Compact Machines

Building things in small places!

Compact Machines: Tiny to Maximum

Compact Machines

These are the main component of this mod and they allow you to build complicated machine contraptions and hide them within a single Compact Machine block.

Sizes

Compact Machines have different sizes, so use the size that's appropriate for what you need. These sizes range from Tiny to Maximum and can be found below:

Tiny	Small	Normal	Large	Giant	Maximum

3x3x3	5x5x5	7x7x7	9x9x9	11x11x11	13x13x13

Miniaturization Crafting

Compact Machines 4 has separated the Miniaturization Crafting mechanic into a separate mod, Compact Crafting. If you're looking for that, get the Compact Crafting mod here.

Not Yet Implemented (1.16+)

Given the 1.16 port is a full rewrite of most of the mechanics and internal code, there's a lot that still needs to be done. For an up-to-date preview, The GitHub repository has a project board where users can track work-in-progress features and any bugs that have been reported.

Tunnels are half-implemented; the functionality is partially there for item tunnels but no recipes are added yet.
You cannot currently nest machines. The shrinking device will warn about this.

Compact Machines 3 Information (pre-1.16)

Personal Shrinking Device

This little tool allow you to enter your Compact Machines. Right clicking a Compact Machine world will teleport you inside.

It also doubles as the integrated documentation. Just right click it anywhere else.

Spawn location

By default you spawn in the center of the room. You can change this by shift-right-clicking a Personal Shrinking Device at the location you want to set the spawn to.

Make sure not to obstruct the spawn location, there is currently no mechanic that automatically searches a better spawn location. And you don't want to have to break the blocks you spawn in.

Recovery

If you accidentally deleted your Compact Machines block with all your stuff still inside the Machine it can be recovered using the /compactmachines3 machines view command.

It allows browsing through all existing Compact Machines and also provides a button to give yourself a Compact Machine Block linked to the viewed machine. Be aware that this breaks already existing links, i.e. if the machine should already exist somewhere it is being disconnected from the room.

This command only works for server operators.

Technical Details

Compact Machines 3: Wiki page

Tunnels

Use these inside your Compact Machine room to create connections to the outside faces of your Compact Machine blocks. You can place them by right-clicking one of the wall blocks inside your Compact Machine with a Tunnel Tool.

By right-clicking them again you can cycle through the outside faces it is connected to - Waila/The One Probe helps with that by showing the face as well.

No face can be connected to twice, which means you can place a total of six tunnels anywhere in your Machine.

Compatibility

Tunnels are basically proxy blocks utilizing Forge Capabilities to provide a connection between the two blocks. This means that TileEntities using capabilities to talk to each other will work out of the box, this includes e.g. items, fluids and forge energy.

Other systems, usually multiblock-structures like cables and pipes, most of the time require custom implementations to work properly. This is why e.g. EnderIO conduits, Refined Storage or Applied Energistics connections do not work. This might change in the future when they either switch to a fully capability based system or when this mod adds compatibility layers itself. Both are lots of work, so don't expect this to happen.

World Gen

"Broken" Compact Machines sometimes generate in the overworld. Harvest their blocks to use for your own machines.

This can be disabled in the config files.

Miniaturization Crafting (pre-1.16)

Miniaturization Crafting

This is a crafting mechanic added to create the Compact Machine blocks and some of the utility blocks and items it provides. This can also be easily extended by pack makers for custom recipes.

Setup

You will require 4 Miniaturization Field Projectors placed in a cross shape creating a odd-sized cube structure. Right click a Field Project to let it tell you where you need to place the next projector - missing locations will be highlighted in the world. You might have to dig out the floor or place the projectors on pedestals.

Once you placed the projectors correctly and no blocks are obstructing the miniaturization field, the field should visualize.

Watch this youtube video for a basic crafting example:

You can disable the field projection by applying a redstone signal to any of the projectors.

Creating custom recipes

Recipes are added by placing .json files in the config/compactmachines3/recipes folder.

All recipes in that folder are being loaded additionally to the recipes shipped within the jar file.
If you want to disable a recipe simply create a recipe json file with the same filename and add a "disabled": true,property to the recipe object.
You can also extract all recipes in the jar using the /compactmachines3 recipe unpack-defaults command.
Use the /compactmachines3 recipe copy-shape command to copy the shape in the field of the field projector you are looking at into your clipboard.
If you need to specify custom NBT data for the catalyst item, e.g. the following line would make the catalyst required to be enchanted with "Holding III":
```
  "catalyst-nbt": "{StoredEnchantments: [{lvl:3s,id: 11s}]}",
```
The value is just the JSON encoding of the nbt tag, you can view those e.g. by enabling Advanced Tooltips (F3 + H) and running ActuallyAdditions.
The rest of the format should be intuitive enough that it does not require further explanation. If it isn't feel free to open an issue.