LaserIO in FTB StoneBlock 4

LaserIO is a logistics mod: it moves items, fluids, energy and more between inventories without pipes or conduits. This pack ships version 1.9.11. If you want to automate a base by moving things between chests, furnaces, tanks and machines, this is the mod for it.^[1][2][3][4]

The key idea is that Laser Node blocks do nothing on their own. Cards are how Nodes interact with adjacent blocks, and each card type handles one kind of thing.^[5]

• Item Card sends items between inventories such as chests and furnaces.^[4]
• Fluid Card sends fluids between inventories such as tanks.^[3]
• Energy Card sends energy between machines and batteries.^[2]
• Chemical Card sends chemicals, such as between Mekanism tanks.^[6]
• Redstone Card carries redstone signals across the whole LaserIO network on its own dedicated redstone channel.^[7]

Cards only interact with other cards on the same channel, so one network can run several separate routing setups at once. Filters then control what the cards are allowed to move.^[8][9]

Speed is worth planning for. An Item Card moves 8 items every 20 ticks with no Overclockers, and up to 64 items per tick with 4 Overclockers. Energy Cards are different: they can't take Overclockers and always run at up to 1,000,000 FE per tick, though you can lower that.^[2][4]

Where it fits in the pack

The pack's automation quest chapter has a quest, "LaserIO" quest, that asks you to get a Laser Wrench, a Laser Node, a Laser Connector and one card. The card can be an Item, Fluid, Energy, Redstone or Chemical Card. That is a good sign LaserIO is meant to be part of your automation setup.^[10]

LaserIO moves items, fluids, energy and redstone signals between inventories. Everything starts from one ingredient, so you build it up in a clear order: chip, wrench, connector, node, then your first card.^[11][12]

Make Logic Chips first

The Logic Chip is the main crafting ingredient in LaserIO. It's the only item made from vanilla materials, and everything else uses a chip in one way or another. In this pack you get one by smelting a Raw Logic Chip.^[12][13]

Logic ChipMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Logic Chip

Recipe id: laserio:logic_chip

Laser Wrench, Laser Connector and Laser Node

The Laser Wrench links blocks together. Shift-right-click one block to select it, then right-click another to connect them. The maximum connection range is 8 blocks.^[14]

Laser WrenchMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
Empty slot	Logic Chip	Empty slot
Empty slot	any iron ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_wrench

Next comes the Laser Connector. It's a cheaper intermediary point between nodes, handy when they are further apart than the wrench's range.^[11][15]

Laser ConnectorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any glass blocks	Empty slot
any redstone dust	Logic Chip	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_connector

The Laser Node is the most important block in the mod, because it's what interacts with adjacent blocks. In this pack its recipe builds on the Laser Connector, so make the connector first. Each side of a node has a 3x3 grid of slots for cards, and you right-click a side to open its UI.^[11][13]

Laser NodeMod recipe

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any iron ingot	any glass panes	any iron ingot
any glass panes	Laser Connector	any glass panes
any iron ingot	any glass panes	any iron ingot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_node

Your first card

A node does nothing without cards, because cards are how nodes interact with adjacent blocks. Start with the Item Card, which sends items between inventories such as chests and furnaces.^[4][5]

Item CardMod recipe

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any redstone dust	any lapi gems	any redstone dust
any quartz gem	Logic Chip	any quartz gem
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: laserio:card_item

A card works in one of three modes. Extract pulls from the adjacent block and sends to Insert cards. Insert is the destination. Stock pulls the items in its filter from Insert cards on the network. Cards only talk to other cards on the same channel, so you can run several separate setups on one network.^[8][16]

An Item Card moves at most 8 items every 20 ticks by default. Card Overclocker items speed that up, and with 4 installed it reaches 64 items per tick.^[4][17]

Card Holder

Once you have a few cards, make a Card Holder. This pack adds its recipe itself. Right-click it to open its UI. Cards stack up to 64 in it when their NBT data matches. Shift-right-click it to make it pull cards from your inventory automatically, and it glows while that's on.^[13][18]

