Tubes Reloaded

Structures

Tubes fully support structure pieces and can be used in rotated and mirrored structure pieces (even when connected via tubing pliers).

Crafting Recipe for Tubes

This is how you get tubes

Crafting Recipe for Shunts

Shunts are an item-handling block that can accept any item and instantly shunt those items to their output side. Shunts do not count as tubes for tube-network-routing purposes. Shunts cannot shunt items into shunts.

Crafting Recipe for Loaders

Right-click the Loader with an Itemstack to load the itemstack into whatever inventory block the Loader is facing (or to eject the stack if not facing anything). The Loader cannot accept items in any other manner.

Crafting Recipe for Redstone Tubes

Redstone Tubes emit a full redstone signal while items are inside them and emit no signal while items aren't inside them

Crafting Recipe for Extractors

When the Extractor receives a redstone signal, it extracts an itemstack from an inventory block on the wide end and shunts it to the narrow end.

Crafting Recipe for Filters (shapeless)

Filters work similarly to shunts, except that they can be set to only accept one kind of item. The filter slot can be filled by right-clicking the filter; the four side-faces allow access to the filter slot via item-handling blocks.

Crafting Recipe for Color Tubes

Crafting a tube with stained glass instead of regular glass gets you a set of tubes of the same color. Color tubes behave like standard tubes but will not connect to tubes of other colors (except for standard tubes).

Crafting Recipe for Osmosis Filters

In addition to everything normal Filters do, Osmosis Filters will also automatically draw items from an inventory their input plate faces at the same rate as a hopper. Automatic item extracting respects the Filter's filter and can be disabled with redstone

Crafting Recipe for Distributors

Items entering the face of a distributor will be ejected to neighboring item handlers sequentially. If there are no neighboring item-handling blocks, the item will be ejected from the opposite side of the Distributor.

Crafting Recipe for Tubing Pliers

Tubing Pliers can connect two tube blocks together., forming a longer tube. For routing purposes, tubes connected in this way are considered to be one block apart.

Loaders

Loaders provide an inventory menu; any items placed into this menu will immediately be dispensed from the loader's output face.

Redstone Tubes

Redstone Tubes briefly emit a redstone signal while items travel through them.

Filters

Filters act like shunts, but only accept one type of item.

Tubes

Items inserted into a tube network (e.g. from a hopper) will be routed to the nearest valid inventory adjacent to the tube network.

Color Tubes

Tubes can be dyed in 16 colors. Colored tubes will only connect to tubes of the same color (and to the default tubes).

Extractors

Extractors extract a stack of items from neighboring inventories when powered, inserting the items into adjacent blocks or dispensing them into the world.

Tubing Pliers

Tubing Pliers can be used to connect two tube blocks not adjacent to each other.

Loaders

Loaders provide an inventory menu; any items placed into this menu will immediately be dispensed from the loader's output face.

Redstone Tubes

Redstone Tubes briefly emit a redstone signal while items travel through them.

Filters

Filters act like shunts, but only accept one type of item.

Osmosis Filters

Osmosis Filters automatically extract blocks from an adjacent inventory. They can face any of the six directions, and can be set to only accept one type of item.

Structures

Tubes fully support structure pieces and can be used in rotated and mirrored structure pieces (even when connected via tubing pliers).

Color Tubes

Tubes can be dyed in 16 colors. Colored tubes will only connect to tubes of the same color (and to the default tubes).

Extractors

Extractors extract a stack of items from neighboring inventories when powered, inserting the items into adjacent blocks or dispensing them into the world.

Shunts

Shunts immediately eject any items inserted into them from their output face. They appear as separate inventories to tube networks.

Tubing Pliers

Tubing Pliers can be used to connect two tube blocks not adjacent to each other.

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