MineColoniesXCreateMod

MineColoniesXCreateMod

Most Create bridges feed your colony. This one runs both ways: your factory

supplies the colony, and your colony supplies the factory.

The Create Shop is the transfer station between two transport systems.

Couriers move goods inside the colony, your own Create logistics moves them

outside it. Nothing teleports, and you lay the belts, chains and frogports

yourself, exactly as you would for any other Create setup.

Built on the public APIs of both mods. No mixins.

Before you install

This is early and experimental. Expect updates, reworks, and the occasional

breakage.

• Back up your world before installing or updating.

• Not recommended for important long-term saves yet.

• Removing the mod from an active world can break it. Run

/thesettlerxcreate prepare_uninstall first (since 0.0.12).

• Debug logging is **on by default** so request and delivery flows can be

traced during testing. Switch it off in

config/thesettler_x_create-common.toml with debugLogging = false once

you are done validating.

Why it exists

Tired of rebuilding hopper and postbox setups after every hut upgrade, or

reconnecting your stock network by hand whenever something moves? That is the

busywork this mod takes over.

Colony to factory

**Colony Gauge and Colony Packager** *(since 0.3.0, hut level 2+)*

A matched pair that requests items from your colony the way a stock gauge

requests them from a stock network. Place the Colony Packager on whatever

container you want kept filled, attach a Colony Gauge to that packager, then

set an item and a target amount.

From there it runs on the two systems in turn. The colony pulls the items

from your Warehouse and a courier carries them to the shop. The shop packages

them and addresses the package to your target. The package then travels your

Create network, over whatever belts, chains and frogports you have built, the

same way any other addressed package does.

A gauge can also ask for things no warehouse has *(since 0.6.0)*. If someone

in the colony knows the recipe, the request goes to your crafters and you get

what they make. If there is no stock and nobody who can make it, the shop

skips the request instead of leaving it in your list.

The gauge follows Create's Factory Panel with four slots per panel and a

satisfied state, and it reads the real contents of the target container, so

it stays accurate even if you add or remove items by hand afterwards.

**Output Block** *(packaging mode since 0.2.3)*

The packager output for fulfilled requests. From level 2 the shop no longer

needs an external packager setup, and the block was taken out of the

schematic, so the building no longer carries that add-on structure on its

side.

Factory to colony

The same route in reverse. Colonist requests keep their normal MineColonies

lifecycle from start to finish; the Create Shop simply registers as another

valid supply source. When something is requested that the colony cannot

cover, the shop orders it from your stock network. Your Create logistics

delivers the packages to the shop's address, and from there a courier carries

them the last stretch to whoever asked. Priorities, the request list and your

couriers all behave exactly as before.

Set a minimum stock on your warehouse and the same route keeps it topped up,

one stack at a time, for as long as the items exist on the network.

What the colony may take

A shop will empty your stock network if you let it. Two tabs in the hut

window set how much of it the colony can take.

**Blocked for colony** *(since 0.6.0)*

A list per shop of what the colony can take from your stock network. Allowed

means it can take that item down to the last one. Forbidden means it takes

none, no matter who asks. Use it for the things your factory runs on, like

the andesite alloy that feeds your assembly line.

**Network minimum** *(since 0.6.0)*

The milder version. Set an amount for an item and that much stays in the

network for the shop, and the colony takes only what is above it. An item

without a minimum can be taken down to the last one. Amounts take shorthand,

so 1.5k is 1500, and the list writes 1000 as 1k. Set 0 to remove the minimum

again.

Everything else

**Network Link Tuner**

Connects or reconnects the hut to a Create stock network. Right-click a Stock

Ticker or Stock Checker to store its network, then right-click the hut block

to apply it. Handy after an upgrade, or when the shop moves.

**It tells you when it is stuck**

If deliveries back up because the racks are full, the shopkeeper says so and

offers the two ways out: upgrade the hut for more rack space, or assign more

couriers. If a package never arrives, you get a prompt to reorder or cancel

instead of hunting for a wedged task.

**Builders handle Create blocks they used to skip** *(since 0.3.2)*

Belts get built as the multi-block structures they are, and encased shafts

and cogwheels in andesite and brass, including large cogwheels, are placed

from the right base item.

Perma Requests are disabled for the time being. The gauge system above

replaces them.

Current state

The request lifecycle was reworked across 0.4 to 0.6. Deliveries of one

request now leave the hut together instead of one at a time, and items are

reserved when they arrive rather than when a courier turns up. Stock that

nobody claimed is moved on after five minutes.

Edge cases can turn up in heavily modded packs, dedicated server support is

coming along, and broader real-world testing is still ongoing.

Target versions

• Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge

• MineColonies 1.1.1264 or newer

• Structurize 1.0.807 or newer

• Create 1.21.1-6.0.10 or newer

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