Card HolderAdded by the pack

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any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any chest	Logic Chip	any chest
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ftb:laserio/card_holder

Where to go next

When you want to control what moves, make a Basic Filter. Its slots are ghost slots that only show an image of an item, so you can drag items in from JEI. To copy settings between cards, use the Card Cloner inside a node screen.^[19][20]

LaserIO is built around two ideas: Laser Node blocks that touch your machines and chests, and cards that tell each node what to do with the block it touches. A node with no cards does nothing, so everything below is about how those two pieces fit together.^[5][11]

Nodes, connectors and the wrench

Each side of a node has a 3x3 grid of card slots. Right click a side to open its screen, and use the buttons along the top to switch sides if the one you want is hard to reach. A single node can work with several adjacent inventories at once.^[11]

To link nodes, shift-right-click one with the Laser Wrench to select it (it highlights green), then right click the other block. The maximum connection range is 8 blocks. For longer gaps, use Laser Connector blocks as cheaper stepping stones between nodes.^[11][14][15]

Laser NodeMod recipe

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any iron ingot	any glass panes	any iron ingot
any glass panes	Laser Connector	any glass panes
any iron ingot	any glass panes	any iron ingot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_node

The Advanced Laser Connector works like a normal connector, but it pairs with exactly one other Advanced Connector. The range between a pair is infinite, even across dimensions. If you pair one that already has a partner with a new one, the old link breaks. Hold the wrench while looking at one to see its partner's coordinates.^[21]

In the network settings screen, which you can open from any node, you can change the network's color and the laser transparency. This is purely cosmetic and has no effect on how the network works.^[22]

Card modes

The mode decides what a card fundamentally does. Item, Fluid and Energy cards all support the same three modes, and Sensor mode is covered under redstone below. Right click a card in your hand, or inside a node screen, to open its settings.^[16][23]

• Insert: a valid destination for things pulled out by Extract cards.^[16]
• Extract: pulls from the adjacent block and sends it to an Insert card. For items, that means from something like a chest.^[16]
• Stock: looks for the items in its filter and pulls them from Insert cards elsewhere in the same network. It needs a filter set to Allow.^[16]

Cards only talk to cards on the same channel. For example, you can put a cobblestone Extract card on Orange and a coal Extract card on Black in the same node. An Orange inserter on top of a furnace and a Black one below it then keep cobblestone and coal going into the right sides.^[8]

The Sneaky setting picks which side of the adjacent block the card works on. A furnace takes items on its top side, so set an insert card to Up to feed it from a node on the side. Another card set to Down can feed fuel from the bottom.^[24]

Routing: priority, round robin, exact, regulate

• Priority (Insert only): by default extractors fill the nearest inventory first. A higher priority number is served first, so 10 beats 0, which beats -10. Equal priorities fall back to nearest first.^[25]
• Round Robin (Extract only): False follows priority and fills the first inventory completely before the next. True spreads items evenly in priority order. Enforced works like True, but the extractor stops if one destination is full until it has room again.^[26]
• Exact (Extract and Stock): the card only moves items once the full Extract Amount is available. In Stock mode it uses whichever is smaller, the amount still needed or the Extract Amount.^[27]
• Regulate (Stock only): with a Counting Filter, the stocker keeps exactly that amount in the inventory. Excess is removed if an inserter can accept it. With Regulate off, extra items stay where they are.^[28]

Speed and overclockers

Extract and Stock cards have two speed settings. Extract Amount defaults to 1 and tops out at 8 without overclockers. Tick Speed defaults to 20 ticks, which is once per second, and can be set as high as 1,200. Left click raises a value, right click lowers it, shift multiplies the step by 10 and control by 64.^[29][30]

Each Card Overclocker installed in a card raises those limits. Extract Amount goes up to 16, 32, 48 and 64 with one to four overclockers. The minimum Tick Speed drops to 15, 10, 5 and 1. So an Item Card with four overclockers can move 64 items every tick, compared with 8 items per 20 ticks with none.^{[4][17][29][30]}

