Suggestion: Exalted Crafter inventory automation
Hjaldar opened this issue ยท 3 comments
Background: I use the wooden exalted crafter (wooden chest) as my hotkey-enabled mobile crafting solution of choice. I keep the internal inventory manually filled with stacks of my most commonly used crafting materials so I can craft all sorts of items wherever I am. I didn't use the exalted crafter (ender chest) until recently because it provides no practical improvement over the wooden exalted crafter without some method of keeping the exalted crafter stocked with materials.
Mods which allow automation, i.e. piping items in and out, of the vanilla ender chest (and hence the exalted crafter) are few and far between. I know of Player Proxies (for 1.7.10) and ModularUtilities (for 1.9.4 and 1.10.2). I recently added ModularUtilities to my custom 1.10.2 packs and have been enjoying using its Ender Crate to keep my exalted crafter stocked with all my mobile crafting ingredient needs. The only reasonably well-known 1.10.2 public modpack I could find with both Evilcraft and ModularUtilities is Elucent's Custom Pack: Reborn.
Suggestion: Provide a method within Evilcraft for automating input/output to the exalted crafter.
Option 1: Provide a block within Evilcraft that is similar to ModularUtilities' Ender Crate, allowing automation to interact with the vanilla ender chest. It could, optionally, require a small amount of blood per item moved.
Option 2: Create an Entangled Chest, similar to the Entangled Chalice, but for items. One chest could be placed in the world for automation and the other chest used in the (entangled?) exalted crafter recipe instead of a vanilla ender chest.
EDIT: formatting
Good ideas! I've been tinkering with the idea of an Entangled Chest for a while now as well. I'll definitely implement something like this, the big question is just when...
Great to hear. I look forward to seeing what you come up with when you get some time.