SFM-Flow

6-28-2026

[Added]

• Added a new slot layout configuration screen, accessible by shift-clicking any side of the 3D block preview, allowing you to toggle exactly which inventory slots are active for automated transfers.

• Added full slot-mapping support for worldly containers (such as Furnaces, Brewing Stands, and Smelters) to respect face-locked slot layouts.

• Added live item previews inside slot layout screens to show which items currently reside in each slot of a connected container.

• Added an upgraded in-world highlight system that renders the precise 3D block shape of targeted chests and machines instead of generic wireframe boxes.

• Added a fully interactive, draggable 3D block preview component to the Item Input and Output settings screens.

[Changed]

• Rebuilt the item filter slots with a custom texture design showing distinct empty and filled visual states.

• Optimized screen drawing layers to prevent overlay menus and dropdowns from clipping or rendering behind the 3D block preview.

• Rebuilt the Item Input and Item Output configuration panels into modular, responsive layout elements to improve readability.

• Integrated public API interfaces (IFilterable, IInventoryTarget, ISideConfigurable) allowing third-party addon developers to reuse standard search, filter, and side configuration widgets.

[Fixed]

• Fixed an issue where items held on the cursor would be lost when clicking "Save & Close" inside configuration screens; held items are now safely returned to your inventory.

• Consolidated internal interface layouts to improve overall user interface stability and menu loading times.

• Fixed mouse dragging and scroll conflicts when adjusting settings inside the node configuration overlays.

6-27-2026

[Added]

• In-World Container Outlines: Added an "In-World Highlight" option inside the Item Transfer settings panel. Toggling this checkbox places a glowing golden border around the selected inventory block in the game world, visible through solid walls.

• Highlight Clear Hotkey & Command: Pressing H (by default) or typing /sfmflow highlight clear instantly clears all targeted highlights in the world.

• Sided Capabilities Support: Item transfers now respect side-specific capabilities (e.g., extracting from the top slot of a furnace or depositing into its side).

• Player Inventory Graphic Backing: Added a beveled dark grey background card sheet at the bottom of the screen to neatly house the player's inventory and hotbar slots.

[Changed]

• Precise Route Planning: Upgraded the off-thread logic simulator to evaluates slots on a per-face basis rather than ignoring side-restricted inventory access.

• Precise Interval Tick Scheduling: Network planning runs are now strictly dispatched per-node only when their corresponding timer interval has elapsed, rather than on a flat global interval.

• Enhanced Visual Sorting: Connection wires are now drawn directly on the background canvas, placing them behind interactive card bodies to prevent overlaps with buttons and terminals.

• Vanilla Double-Chest Compatibility: Upgraded capability scanners to search with vertical side-contexts, enabling standard double-chests and vanilla containers to resolve properly.

• Expanded Interface Layout: Increased the Manager console interface height from 256px to 352px to neatly integrate the variables drawers.

• Centered Player Inventory: Re-aligned the player inventory and hotbar slots inside the Manager block screen to sit centrally within the new bottom panel layout, eliminating overlapping lists.

• Synchronized Task Submissions: Layout planning tasks are now throttled to dispatch every 10 ticks (twice a second) to balance execution responsiveness and CPU performance.

• Refined inventory scanning with a double-pass safety check to defensively skip sleeping nodes and unloaded chunk regions before processing automated routes.

• Network cable layouts are now saved directly in world save data as a flat array. This allows large cable networks to load instantly without requiring full rediscovery sweeps when the world boots up.

• Cable block placements and unlinking are now optimized using an incremental graph update model. Placing or breaking network cables no longer triggers a full network rescan, eliminating tick-lag and server freezes on large automated setups.

• Rebuilt the backend network scanning engine with primitive-level memory structures, significantly reducing server CPU overhead when mapping complex factory networks.

[Fixed]

• Overlay Viewport Clipping: Fixed issues where opening settings overlays over 256px in height cropped or hid panel elements by dynamically scaling the canvas viewport.

• Hot Reload Safety: Fixed potential thread-pool hangs on world reloads by lazily re-initializing the asynchronous daemon executor pool.

• Item Mutation Isolation: Planned transfer frames now copy item stacks before processing, isolating multithreaded simulations from in-flight inventory changes.

• Memory Leak Protection: Stale network cable registries are now cleanly purged upon network path recalculations.

• Connection ID Indexing: Fixed an internal coordinate reference bug where scanned target blocks returned a duplicate ID value of 0, resolving selection mapping issues.

• Added an automatic first-tick sanity check on world load to clear out any stale or broken cable references from the saved network cache.