GregTech Calculator Board

GregTech Calculator Board (GT Calc Board)

An in-game flowchart editor and recipe rate calculator for GregTech CEu Modern and EMI, featuring real-time multiplayer team synchronization.

GregTech Calculator Board provides an in-game, node-based canvas for designing and balancing GregTech production lines. Players can place recipe cards, connect input/output ports with wires, configure machine overclocks and hardware addons, and calculate required machine ratios, power consumption, and material throughput directly inside the client without external spreadsheets or tools.

Installation & Server Compatibility

The mod is fully optional on both client and server:

• Installed on Both Client and Server: Enables real-time multiplayer team workspace synchronization, shared page tabs, and concurrent collaboration across dedicated servers.
• Client-Side Only: Players can connect to vanilla or unmodded servers and maintain full access to personal calculator boards and local blueprints.
• Server-Side Only: Server hosts can install the mod without requiring connecting clients to have the mod installed.

Features

Multiplayer Team Workspaces

• Real-Time Synchronization: Changes made on team boards are synchronized across connected teammates in real time.
• Team System Integration: Supports FTB Teams and Vanilla Scoreboard Teams to establish isolated team workspaces.
• Automatic Background Sync: Modifies and commits changes automatically after 3 seconds of inactivity and upon closing the interface or switching tabs.
• Per-Page Edit Locks: Automatically claims temporary edit locks upon node interaction to prevent simultaneous write conflicts, with live teammate presence indicators.
• Save History & Forking: Displays revision history logs and allows forking past team revisions into personal board tabs ([Personal Board]).

Favorites Dock & EMI Recipe Integration

• Side Favorites Dock Panel: A collapsible panel on the left of the board screen ([⭐ Favorites (N) ▶]) allows placing favorited items onto the canvas via single-click or drag-and-drop.
• Hierarchical Recipe Navigation & Interactive EMI Preview:
  • Hovering over a favorite displays a sub-panel listing all producing recipes (Machine / Duration / EU/t).
  • Hovering over a recipe renders a floating Native EMI preview card with full interactive widgets.
  • Supports mouse transition into the preview card for slot hover tooltips, R/U recipe/usage lookups, and single-click node spawning.
• One-Click EMI Board Addition ([+] Button): Clicking EMI's [+] (Fill Recipe) button or pressing the bound hotkey directly adds the recipe to the calculator board and switches to the board screen.

Recipe Search & Contextual Auto-Wiring

• Parametric, Boolean & Category Search: Supports tokenized queries including AND (whitespace or &), OR (|), NOT (!), mod namespaces (@mod), item/fluid tags (#tag), and machine categories ([category], [pyro], %smelting).
• Optimized Multicore Indexing: Parallel search execution indexes 170,000+ recipes without keystroke lag, prioritizing exact title and category matches.
• Category Exclusion Filter: A configurable dialog allows excluding non-processing categories (e.g. item draining) across search results and the favorites dock.
• Contextual Drag-to-Search: Dragging a wire from a port onto empty canvas opens a filtered search for consumers (from outputs) or producers (from inputs). Selecting a recipe places the node and connects the wire, with optional ratio matching when holding Shift.

Hardware Addons & Multiblock Configuration

• Addon Configuration Modal: Equips and manages heating coils, maintenance hatches, turbine rotors, Thermal Expansion augments, and machine traits.
• Deductive Multiblock Capability Matrix: Inspects recipe metadata and multiblock structures to determine machine compatibility and switch between singleblock and multiblock modes.
• Coil & Addon Stat Calculation: Extracts temperature thresholds, EBF discounts, Pyrolyse speed multipliers, LCR benefits, and Multi Smelter parallel limits according to GTCEu formulas.
• Thermal Expansion Augment Support: Supports 1-kit tier upgrades (LVEV, 6x48x parallel) with automatic replacement, along with 3-slot stacking for regular augments.

Calculation Engine & Automation

• Overclock & Tier Simulation: Calculates processing duration, EU/t draw, and throughput across all GT voltage tiers (ULV to MAX) under Standard and Perfect overclock rules.
• Shift-Connect Balancing: Holding Shift while connecting two ports computes and assigns the required machine count to match throughput.
• Recycle Deficit Accounting: Subtracts existing recycled flows entering an input port and scales the upstream producer only for the remaining requirement.
• Integer Ceiling Rounding: Rounds machine counts up to the nearest whole integer ($1, 2, 3…$) to maintain continuous supply without starvation.
• Master Anchor & Auto Ratio: Designates a target node as an anchor ([Anchor]) and propagates required machine counts across connected upstream chains.
• Direct Value Input: Click machine counts to enter values manually, select standard parallel presets (1x, 4x, 16x, 64x, 256x), or scroll the wheel over controls.

Canvas & Controls

• Infinite Canvas & LOD: Pan with right-click or middle-click drag, zoom to cursor with mouse wheel, and render large graphs efficiently using Level of Detail (LOD) mode.
• Singleplayer Pause Control: A toggle button on the toolbar ([Pause: ON] / [Pause: OFF]) controls whether opening the board pauses the singleplayer world.
• Undo & Redo: Delta-based history stack (Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y) for node movement, wiring, deletion, and property edits.
• Multi-Phase Background Loading: Displays loading phases and progress bars during background indexing without freezing UI modals.
• Hotkey Reference: Toggleable HUD (H) listing available canvas keybindings.

Compound Modules (Subgraphs)

• Modularization: Collapses groups of interconnected nodes into a single composite module card.
• Internal Flow Hiding: Encapsulates internally consumed items and fluids, exposing only true external inputs, net outputs, total machine count, and aggregate power draw.
• Unpack / Expand: Restores encapsulated machines and wiring back onto the main canvas with a single click.

Power Generation & Turbines

• Turbine Rotor Mechanics: Models GTCEu and modpack turbine rotors, computing efficiency and total power output.
• Rated Parallel Derivation: Derives optimal parallel counts based on rotor power ratings, holder limits, and voltage tiers.
• Thermal Series Dynamos: Detects Thermal Expansion dynamos as generator nodes with automatic RF-to-EU conversion.

Tabs, Clipboard & Blueprints

• Multi-Page Tabs: Organizes lines across multiple tabs with renaming and horizontal scrolling.
• Clipboard Operations: Supports selection boxes, batch movement, Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + D, and Ctrl + A.
• Blueprint Strings: Serializes graph state into compressed text strings (GTBOARD:...) for external sharing and backups.
• Power Unit Switching: Cycles display units between EU/t, EU/s, and RF/t (FE/t).

Requirements & Compatibility

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Mod Loader: Forge (47.2.0+) / NeoForge
• Dependencies / Recommended:
  • GregTech CEu Modern (1.7.0+ or Star Technology forks)
  • EMI
  • FTB Teams (Optional, for team workspace sync)
• Soft Compatibility: Thermal Series.