appliedpackaging

Instead of sending each ingredient on its own and hoping it arrives in the right order, a package keeps the full set together. Packages carry resources in a fixed order, including repeated entries of the same resource and sparse recipe layouts, and the package is routed, buffered and filtered as a single logistics unit. Encoded patterns preserve that order, and the package capacity is checked before any materials are consumed, which prevents incomplete or oversized results.

Packages can be compressed for storage and are unpacked only when they reach a machine that accepts them. Before any of a package's contents can be used, a compatible machine has to unpack the whole package, which lets a linear multiblock or buffer chain depend on the order items arrive in. Contents stay hidden from the normal AE2 inventory views, while the package itself shows as a single item with a color marker and flags for its contents and layout.

The mod needs Applied Energistics 2 and GuideME, and it runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. Files are published for Forge only, with the 0.2.0-alpha build for 1.20.1 as the only game version. The source code is public, and the mod is released under the MIT License, so it is open source.