There is a second limit on the node itself. A node side only operates one card per tick. If a side holds three extractors, the second only runs if the first did nothing. Each Node Overclocker on a side lets it work on more cards per tick, up to 8 so that all 9 cards can run. Only Extract and Stock cards need this; Insert cards do not.^[31]

Fluids, chemicals and energy

The Fluid Card moves up to 5,000 mB per operation every 20 ticks with no overclockers. With overclockers the maximum is the number of overclockers times 10,000 mB, and with four installed the card operates every tick. The pack leaves the base and multiplier at the mod defaults: card.fluid_card.base_milli_buckets_fluid and card.fluid_card.multiplier_milli_buckets_fluid.^[3][32]

The Chemical Card handles chemicals such as those in Mekanism tanks, and only exists if Mekanism is installed. It starts at 15,000 mB, and with overclockers the maximum is the number of overclockers times 60,000 mB. With four installed it operates every tick. These come from card.chemical_card.base_milli_buckets_chemical and card.chemical_card.multiplier_milli_buckets_chemical, which the pack leaves at default. The pack does change this card's crafting recipe.^[6][13][32]

Chemical CardChanged by the pack

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any redstone dust	any basic circuit	any redstone dust
any quartz gem	Logic Chip	any quartz gem
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: laserio:card_chemical

This recipe is changed by the pack.

The Energy Card works differently. It can run every tick by default, and it does not accept overclockers. It is capped at 1,000,000 FE per tick, set by card.energy_card.max_fe_tick, and you can lower it if you wish.^[2][32]

Energy cards also have a Limit % setting. In Insert and Stock modes it defaults to 100% and sets how full the target gets, so a lower value stops filling the block before it is full. In Extract mode it defaults to 0% and sets how much to leave behind. At 25% on a cell that holds 1,000,000 FE, it never extracts below 250,000 FE. The percentage does not work on storage above about 2.14 billion FE.^[2][33]

Filters

Filters control what cards may move. Open one with a right click, or from inside a card. The Counting Filter has no Allow/Deny switch because it is always in Allow mode. Filters that compare item data have a Compare NBT toggle. With it on, a damaged or enchanted sword counts as different from a fresh one.^[34][35][36]

• Basic Filter: a set of ghost slots that only show an item image. You can drag items in from JEI if it is installed.^[19]
• Counting Filter: sets an amount from 1 to 4096. On a Stock card it keeps that amount in stock. On an Insert card it limits how much can be sent to that inventory. On an Extract card it leaves that many behind. It is always in Allow mode.^[35]
• Tag Filter: filters by item tags, treated as an 'or' list, so any one matching tag is enough. It does not do NBT comparison.^[36]
• Mod Filter: matches everything from one mod. Put a Laser Wrench in it and all LaserIO items and blocks match.^[37]
• Data Filter: works like the Tag Filter, but matches items carrying certain data tags regardless of their values. For example, an 'Enchantments' tag sorts all enchanted items from unenchanted ones.^[38]

Redstone

The Redstone Card carries redstone signals across the whole network on its own redstone channel, separate from the item channels. In Input mode it takes a signal from dust, a lever or a button. In Output mode it emits a signal, either Weak (only directly adjacent blocks, like dust) or Strong (through an adjacent block, like a lever).^[7]

Every card also has a redstone mode. The default is ignored, so the card always runs. Low means it runs only when there is no signal on its redstone channel, and high means it runs only when there is one.^[7][39]

Sensor mode moves nothing. It checks the adjacent inventory, tank or cell against its filter and emits a signal of strength 15 on its redstone channel when it matches. A Sensor needs a filter to do anything. A Basic Filter checks for any amount. A Counting Filter checks for at least the set amount, or exactly that amount if you enable exact mode. An And/Or button decides whether all filter entries or just one must match. The guide recommends only one sensor card per side per redstone channel, since more can cause race conditions.^[40]

