Powah! Upgrade Cards

Powah Upgrade Cards

Stop breaking your Powah machines just to tier them up.

Right-click a placed Powah machine with an Upgrade Card, and it becomes the next tier right where it stands. Its stored energy, items, fluids, side config, and redstone mode all stay exactly how you left them. You don't break it, re-craft it, or set it back up.

You can also swap Energy Cables in place. Hold a different tier of cable, right-click a placed one, and the new cable goes in while the old one goes back to your inventory.

Requires Powah! (Rearchitected) 6.2.0+ on NeoForge 1.21.1.

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Features

• In-place upgrades, Starter to Nitro, one tier at a time
• Nothing gets lost: energy, inventories, tanks, side config, redstone mode, facing, and waterlogging all carry over
• No item duplication and nothing spills on the ground
• Energy Cable swapping with a right-click (sneak to place cables like normal)
• Respects claims: if you can't place blocks there, you can't upgrade there
• Fully data-driven recipes, so modpacks can change them with KubeJS or a datapack
• JEI info pages for every card
• Config to turn off any machine type or cable swapping

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Supported machines

• Energy Cells
• Energizing Rods
• Furnators
• Magmators
• Thermo Generators
• Solar Panels
• Player Transmitters
• Energy Hoppers

Ender Cells, Ender Gates, Energy Dischargers, and Reactors aren't supported. Creative blocks are never touched.

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How it works

1. Make a Blank Upgrade Card

Every card starts as a Blank Upgrade Card, charged up in the Energizing Orb.

2. Craft the card for your machine

Each machine has its own line of cards, from Basic to Nitro. Furnators and Magmators share one line since their recipes are the same.

Card recipes are Powah's own machine recipes with the previous machine swapped out for the previous card. Whatever Powah charges for a tier, the card costs the same.

Hardened Upgrade Card (Energy Cell): two Basic cell cards take the place of Powah's two Basic Energy Cells.

Just like in Powah, Energy Cell cards take two of the previous card, and Solar Panel cards take three.

3. Right-click the machine

Use a card on a placed machine one tier below it. The card gets used up, and the machine is upgraded. If it's the wrong tier or the wrong machine, nothing happens, and you get a little message telling you why.

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For modpack makers

All recipes are plain JSON in data/powah_upgrade_cards/recipe/, named like hardened_upgrade_card_energy_cell. The Blank Upgrade Card is a powah:energizing recipe. Remove or replace any of them with KubeJS or a datapack.

Config file: config/powah_upgrade_cards-common.toml