Machine Control Panel

Machine Control Panel

Do you have many artisan machine related mods with overlapping machine rules? Or a number of different machines in the same automate group that is sending items into the wrong machine? This mod adds way to control which machine rules are active and what items are allowed in the machine.

Interface

To open the machine control panel, press Q (rebindable) when close to a machine.

You can also open a machine selection menu with LeftCtrl+Q (rebindable).

Rules

This page displays machine rules on a particular artisan machine, ordered from top to bottom, left to right.

A machine rule is disabled by unchecking the box. Rules are applied before the machine starts processing, disabling a rule or input will not interrupt any ongoing processes.

Additional items required for a machine (i.e. fuel) are displayed with a "bolt" icon.

Some rules may accept or produce a large number of items, these are represented with a note icon, and you can left click on them to see the full set of things.

Byproducts (EMC) can be viewed in a similar way, using right click.

Inputs

This page displays all items that can be put into a particular artisan machine.

An input item is disabled by clicking on the item such that it becomes blacked out, and then pressing the save button.

You can also prevent certain quality items from being used with the 4 quality icons at the top, this is general and not per input item.

What are Machine Rules?

Artisan machines, as of 1. 6, operate on a priority list of rules dictating the outputs of a machine. The most common category of rules are those which trigger when player places an item into the machine. Each item is checked against rule from first to last, and the first matching rule accepts the input item and determine what the output item will be.

Some rules take a number of different items, based on conditions or context tags. These are displayed as semi-transparent item with a "note" icon. The tooltip provides more info about their conditions, and clicking the icon displays all matched items in a grid. Advanced conditions are marked with a exclamation mark, and displayed in the tooltip. Some rules have hard to determine output items, in those cases a question mark icon is displayed instead. Question mark icon is also the placeholder for rules that don't accept input items.

Besides the item based rules, this mod also let you turn off rules that produce without need for input, such as Coffee Maker. Disabling this type of rule may cause placed machines to not work even after enabling the rule again, until the machine in question is removed and placed again.

Turning off a rule with this mod does not always prevent the machine from accepting an input