Tubes!

Tubes aims to provide the best item transport and sorting solution using the awesome ForgeMultipart API
These tubes work somewhat like the pneumatic tubes in RedPower, but there are many more types of tubes for all sorts of uses.

Features

• Item Transport:

  • Items in tubes seek the shortest path to an inventory and items cannot be accidentally dropped!

• Tube Coloring:

  • Tubes can be colored by clicking them with dyes Different colored tubes wont connect to each other Colors can be cleared by clicking on them with a water container (eg. water bucket, water bottle)

• Ghost item filters:

  • Don't waste your items in filters, all filter slots in tubes use ghost items. Left click to decrease, Right click to increase, hold shift to increase/decrease by 10

• NEI Drag and Drop Integration:

  • If you have NEI installed, you can drag from the items list into a filter slot to set its even when in recipe mode!

Requirements

ForgeMultipart and CodeChickenCore

Getting Started

To start making tubes, you are going to need plastic. The most basic way to get plastic is as follows:

First combine sand, clay, and coal/charcoal to get pellets

Smelt the plastic pellets to get plastic sheets

Finally combine 2 plastic and 1 glass like above to get 8 tubes

If you want more plastic pellets, you can use this method to produce 32 tubes worth of plastic at a time:

Smelt a bucket of milk to get milk curd.

Combine that milk curd with coal/charcoal, gunpowder, and 1 bucket's worth of water (can use forestry cans and other containers like it) to get 8 plastic pellets.

BuildCraft Users:

You can refine fuel into liquid plastic using the refinery. You get 1 bucket of liquid plastic for 1 bucket of fuel

Combine a bucket of liquid plastic with coal/charcoal to get 8 plastic pellets

MineFactoryReloaded Users:

You can use MFR plastic sheets anywhere Tubes plastic is used.

Recipes

• Restriction Tube:

  • Adds 5000 to the path length Can be colored

• Ejection Tube:

  • Has a forced open direction. Items will be ejected out of the open side. Can be colored. Can be rotated with a BuildCraft compatible wrench

• Filter Tube:

  • Can precisely control what items can enter it

• Compressor Tube:

  • Compresses items that pass through it to specific stack sizes. Useful for reducing lag.

• Extraction tube:

  • Pulls items out of inventories at a rate of 1 stack per 10 ticks Can be disabled by applying a redstone signal Can be colored. Can be rotated with a BuildCraft compatible wrench

• Requesting tube:

  • A combination of an extraction tube and filter tube, can pull from inventories both adjacent, and remote It will also pull the exact amount of an item specified in its filter. Can be rotated with a BuildCraft compatible wrench

• Routing tube:

  • This tube allows you to choose what destination an item will have. When deciding the path for an item to take, the shortest valid path will still be chosen.

• Coloring tube:

  • This tube allows you to apply a color to items passing through it Any dye can be used in place of the above dyes

• Valve Tube:

  • This tube acts as a one way valve, any items that leave it cannot re-enter it. It also acts as an overflow destination should items not have anywhere to go. A redstone signal will open the valve making it act as a normal tube

• Block of Plastic:

  • A decorative block made of plastic

• Redstone Circuit:

  • An item used by the filter tube recipe

• Tube Cap:

  • A tube cap allows you to block connections between tubes and other tubes/blocks without needing colors, or covers You can use any saw

Installation

1. Install Forge NOT ModLoader
2. Place the jar for this mod, in the mods folder

Mod Spotlights

Tubes 1.1.3 Spotlight thanks to TheBriskCinema (TheLeachHOG)

Tubes 1.1.2 Spotlight thanks to ImN00ob

Tubes 1.0.5 thanks to WTFG33ks

Tubes 1.0.1 thanks to ImN00ob

Mod Packs

Permission is given for anyone to include this in a mod pack (public or private).

Source Code

If you wish to see how its done, head over to GitHub where the source code is available.

Disclaimer: Though its very unlikely that anything will happen, I take no responsibility for any damage that occurs to your worlds.