Logistics: Automation

0.8.8 (2026-09-09)

Changed

• energy: stop idle engines resaving their chunks every tick (ac93a07)
• fluids: stop tank columns rewriting cells that did not change (ac93a07)
• routing: make the MkIII Extractor a real upgrade (81f50b2)
• routing: rank specific Item Sinks above Polymorphic (2bf5648)
• routing: serve pipe shapes from the connection cache (b7f04d1)

Removed

• crafting: drop the classic crafting resource pack (d58c93c), closes #960

Fixed

• automation: let a stalled Fabricator order be cancelled (51931cd)
• automation: stop a new quarry inheriting the old one's arm position (042844a)
• automation: stop machines jamming on items they cannot use (4754ea8)
• automation: stop the Fabricator eating a failed craft (aa8195c)
• ci: stop the release pipeline publishing broken releases (1ff390b)
• core: give the Seed Oil Bucket its missing model and texture (#904) (009c5a8)
• core: reject config values that silently brick a machine (db50398)
• core: survive a malformed config file at startup (d5c2a36)
• crafting: keep the sourceable remainder when a request is replanned (83ac2e9)
• crafting: order only what was requested from a crafting batch (83ac2e9)
• energy: face a newly placed engine at a full machine on NeoForge (77cd947), closes #977 #989
• energy: give engine and battery models their missing particle texture (#909) (f379bcb)
• energy: hold the battery's per-side push to its own I/O ceiling (db50398), closes #992 #982 #995 #1000
• energy: stop a battery starving its own cable network (77cd947)
• energy: stop a legal steam config making RF free (db50398)
• energy: stop a new engine resuming the old one's piston stroke (042844a), closes #976 #988
• energy: stop cables exceeding their throughput cap (1242ec3)
• energy: stop cables voiding power into slow machines (351ef35)
• energy: stop duplicating and voiding energy on Fabric (fbdbd2a)
• energy: stop the Magmatic Engine locking itself out of ignition (db50398)
• neoforge: make peat, bitumen and tar burn again (a706a27)
• pipes: re-request deliveries that time out in transit (6c06951)
• pump: keep long intake tubes visible off screen (aa4881b)
• pump: stop the intake tube descending through waterlogged blocks (04fc53e), closes #968 #969
• quarry: keep marker beams visible off screen (aa4881b), closes #940
• quarry: keep the frame and laser visible off screen (aa4881b)
• quarry: let players break abandoned frames in survival (5c8f0bb)
• quarry: mine waterlogged blocks instead of skipping them (04fc53e)
• quarry: remove the unintended duplicate recipe (98dec57)
• quarry: stop a zero arm speed freezing the quarry forever (654f678)
• quarry: stop frame blocks vanishing without warning (5c8f0bb)
• quarry: stop vacuuming loose items off the ground (25bb95f), closes #973
• routing: apply one interaction range to every pipe menu (73ad39f), closes #937 #942
• routing: cancel the order behind a job that has finished (83ac2e9), closes #933 #944 #947
• routing: close module menus when the pipe is broken (73ad39f)
• routing: detach chassis modules shift-clicked out (7e19c2a)
• routing: fall through to the next provider when one is fully reserved (fa05a41), closes #928 #938 #939
• routing: keep chassis sinks working after a network split (43870f6)
• routing: make tied sink priorities pick a stable destination (2bf5648)
• routing: release only the delivered part of a shipment (fa05a41)
• routing: render the right pipe arm after a neighbour changes (b7f04d1)
• routing: stop a bad button id crashing the server (d482da0)
• routing: stop broadcasting requester contents to every player (d165385)
• routing: stop failed deliveries shrinking a provider's stock (fa05a41)
• routing: stop Providers destroying items on an unpowered network (7f11ac2)
• routing: stop Supplier slots editing the wrong entry (6343bc8)
• routing: stop Suppliers forgetting their stock target (a39a33c)
• routing: stop the MkIII Extractor pulling less than the MkII (81f50b2)
• routing: stop the Provider MkII shipping the wrong item to the next order (3ce9e6e)
• transport: apply config reloads to stone and gold pipes (c0c787c)
• transport: stop losing items on a partial pipe handoff (c80697e)
• ui: close machine screens when the machine is gone (3fc4cf1)
• ui: show byproduct guaranteed count in JEI (b158840)
• ui: stop listing every automation recipe twice in JEI (d7a14ad)