The Engineer's Toolkit

The Engineer's Toolkit

Copy machine and pipe settings, save your favourite configurations, and reuse them across your builds.

The Configuration Gadget helps you set up supported machines, factories, pipes and conduits without repeating every setting by hand. Keep up to five named presets and switch between them in game.

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge

Current version: 1.2.1 Release. Now available to download. Version 1.1.0 remains listed as the earlier public alpha.

What it does

• Copies supported machine controls, side settings, filters and priorities.
• Saves five configurations with names you choose.
• Adapts supported pipe settings to the destination connection, including extraction on a different side.
• Installs supported upgrades, capacitors, filters and cards using items from your inventory. The 1.2.0 release can also take supported items from a linked AE2 ME network when you are in wireless range.
• Copies supported AE2 patterns using blank patterns from your inventory.
• Applies the settings it can when you are missing a required item.
• Returns replaced items to your inventory, dropping them at your feet if your inventory is full.
• Adds machine controls for 14 Industrial Foregoing machines, the Souls Soul Laser Base and selected MIFA addons.
• Uses the linked AE2 Wireless Access Point range, standard boosters and supported AEInfinityBooster cards. Connected Quantum Network Bridges can reach a local Wireless Access Point in another dimension.
• Includes a searchable in-game guide with a configurable key, plus short and detailed gadget tooltips in inventories and JEI.

The gadget copies configuration. Stored resources, energy, ownership and running crafting jobs stay with their original machines.

How to use it

Action	Result
Shift + right-click a supported block	Copy its settings into the selected preset
Right-click a compatible block	Paste the selected settings
Right-click empty air	Open the preset menu
Shift + right-click empty air	Clear the selected preset's stored settings

Choose a preset in the menu and give it a name to help you remember its purpose. Clearing stored settings keeps the preset's custom name.

For pipes and AE2 parts, aim at the connection or part you want to configure.

Supported integrations

The integrations below are optional. Supported settings depend on the device and mod version.

Mod	Coverage	Development version checked
Mekanism	Machine settings, factory sorting, upgrades and pipe/cable connections	10.7.19.85
Mekanism Extras	Higher-tier factories, upgrades and pipes/cables	1.4.1
Applied Energistics 2	Supported parts and devices, filters, priorities, cards and pattern copying	19.2.17
Pipez	Connections, filters and upgrades	1.2.31
Industrial Foregoing	Machine controls, filters and supported addons	3.6.38 / Souls 1.10.4 / MIFA 2.1.0
Ender IO	Machine settings and capacitors, plus conduit connections and filters	8.2.12-beta

Selected AE2 add-on devices are also supported in these reviewed versions:

• ExtendedAE 2.2.36, AdvancedAE 1.6.12 and MEGA Cells 4.11.0.
• ME Requester 1.5.0 and Applied Mekanistics 1.6.3.
• Applied Flux 2.1.5 and Applied Pneumatics 1.0.9.
• AppliedE 1.0.8-beta and Applied Soul 2.1.0-hotfix.

Coverage varies by device. Network pairing, wireless bindings, storage-cell contents and active crafting work remain local to each device. Some integrations are restricted to the reviewed versions above.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1.
• NeoForge 21.1.249 or later within the Minecraft 1.21.1 series. Version 1.2.0 requires 21.1.252 or later.
• The relevant supported mods for the machines or pipes you want to configure.

Report a bug

Use this project's Issues tab and check whether the problem has already been reported.

Please include what happened, what you expected, steps to reproduce it, and the versions of The Engineer's Toolkit, Minecraft, NeoForge and affected mods. Mention whether you are playing singleplayer or on a server, and include your modpack's name and version if applicable.

Screenshots and relevant logs help. For a crash, attach the matching crash report and logs/latest.log if available. Reports are public, so check attachments for private details before posting.

For inventory-related problems, mention which upgrades, capacitors, filters, cards or blank patterns you had available. For pipe problems, show how the pipes connect to the machines.

You can still submit a report if you cannot provide every detail.

For mod authors

The Engineer's Toolkit provides a compatibility API and data definitions so other mods can add support for their own configurable blocks. Additional integrations can also be developed within the toolkit.

Developer download

Get the Developer Kit for Toolkit 1.1.0, also listed under Additional Files on the matching mod download.

It contains the integration guide, JSON definition format, API v1 source reference and HTML documentation, compatibility notes, and a working example with machine and pipe adapters. The independent example code is MIT-licensed so you can copy and adapt it for your own mod. The main Toolkit mod remains All Rights Reserved.

The API is already included in the normal mod JAR. Developers should extract the ZIP and start with README.md; players only need the mod JAR. Do not put the developer ZIP or API source attachment in your mods folder.

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