Compacter in Project Infinity 0.1

The Compacter is a single block that crafts items into their compressed form for you. Think storage blocks, like turning loose items into blocks without touching a crafting table. It adds nothing else to the pack.^[1]

What it does

• You pick the crafting pattern in its GUI: 3x3, 2x2, 1x1 or hollow. It then crafts your input items in that pattern and outputs the result.^[1]
• It processes unlimited items per tick, as long as it has enough items and energy.^[1]
• It uses FE power for every operation.^[1]
• You can set it to work only while a redstone signal is applied, also from the GUI.^[1]
• Recursive compacting mode, also enabled in the GUI, makes it try to combine its own output again, for example for compressed cobble.^[1]

The pack ships Compacter 1.11.0.4 for Minecraft 1.20.1. The mod itself needs BDLib and Scalable Cats Force to run.^[1][2]

In the quest book

The pack's quest book covers the Compacter in the chapter "Useful mods and Items", which is chapter 3 of 44 and holds 37 quests. The entry is "Compactor" quest, titled "Compactor", and its description reads "for the sieve?". The task is simply to have the Compacter.^[3]

The chapter is a grab bag of handy utilities. Other entries in it include "Compact Machines" quest, "Digital Miner" quest and "Cobblestone Generator" quest.^[3]

Good news: Compacter adds just one block, so there is no long tech tree to climb. Your first step in this pack is simply to make the Compacter, a machine that crafts and uncrafts recipes in a 2x2 or 3x3 pattern, which is handy for storage blocks.^[1]

Step 1: craft the Compacter

The pack uses the mod's own recipe for it, so you can make it as soon as you like. Here is the exact in-pack recipe:^[4]

CompacterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Piston	Redstone	Piston
Redstone	Crafting Table	Redstone
Piston	Redstone	Piston

Recipe id: compacter:compacter

The pack's quest book also asks for it. The quest "Compactor" quest sits in the chapter "Useful mods and Items" (chapter 3 of 44) and carries the note "for the sieve?".^[3]

Step 2: power it and set it up

1. Give the Compacter FE power. It uses FE for every operation, so it will not work without an energy supply.^[1]
2. Open its GUI and pick a pattern. It can try 3x3, 2x2, 1x1 or hollow crafting on the input items and then output the result.^[1]
3. If you want it to run only on demand, set it in the GUI to work only when a redstone signal is applied.^[1]
4. For chains such as compressed cobble, enable recursive compacting in the GUI. It will try combining the output items again.^[1]

The mod needs BDLib and Scalable Cats Force to run. No config files for Compacter were found in the pack, so everything you adjust is done in the machine's GUI.^[1]

The Compacter is a single machine that crafts storage-style recipes for you. The project page describes it as a block that can quickly craft recipes in a 2x2 or 3x3 pattern, which makes it handy for storage blocks and similar compressing jobs.^[1]

Crafting patterns

You choose what the machine tries to do from its GUI. It will attempt to craft the items you feed it in a 3x3, 2x2, 1x1 or hollow pattern, then output the result.^[1]

Power and speed

• The Compacter uses FE for every operation, so it needs an energy supply.^[1]
• It processes unlimited items per tick, as long as enough items and energy are provided. In practice, power and input supply are your only limits.^[1]

Redstone control

You can set the machine in its GUI to work only while a redstone signal is applied. This is useful if you want to switch a compressing line on and off.^[1]

Recursive compacting

Recursive compacting mode can also be enabled from the GUI. In this mode the machine tries to combine its own outputs again. The project page gives compressed cobble as an example of where that helps.^[1]

Crafting it

The machine has a normal shaped crafting recipe in this pack.^[4]

CompacterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Piston	Redstone	Piston
Redstone	Crafting Table	Redstone
Piston	Redstone	Piston

Recipe id: compacter:compacter

Good to know

• The mod needs BDLib and Scalable Cats Force to run.^[1]
• The pack has no config files for this mod, so the behaviour above is controlled from the machine's GUI and not from a config.^[1]

Unverified The project page says the Compacter can also uncraft recipes, but the sources do not explain how to set that up. Item, fluid and automation handling (which sides accept input or output, buffer sizes, FE capacity or cost per operation) is also not covered by the sources. A second block called Cobbler appears in the language file, but nothing explains what it does.

Compacter is a very small mod in this pack, so there is no tier ladder to climb. The sources show a single item, the Compacter, and nothing that upgrades it or builds on it.^[4]

Where the quest book puts it

The quest book covers the Compacter in the quest "Compactor" quest, titled "Compactor". It sits in the chapter "Useful mods and Items", which is chapter 3 of 44 in the book and holds 37 quests. The quest has one task: have the Compacter. Its description is just "for the sieve?", a hint that the book sees it as a companion to sieve setups. The quest gives no further explanation.^[3]

Crafting it

There is one recipe for the Compacter. It is a shaped crafting table recipe, and the recipe dump lists it as the mod's own recipe, so nothing in the sources shows the pack changing it. Here is the exact in-pack recipe:^[4]

CompacterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Piston	Redstone	Piston
Redstone	Crafting Table	Redstone
Piston	Redstone	Piston

Recipe id: compacter:compacter

Progression in practice

Since the recipe uses only basic materials and the quest book places it among the general "Useful mods and Items" quests, you can pick it up whenever you need it. The sources give no gating beyond that, and the quest does not describe any prerequisites.^[3][4]

Unverified What the Compacter actually does in play (how it compacts items, any settings, and how it works with sieve setups) is not covered by the sources for this pack, so check it in-game.

In this pack, the Compacter connects to other mods through one crafting recipe and one quest book entry. That is all the sources show, so this section is short.^[3][4]

Multi Compressor controller recipe

The pack adds its own shaped crafting recipe for the Multi Compressor Controller, and the Compacter is one of its ingredients. The recipe also takes an Compacting Drawer, so you need storage and compacting pieces from other mods on hand before you can build it. Here is the exact in-pack recipe:^[4]

Multi Compressor ControllerAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone Servo	Compacting Drawer	Rf Coil
Cobalt Block	Manasteel Ingot	Cobalt Block
Rf Coil	Compacter	Redstone Servo

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/mm_multi_compressor_controller

This recipe is added by the pack, so it is the one to follow here.

Quest book

The quest "Compactor" quest sits in the chapter "Useful mods and Items", which is chapter 3 of 44 in the book and holds 37 quests. Most of its neighbours cover items from other mods. The task is to obtain the Compacter. The quest's own description reads "for the sieve?", and the quest book does not explain that any further.^[3]

In the pack's quest book, this mod's quest is in the chapter "Useful mods and Items", which is chapter 3 of 44 and holds 37 quests.^[3]

The quest is "Compactor" quest, titled "Compactor". Its only task is to obtain the Compacter. The quest description reads "for the sieve?".^[3]

Compacter is a small mod, and its own changelog for the version in this pack is short. It lists only two notable changes, and both are Minecraft version updates.^[5]

• 1.10.0: updated to Minecraft 1.19.3.^[5]
• 1.11.0: updated to Minecraft 1.20.1.^[5]

In Project Infinity

Project Infinity 0.1 0.0.51.4-hotfix-2 ships Compacter 1.11.0.4, built for Minecraft 1.20.1. The mod was already in the pack by version 0.0.45.4 or earlier, so it has been there for a good while.^[2]