/Autocrafters

This Starbound mod adds an autocrafter object that, as the name suggests, autocraft items with the adjacent crafting station.

Primary LanguageLuaBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Autocrafters

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Player Info

Subscribe to the mod on the Starbound workshop: Steam Workshop Page


This mod is an add-on to Automation Aides and adds a device that can automatically craft items from adjacent crafting stations. It also adds a device for stacking foods. Both devices are crafted within the wiring station.

Autorafters

This can be upgraded to a refridgerated version. The autocrafter, as the name suggests, crafts items from recipes provided by the adjacent crafting station. The blue and orange lights on the autocrafter need to be pointing towards the station when placing. Its output node will provide a signal once it detects a valid station. To tell it which item to craft, open up its UI and put an item in the bottom left slot (the item is not consumed) or click the 'money' button next to it (for recipes with money/pixels as its output, like with the refinery). Put the ingredients into the 12 right slots (or automatically feed it with an item transference device) and it will attempt to craft the item, provided the crafting station next to it has a recipe for the item. The output slot is where your resulting items will land, so either you take them out manually or extract them with an aforementioned item transference device connected to this devices output node. Note: this will pause crafting if either the station gets removed, it receives a signal on its first input node or the output slot is filled/occupied.

Food Stackers

This device stacks food in a refridgerated storage next to it. Like with the autocrafter, the blue and orange lights on the machine need to be pointing towards it. Please note that this will NOT WORK if you don't have another mod like "Food Stack", which allows for stacking food. Also this acts as an item bridge, so you can connect its second input node and/or its output node to an item network to insert/extract items from the adjacent storage.

Additional Infos

Both devices in this mod can be turned on/off by connecting their first input node to a signal (like a switch, console, etc.)

This mod requires "Automation Aides"
Automation Aides Workshop Page

For the Food Stacker to function, it is required to install a food stacking mod like "Food Stack"
Food Stack Workshop Page

Contributor Info

For Developers

To contribute to this project via code, you will need

  • to know how to code with Lua,
  • to know how to mod with Starbound1,
  • a text editor/IDE of your choosing that can handle Lua projects. I recommend VS Code.

Fork2 this repo. Now make your changes and make a pull request (PR)3. I will review your PR and merge it, if there's no issues with the PR.

Footnotes

  1. a beginners guide can be found here: https://starbounder.org/Modding:Modding_Basics

  2. How to fork a repo: https://docs.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-and-collaborating-using-github-desktop/adding-and-cloning-repositories/cloning-and-forking-repositories-from-github-desktop

  3. How to create a pull request: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork