TubeStuff

This is a smallish mod that adds some useful blocks. The name TubeStuff is no longer temporary :P

The mod doesn't require RedPower or BuildCraft, but it's much more useful with them. Also, there's no recipe for the buffer if you have neither of them.

Buffer

This block allows you to transfer items between pipes and tubes easily. It also combines stacks of items together to reduce lag.

You can fill it with items with pipes or tubes, or even manually, just like a chest.

If you put a wooden pipe, gold pipe, or basic logistics pipe next to the buffer, it will output one stack of items into the pipe every few seconds (depending on the number of empty slots - 5 seconds when empty, 0.5 seconds when full).

If you put a filter next to it, with the input side facing the buffer, it will output a redstone signal to pulse the filter at the same rate it sends items into pipes.

Automatic Crafting Table MkII

When you right click this you will see four main area. At the top, the input (9x5). At the bottom, your inventory. At the left, a 3x3 recipe area, and a single slot at the right which is the output. Here's how to use it:

• Set the recipe in the recipe area. Nothing will appear in the output slot, that's normal.
• Put items into the input area by connecting tubes (or pipes) to any side. Regulators may be useful here. Each side (and the bottom) has its own row of the input area.
• Place a filter or transposer above the crafting table facing down. Apply a redstone signal to this to extract the crafted item. Another will be crafted almost instantly, if the ingredients are available.
• If the recipe produces a container item, such as buckets (when water buckets are used in the recipe), they will go to the last, red-shaded row of the input area. They can be extracted from the bottom. Note that if this is full, container items will be destroyed!

New feature not shown in the above screenshot: There is a button that toggles between 1 and 64. When it's set to 1 (the default), no items will be crafted unless the output slot is empty. When it's set to 64, items will be crafted until the output slot is full.

They can also be rotated with a RP2 screwdriver, Buildcraft-compatible wrench (including Crescent Hammers and OmniWrenches), IC2 wrench or stone hoe.

The "C" button (not shown in the screenshot) clears the recipe.

The "OD" button (not shown in the screenshot) is for ore-dictionary support. After entering a recipe that uses the ore dictionary - for example, 9 copper ingots - click the OD button, and the ingots will start flashing between all the available types of copper ingots. In this mode you can make copper blocks from any 9 copper ingots, even if they aren't all of the same type. If you edit the recipe it will stop flashing.

If you have NEI, you can click the "?" button next to a recipe while the ACT2 GUI is open to select that recipe.

Black Hole Chest

It's a chest that holds infinite items. Simple, really.

Note that you can't navigate to pages that don't exist. In particular, you can't go to a new blank page unless the previous page is full. Also, when it unloads, it will compact its contents so there are no empty slots until the end.

Disabled by default due to potential OPness - see the config to enable. Even if not enabled in the config, it can be spawned by /give, creative mode, TMI or NEI.

If these chests lag too much in fancy mode, you can force them to use the fast mode graphics in the client's config (tubestuff.enableBHCAnim=false). You can also disable the black particles (tubestuff.enableBHCParticles=false). (Note: If you get lots of fast-moving white/grey particles, that's a graphical glitch where they aren't clipped to the inside of the chest; see below)

Incinerator

Connects to pipes or tubes, and permanently destroys any items that enter it - like a lava pit, but easier to use and with no risk of spontaneous combustion.

Duplicator

This acts like a chest that always has a certain item in it. You can pull an infinite amount of this item out of the chest with wooden pipes or transposers/filters/etc, a certain number at a time.

There is no way to legitimately get this block, and only ops can place it in SMP, for obvious reasons. Intended for things like admin-built dungeons where you want to never run out of reward items.

Right click to open the GUI (again, you must be an op except in singleplayer) and put in the item you want to spawn. The number of items in the GUI is the maximum number of items that will be spawned at a time (eg with one pulse of a filter). Remember wooden pipes and transposers will still only spawn one item at a time.

Retrievulator

This block is the "automated retriever robot" that BrickedKeyboard suggested. World texture is temporary. Any texture pack makers want to give me a better one? I really have no idea what this machine should look like...

The side with the bigger hole is the input. It should be touching the output side of a retriever from RedPower. If it's touching any other block, or nothing, it won't do anything. The side with the smaller hole is the output. It should be touching any inventory, such as a chest or ACT2.

You can use a filter instead of a retriever, which usually isn't very useful.

Make sure your retriever is in "non-slider" mode!