Managing cards

The Card Holder stores your cards, filters and overclockers. Cards stack up to 64 when their NBT data matches. Stacks larger than 1 have their filter and overclocker slots disabled to prevent duping. Shift-right-click the holder to make it pull cards from your inventory automatically (it glows while active), and shift-right-click again to turn that off. The pack adds its own recipe for the holder.^[13][18]

Card HolderAdded by the pack

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any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any chest	Logic Chip	any chest
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ftb:laserio/card_holder

Crafting a card or filter by itself resets its stored data, which is the quickest way to get stackable blank cards. Filters with stored data are not auto-added to a holder, but you can still put them in by hand.^[13][18]

The Card Cloner copies settings between cards. In a node screen, pick it up on your cursor, left click a card to copy its settings and right click another to paste. Overclockers and filters are taken from, or returned to, the available Card Holder, not your inventory. If anything needed is missing, the whole paste fails rather than applying partially.^[20]

Nearly every LaserIO item uses a Logic Chip, which you make by smelting a Raw Logic Chip.^[12][13]

Logic ChipMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Logic Chip

Recipe id: laserio:logic_chip

LaserIO in this pack grows in stages around one item, the Logic Chip. You get it by smelting a Raw Logic Chip, and nearly every other LaserIO recipe in the pack starts from it.^[13]

Stage 1: the quest and the basic network

The pack's automation chapter has one LaserIO quest, "LaserIO" quest. It asks you to get a Laser Wrench, a Laser Node, a Laser Connector, and one card of any of these types: Item, Fluid, Energy, Redstone or Chemical.^[10]

Logic ChipMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Logic Chip

Recipe id: laserio:logic_chip

You smelt the Raw Logic Chip to get a Logic Chip.

Laser WrenchMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
Empty slot	Logic Chip	Empty slot
Empty slot	any iron ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_wrench

The wrench starts from a Logic Chip.

Laser ConnectorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any glass blocks	Empty slot
any redstone dust	Logic Chip	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_connector

The connector also starts from a Logic Chip.

Laser NodeMod recipe

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any iron ingot	any glass panes	any iron ingot
any glass panes	Laser Connector	any glass panes
any iron ingot	any glass panes	any iron ingot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_node

The Laser Node builds on the Laser Connector.

Cards are how Nodes interact with adjacent blocks. Without them a Node is worthless, so pick the card that matches what you want to move.^[5]

Stage 2: choosing your cards

• Item Card moves items between inventories such as chests and furnaces. With no overclockers it moves 8 items per 20 ticks.^[4]
• Fluid Card moves fluids between inventories such as tanks, and its speed also scales with overclockers.^[3]
• Energy Card moves energy between machines and batteries. It can operate every tick by default, and overclockers can't go into it.^[2]
• Redstone Card sends redstone signals across the whole network on its own dedicated redstone channel.^[7]
• Chemical Card moves chemicals between inventories such as Mekanism tanks, and is only available if Mekanism is installed.^[6]

Item CardMod recipe

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any redstone dust	any lapi gems	any redstone dust
any quartz gem	Logic Chip	any quartz gem
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: laserio:card_item

Every card recipe starts from a Logic Chip.

The pack changed the Chemical Card recipe from the mod's own version, so trust the recipe shown here and not the mod's defaults.^[13]

Chemical CardChanged by the pack

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any redstone dust	any basic circuit	any redstone dust
any quartz gem	Logic Chip	any quartz gem
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: laserio:card_chemical

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Stage 3: filters, overclockers and quality of life

Once your network moves things, filters let you control what is allowed through. Start with the Basic Filter. The Counting Filter, Mod Filter, Data Filter and Tag Filter are all built starting from a Basic Filter.^[9][13]

The Card Overclocker speeds up your cards. On an Item Card, 4 overclockers raise the maximum from 8 items per 20 ticks to 64 items per tick.^[4][13]

The Card Holder is a recipe the pack adds. It stores cards in stacks of up to 64 when their NBT data matches, and it can also hold filters and overclockers.^[13][18]

Card HolderAdded by the pack

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any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any chest	Logic Chip	any chest
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ftb:laserio/card_holder

This recipe is added by the pack.

