PackagedAuto guide for Project Infinity 0.1 0.0.45.4

Same as in the Project Infinity 0.1 0.0.51.4-hotfix-2 guide

PackagedAuto bundles the items of a recipe into packages so crafting tasks get easier to automate. You encode recipes into holders with the Package Recipe Encoder. The holders tell Packagers which Recipe Packages they can make, and the packages are then unpackaged in the Unpackager. Most of the mod is designed with AE2 integration in mind, so each machine has its own ME Network behaviour.^[1]

Encoding recipes

In the Package Recipe Encoder you pick a recipe type, then set the inputs, outputs and their counts, where the type allows it. Put Package Recipe Holder items inside and press the save button. A single holder can store up to 20 recipes, which you choose with the recipe slots at the top of the screen. The preview on the right shows which Recipe Packages will be made. The load button reads recipes back from an encoded holder.^[2]

Package Recipe EncoderMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Packaging Component	any iron ingot
Crafting Table	Glowstone	Crafting Table
any iron ingot	Comparator	any iron ingot

Recipe id: packagedauto:encoder

With JEI you can show every recipe for the current recipe type and use the Move Items button to encode quickly. With EMI the Fill Recipe button does the same job. For recipes that accept several different items in one slot, EMI lets you choose which item to use through the recipe tree.^[2]

An encoded holder can be cleared by placing it in a crafting grid. Combine an encoded holder with empty ones in a crafting grid to copy its contents.^[3]

2× Package Recipe HolderMod recipe

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any glass	any redstone dust	any glass
any redstone dust	Glowstone	any redstone dust
any copper ingot	Packaging Component	any copper ingot

Recipe id: packagedauto:recipe_holder

Packager, Extension and Unpackager

The Packager needs power. Put an encoded holder inside and it can make Recipe Packages for those recipes. Finished packages are ejected into adjacent inventories, and you can pull inputs out from the top side.^[4]

The Packager has a mode setting. Require Exact makes the first package that exactly matches the inventory contents. Require Disjoint looks for packages with no overlap and makes the one the contents can supply, otherwise it falls back to Require Exact. First Match makes the first package the contents can supply.^[4]

The Packager Extension copies a nearby Packager, so you need fewer holders when you parallelize packaging. It needs power. Place it anywhere within a 3x3x3 area around a Packager. If several Packagers are in range, it copies the north-west-bottommost one it finds. It has the same three modes and also lets you extract inputs from the top.^[5]

The Unpackager needs power and takes sets of Recipe Packages. Packages go into trackers, and once a set is complete it is unpackaged into adjacent inventories or package crafting machines, depending on the recipe type. You can change the number of trackers. For processing recipes you can enable blocking mode, which stops it unpackaging into occupied inventories. You can also unpackage a Recipe Package by hand.^[6][7]

In this pack the Packager, Packager Extension and Unpackager recipes each use an ME Packaging Component. That component is built from AE2 parts plus a Packaging Component.^[8]

PackagerMod recipe

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any iron ingot	ME Packaging Component	any iron ingot
any redstone dust	Crafting Table	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	Piston	any iron ingot

Recipe id: packagedauto:packager_ae

UnpackagerMod recipe

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any iron ingot	ME Packaging Component	any iron ingot
any redstone dust	any wooden chest	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	Hopper	any iron ingot

Recipe id: packagedauto:unpackager_ae

Recipe types

Processing is the most basic type, and inputs and outputs are sorted and stacked when encoded. Ordered Processing keeps ingredient order. When unpackaged, items go into adjacent inventories in the encoded order and only into empty slots.^[9][10]

Positioned Processing sends items to separate inventories using a Positioned Package Distributor. Bind Distributor Marker items to inventories and put them in the distributor slots that match the encoded input slots. The distributor respects the blocking mode of the Unpackager it came from. If a target inventory becomes invalid, it ejects all pending items on top of itself, or into the ME Network when connected to one.^[11]

Positioned Package DistributorMod recipe

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any ender pearl	Packaging Component	any ender pearl
Shulker Shell	Distributor Marker	Shulker Shell
any ender pearl	any iron storage block	any ender pearl

Recipe id: packagedauto:distributor

Package crafters

Crafting recipe types use a matching package crafter. The plain Crafting type uses the Package Crafter for recipes that a crafting table can make. It needs power and ejects results into adjacent inventories. On an ME Network it extracts power from the network and sends results into the network instead.^[12]

Package CrafterMod recipe

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any iron ingot	ME Packaging Component	any iron ingot
any redstone dust	Crafting Table	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	Hopper	any iron ingot

Recipe id: packagedauto:crafter_ae

The in-game guide describes the same behaviour for many tiered crafters: Basic, Advanced, Elite, Ultimate, Epic, Legendary, End, Extreme, Nether and Sculk. Each needs power, ejects results into adjacent inventories and uses the network the same way when connected to AE2.^{[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]}

Unverified Among the crafters, only the plain Package Crafter has a recipe in the pack's recipe dump for this mod. Whether the tiered crafters are obtainable in this pack is unverified.

