FastPipes

Pipes connect to neighboring blocks in up to six directions and render with 3D models. Items move visibly through pipes with a rotation animation, and fluid levels change in real time inside fluid pipes. Attachments such as extractors and inserters add their own models, and pipes can be painted with dye so that a painted pipe forms a separate network. The mod ships its own wrench, and it is designed for high throughput with little overhead: it does not tick unnecessary blocks and uses smart caching to keep network traffic low.

Item pipes come in several tiers with priority routing. Fluid pipes scale up to 1,000 mB of throughput, and energy pipes carry FE or RF, from 1k FE/t early in the game to 32k FE/t later on. Extractors and inserters come in five tiers each, and extractors can use whitelist or blacklist filters, redstone control and four routing modes: nearest, furthest, random and round robin. Machines can push items into the network directly, so extractors are needed only at the receiving end.

The mod is published for Forge and NeoForge. Files exist for 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.2 and 26.2, and the latest files are 1.3.9 for 1.20.1 on Forge and 2.0.5 for 26.2 on NeoForge. It is open source under the MIT License. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. JEI shows full information pages for pipes, extractors and inserters when that mod is installed.