The Card Cloner copies card settings from one card to another, so you don't have to configure each card by hand.^[13][20]

Stage 4: long-range links

The Advanced Laser Connector connects to basic connectors and nodes up to 8 blocks away. It can only pair with one other Advanced Connector, and that pair has infinite range, even across dimensions.^[13][21]

Advanced Laser ConnectorMod recipe

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any ender pearl	any diamond gem	any ender pearl
any redstone dust	Laser Connector	any redstone dust
any gold ingot	any gold ingot	any gold ingot

Recipe id: laserio:laser_connector_advanced

The Advanced Laser Connector builds on a basic Laser Connector.

LaserIO doesn't have a big web of recipes with other mods in this pack. What the sources confirm is two recipes that mix LaserIO items with items from other mods, and a few cards that work with blocks from other mods.^[2][6][13]

Recipes that cross mods

The pack adds a Custom Machinery recipe that uses the Logic Chip together with the Charged Redstone Crystal and quartz. Because it's a Custom Machinery recipe, you don't make it on a crafting table. The recipe is below.^[13]

The pack also changed a shapeless crafting recipe that turns the Logic Chip into the Guide Book. Use this version of the recipe.^[13]

Guide BookChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Logic Chip
• Book

Recipe id: laserio:my_book_recipe_shapeless

Cards that work with other mods' blocks

The Chemical Card sends chemicals between inventories, such as Mekanism tanks. The in-game guide says these cards are only available if Mekanism is installed. How fast they move chemicals depends on how many Overclockers you use, and the guide lists the exact values.^[6]

The Energy Card moves energy between inventories such as machines and batteries, so it can feed or drain machines from other mods. It always operates at a maximum of 1,000,000 FE/tick, and you can lower that. It also can't take Overclockers.^[2]

Quest tie-in

Quest "LaserIO" quest in the automation chapter asks for the Laser Wrench, the Laser Node, the Laser Connector, and any one of the item, fluid, energy, redstone or chemical cards. All of these are LaserIO items, so this quest doesn't mix mods. It does place LaserIO in the pack's automation chapter.^[10]

In this pack, LaserIO shows up in a single quest, in the processing automation chapter. The quest is "LaserIO" quest, and it has no title in the quest data.^[10]

What the quest asks for

Every task in this quest is an item task. The quest file lists them in this order:^[10]

1. Get a Laser Wrench.^[10]
2. Get a Laser Node.^[10]
3. Get a Laser Connector.^[10]
4. Get a card. This task accepts any one of the LaserIO cards: the Item Card, Fluid Card, Energy Card, Redstone Card or Chemical Card.^[10]

The card task is not tied to a single type, so you can hand in whichever card suits the setup you want to build first.^[10]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

LaserIO keeps its card limits in one file, config/laserio-common.toml. Here's the good news: in this pack, every option below is set to the mod's default value. The pack changed none of them.^[41]

Fluid Card limits

• card.fluid_card.base_milli_buckets_fluid is 5,000 in this pack (the mod default is also 5,000). This is how many millibuckets a Fluid Card can move without any Overclockers installed.^[41]
• card.fluid_card.multiplier_milli_buckets_fluid is 10,000 in this pack (also the mod default). The number of Overclockers multiplied by this value gives the card's maximum millibuckets.^[41]

Chemical Card limits

These two options only apply if Mekanism is installed, according to the config's own comments. They work the same way as the fluid options, just with bigger numbers.^[41]

• card.chemical_card.base_milli_buckets_chemical is 15,000 in this pack (the mod default is 15,000). This is the amount for a Chemical Card without Overclockers.^[41]
• card.chemical_card.multiplier_milli_buckets_chemical is 60,000 in this pack (also the mod default). The number of Overclockers multiplied by this value gives the maximum millibuckets.^[41]

Energy Card limit

card.energy_card.max_fe_tick caps how much FE per tick an Energy Card can move. This pack sets it to 1,000,000, which matches the mod default.^[41]