Logicore

So... what the hell is Logicore?

Good question.

I made it and sometimes I'm still figuring that out too.

Logicore is a tech, storage and infrastructure mod built around the idea that powerful systems should actually feel like systems.

It takes a lot of inspiration from computer hardware, networking, server infrastructure and, yes, obviously Applied Energistics 2.

AE2 inspired me a lot.

I'm not even going to pretend otherwise. 😭

Logicore originally started because I wanted to learn Java.

Somewhere along the way, apparently, I decided that storing cobblestone needed processors, storage racks, power generation, network infrastructure and enough wiring to concern a telecommunications engineer.

So here we are.

The idea is pretty simple:

Storage should feel like infrastructure.

Not magic.

You don't craft one suspiciously powerful box and forget storage exists forever.

You build the thing that makes it powerful.

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Start small.

Logicore isn't supposed to require a degree before you can store your first stack of cobblestone.

Build some processing.

Add storage.

Connect a Terminal.

Give everything power.

Done.

You now have a functioning digital storage network and approximately zero reason to build an entire datacenter around it.

You will anyway.

A tiny network can stay tiny.

But Logicore is built so that, when you decide to make it ridiculous, there is actually somewhere to go.

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The network actually has to think.

One of the biggest parts of Logicore is its processing system.

Your network isn't just one magical controller that knows everything instantly.

It has actual computational hardware.

LPUs are your Cores.

Thread Modules give those Cores more parallel processing capacity.

And Clock Speed determines how quickly Requests can be completed.

Machines create Jobs.

Jobs create Requests.

Your processing hardware deals with them.

For a small network, you barely need to care.

For a giant network...

well.

That's where the questionable decisions begin.

You can build large physical processing structures, branch Threads from your LPUs and expand the amount of work your network can deal with at once.

You absolutely do not need hundreds of Threads.

That has never stopped anyone.

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Storage is hardware too.

Logicore storage isn't supposed to feel infinite.

You use actual storage hardware, put it inside racks and expand when you actually need more capacity.

The Rack isn't just decoration either.

Your drives are physically installed into it because apparently I wasn't satisfied until Minecraft storage started looking vaguely like server hardware.

And no, the goal isn't to eventually give you a single block that stores the entire known universe.

If you want more storage, build more storage.

Welcome to infrastructure.

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You can actually see stuff happening.

Logicore tries very hard not to make the network feel like a bunch of invisible numbers.

Import something.

Export something.

Use the network.

Data moves.

Hardware reacts.

The network should feel alive instead of being a chest GUI connected to several expensive blocks for emotional support.

There are Data Pulses moving through operations, animated processing hardware, physical network connections and machines that are meant to look like they belong together.

If I'm going to make you build infrastructure, I at least want the infrastructure to look cool.

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Cables.

There are cables.

Of course there are cables.

Logicore's network uses Network Fiber to physically connect its hardware.

No twenty-seven cable tiers.

No spreadsheet comparing transfer rates.

It's infrastructure.

If two parts of your network need to talk to each other, they need to actually be connected.

The good news is that this looks very cool.

The bad news is that at some point you will spend twenty minutes rerouting a cable because one corner annoyed you.

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Power is not optional.

Processors need power.

Storage infrastructure needs power.

Machines need power.

Your network does not run on friendship.

Build generation, connect it to the system and make sure the network can actually support what you've built.

A tiny setup is easy.

A giant room full of hardware is slightly less easy.

Which is sort of the point.

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Simple if you want. Stupid if you want.

This is probably the most important part of Logicore.

I don't want complexity to be the entry requirement.

I want complexity to be something you grow into.

You should be able to make a small network, understand it in five minutes and happily use it.

But if you're the kind of person who looks at a perfectly functional storage room and thinks:

"I could optimize this."

then congratulations.

You have made a terrible mistake.

Because now you're adding more storage.

Then more processing.

Then more power.

Then the room is too small.

Then you move the Rack.

Then the cable doesn't line up.

Then you rebuild the wall.

Then somehow your starter base has a server facility underneath it.

This is normal.

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Why does Logicore exist?

Because I really didn't want progression to become:

bigger storage block
even bigger storage block
absurd storage block
infinite storage block
never think about infrastructure again

I want the final network to be powerful because you built something powerful.

Not because one recipe suddenly gave a block the storage capacity of Google.

Your network should tell a story just by looking at it.

You should be able to see where the storage is.

See where the processing is.

See how everything connects.

See how far the whole thing has grown since you placed the first few blocks.

You don't unlock a datacenter.

You accidentally build one.

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Symptoms of playing Logicore may include:

• Calling a Minecraft room a datacenter with complete seriousness.
• Building more storage because "I'll definitely need it later."
• Spending longer routing cables than building your actual house.
• Expanding a network that already worked perfectly fine.
• Looking at an empty wall and seeing rack space.
• Adding more Threads despite absolutely not needing more Threads.
• Saying "one more upgrade" and disappearing for two hours.
• Becoming emotionally attached to infrastructure.
• Learning something about computers while attempting to store rotten flesh.
• Opening the Terminal, staring at your network for five seconds and thinking "yeah, that's sick."

If any of this sounds appealing...

Perfect.

You're probably exactly the kind of idiot I made this mod for.

Have fun.

And maybe don't unplug everything halfway through an operation.

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Same same, but different.

Logicore takes inspiration from other tech and storage mods, but it isn't trying to become a reskin of them.

It has its own network architecture, its own processing model, its own storage philosophy and a frankly unreasonable amount of attention being spent on making server racks look cool.

Some systems are simple.

Some go surprisingly deep.

And a lot of this mod exists because I looked at something that already worked and thought:

"Yeah, but what if I made this unnecessarily physical?"

That basically explains the entire project.

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Just to avoid confusion

Logicore has absolutely nothing to do with LogiCycles.

Different mod, different developer, different code, different mechanics, different direction.

There is no affiliation or connection between the two projects the similar name is just a coincidence.

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Third-Party Texture Credits

Logicore contains adapted or reused assets from third-party projects:

• Applied Energistics 2 — The LPU light/overlay artwork contains adapted AE2 texture work, cropped and adjusted for Logicore. AE2 texture/model assets are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

• Create: Power Grid — The Copper Wire and Platinum Wire textures are based on assets from Create: Power Grid and have been adapted for Logicore. The project is distributed under the Apache License 2.0:
  https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Logicore is not affiliated with or endorsed by Applied Energistics 2 or Create: Power Grid.