory Cables.

The pack also has crafting recipes for the Factory Manager Program Disk and the Network Tool, shown below. The Label Gun also appears in the pack's recipe list.^[14]

Factory Manager Program DiskMod recipe

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Paper	any green dye	Paper
any red dye	Redstone Block	any blue dye
Redstone	Repeater	Redstone

Recipe id: sfm:disk

Network ToolMod recipe

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Empty slot	Redstone Lamp	any sign
Empty slot	Iron Ingot	Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate
Iron Ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: sfm:network_tool

Cable variants

Once the basic network works, the pack has recipes for more cable types: Fancy Inventory Cable, Tough Inventory Cable, Tough Fancy Inventory Cable, Tunnelled Inventory Cable and Tunnelled Fancy Inventory Cable. Each has its own block with a loot table that drops itself, so you can pick a cable back up.^{[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]}

Fancy Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Inventory Cable

Recipe id: sfm:fancy_cable

A shapeless recipe that gives the Fancy Inventory Cable.

Tough Inventory CableMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:tough_cable

You can also go back down a tier. Shapeless recipes turn fancy and tough cables back into plain Inventory Cable, and another turns a Tough Fancy Inventory Cable back into a Fancy Inventory Cable.^[14]

Inventory CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tough Inventory Cable

Recipe id: minecraft:tough_to_cable

Turns a Tough Inventory Cable back into a plain Inventory Cable.

Tunnelled Factory Manager

The top of the manager line is the Tunnelled Factory Manager, which has its own crafting recipe. A separate shapeless recipe (uncraft_tunnelled_manager) gives you a plain Factory Manager.^[14][21]

Factory ManagerMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Tunnelled Factory Manager

Recipe id: minecraft:uncraft_tunnelled_manager

The shapeless recipe that gives you a plain Factory Manager.

Tunnelled Factory ManagerMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:tunnelled_manager

Extras: Printing Press, Water Tank and Experience Goop

The mod also has a Printing Press and a Water Tank, each with its own crafting recipe.^[14][22][23]

Printing PressMod recipe

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

Recipe id: sfm:printing_press

Water TankMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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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

The pack adds its own recipe for Experience Goop. It is made in the fabricating machine from FTB Evolution 2 Companion and uses 4,000 of the experience fluid source from Just Dire Things. This recipe comes from the pack, not from Super Factory Manager itself.^[14]

Experience GoopAdded by the pack

Fabricating (ftbevolutioncompanion)

• 4000× Xp Fluid Source

Recipe id: ftb:fabricating/xp_goop

Added by the pack, not a default mod recipe.

Super Factory Manager does not have many ties to other mods in this pack. The sources show a single item, Experience Goop (Experience Goop), linking it to other mods. The pack's own recipes and scripts are what make that link.^[14][24]

Experience Goop and Just Dire Things

The pack adds a fabricating recipe that makes Experience Goop from an XP fluid source item belonging to Just Dire Things. The recipe type comes from FTB Evolution 2 Companion, so you craft it in that mod's fabricating setup, not at a normal crafting table. This is a pack-added recipe, not something the Super Factory Manager mod ships with.^[14]

Experience GoopAdded by the pack

Fabricating (ftbevolutioncompanion)

• 4000× Xp Fluid Source

Recipe id: ftb:fabricating/xp_goop

Pack-added fabricating recipe for Experience Goop.

Experience Goop as a trade result

The pack also uses Experience Goop in a KubeJS trade script for the after-Wither stage. One trade entry in that script lists Experience Shard on the buy side and Experience Goop on the sell side. It sits in the same trade list as Wither-related entries such as soul sand, Wither skeleton skulls and nether stars.^[24]

So if you want Experience Goop, the sources show two routes: the fabricating recipe above, or that trade entry.^[14][24]

These are the options in the server config for Super Factory Manager that you are most likely to touch. Where the config lists a mod default, this pack uses the same value, so none of those options were changed. The sources here do not show a mod default for the remaining options, so I won't claim they differ from it.^[25]

Timer trigger speed

• timerTriggerMinimumIntervalInTicks is 20 in this pack, the same as the mod default. It is the minimum interval, in ticks, for a timer trigger.^[25]
• timerTriggerMinimumIntervalInTicksWhenOnlyForgeEnergyIOStatementsPresent is 1 in this pack, also the mod default. It is the minimum interval used when a trigger only has Forge energy IO statements.^[25]

Limits and safety switches

• maxIfStatementsInTriggerBeforeSimulationIsntAllowed is 10, the mod default. The number of scenarios checked is 2^n, where n is the number of if statements in a trigger, so the cost grows fast as you add them.^[25]
• maxDiskProblems is 10, the mod default. It is the maximum number of problems annotated on a disk item before the list is truncated.^[25]
• disableProgramExecution is false in this pack. Setting it to true stops factory managers from compiling and running code. The config describes it as an emergency switch.^[25]
• disallowedResourceTypesForTransfer is an empty list in this pack, so no resource types are blocked from being moved.^[25]

Other options

• levelsToShards is set to "JustOne", so an Enchanted Book always converts to 1 Experience Shard regardless of its enchantments. The other allowed values are EachOne, SumLevels and SumLevelsScaledExponentially.^[25]
• With SumLevelsScaledExponentially, the shard count is the sum of 2 to the power of each enchantment's level. The config gives level 1 as 1 shard, level 2 as 4 shards and level 3 as 8 shards.^[25]
• logResourceLossToConsole is true in this pack, so resource loss is logged to the console.^[25]

FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 ships Super Factory Manager 4.34.0. The mod list shows it was already in the pack in 1.0.2 or earlier, so this is the version you get on 1.1.0.^[26]

What changed in 4.34.0

The mod's own changelog for the version in this pack is mostly fixes, plus a couple of small additions. Here is the rundown.^[27]

• Fancy cables can now be waterlogged.^[27]
• There is a new configurable keymapping for opening the label gun GUI.^[27]
• The label gun clear modifier tooltip is fixed. Label gun text and the label gun and network tool highlights no longer render slightly offset at large world coordinates.^[27]
• Falling anvil items no longer spawn in the corner. The JEI catalyst display for the falling anvil experience shard now uses the configured tag instead of a hardcoded obsidian.^[27]
• Program cache invalidation is fixed for the /sfm config edit server command.^[27]
• Two fixes for 26.1.2: the SFM Classic resource pack now loads, and the Ctrl+I container inspector overlay text is no longer invisible.^[26][27]
• The zh_cn localizations are updated, and uk_ua localizations are introduced.^[27]

Unverified The sources here include no pack changelog entries for Super Factory Manager, so what changed for this mod between FTB Evolution 2 releases is not shown. Check the pack's own changelog for that.