Some crafters need extra blocks around them:^{[23][24][25][26]}

• Combination Package Crafter: connect power to the crafter and place Marked Pedestals in a 7x7 area around it. Use an empty hand on an idle crafter to check the currently usable and required amount of pedestals.^[23]
• Fusion Package Crafter: place enough sufficiently tiered Marked Injectors at least 3 blocks away, facing the crafter unobstructed and connected to power. The crafter needs some power too. Use an empty hand on an idle Fusion Package Crafting Altar to check the currently usable and required amount and tier of injectors.^[24]
• Ender Package Crafter: place Ender Alternators in a 7x7x7 area around it. It needs power.^[25]
• Flux Package Crafter: place powered Flux Alternators in a 7x7x7 area around it. The crafter needs power as well.^[26]

The Combination and Fusion crafters, and their pedestals and injectors, can connect to an ME Network, where they eject crafted and remaining items into the network.^[23][24]

Crafters at a distance

The Package Crafting Machine Proxy lets Unpackagers send items to specialized package crafting machines from a distance. Bind a Proxy Marker to a crafting machine and put the marker in the proxy. You can unbind a marker in a crafting grid, copy a bound marker by combining it with unbound ones, and use an empty hand on the proxy to see its range and target.^[27]

Package Crafting Machine ProxyMod recipe

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any ender pearl	Packaging Component	any ender pearl
Shulker Shell	Proxy Marker	Shulker Shell
Crying Obsidian	any iron storage block	Crying Obsidian

Recipe id: packagedauto:crafting_proxy

Fluids and volume packages

Volume Packages hold bulk materials such as fluids and can be inserted or unpackaged into matching containers. The Fluid Package Filler makes fluid ones and needs power. Place it next to a fluid container, put a template fluid container inside and set the amount of fluid. The gui labels this amount in mB. Then apply a redstone signal to create the package, which is ejected into adjacent inventories.^[28][29][30]

Machines that provide autocrafting to an ME Network can treat the contents of Volume Packages as autocrafting inputs and outputs, and can create them directly.^[29]

Fluid Package FillerMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Packaging Component	any iron ingot
any copper ingot	Bucket	any copper ingot
any iron ingot	Piston	any iron ingot

Recipe id: packagedauto:fluid_package_filler

ME Network handling

The Packager needs a channel on an ME Network. It extracts power from the network, offers packaging as autocrafting and ejects its packages into the network. The Packager Extension does the same, and the guide lists a channel requirement only for the Packager. The Unpackager also needs a channel, extracts power and offers unpackaging as autocrafting once you place an encoded holder inside.^[4][5][6]

The ME Packaging Provider combines the Packager and the Unpackager. It must be on an ME Network and needs a channel. With an encoded holder inside, it provides Direct, Packaging and/or Unpackaging recipes depending on its settings. Direct provides the package recipe as one large processing recipe and skips the packaging and unpackaging steps.^[31]

ME Packaging ProviderMod recipe

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Fluix Pearl	Packager	Fluix Pearl
Unpackager	Engineering Processor	Unpackager
Fluix Pearl	any iron storage block	Fluix Pearl

Recipe id: packagedauto:packaging_provider

Copying settings

The Packaging Settings Cloner copies and pastes settings between machines of the same type. Sneak-use it on a supported machine to copy, then use it on another to paste. Sneak-use it on air or an unsupported block to clear it. What it carries depends on the machine:^[32]

• Packager: the mode and the current recipes. To paste recipes, the target must have none and you need an empty Package Recipe Holder in your inventory.^[4]
• Packager Extension: the mode only.^[5]
• Unpackager: blocking mode, tracker count and the current recipes, with the same rule for pasting recipes.^[6]
• ME Packaging Provider: the providing settings and the current recipes.^[31]
• Crafting proxy and distributor: the target setting. Pasting needs an empty Proxy Marker for the proxy, or enough empty Distributor Markers for the distributor.^[11][27]