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Batteries
Batteries is a tech mod for Minecraft using NeoForge. It's a port of my old 1.16 Batteries mod, with some additional features.
The mod focuses on charging items in your inventory in a configurable way.
This mod was born out of frustration with having a "power-hungry" item that sucked up all battery charge, leaving other items in my inventory with no charge.
Instead, each battery in this mod lets you configure what and how it charges.
Features
Batteries
The mod adds a battery progression with multiple tiers:
- Basic Battery
- Advanced Battery
- Elite Battery
- Ultimate Battery
- Ender Battery
- Creative Battery
Batteries can be charged in your choice of the Charger (included in this mod) or any other mod's charger functionality.
Each battery can be configured to charge:
- hotbar items
- main inventory items
- worn armor and offhand items
- nearby machines
The battery GUI also supports:
- whitelist and blacklist mode: only charge the things you want to charge
- fair charging: don't let power-hungry items sap all your battery's energy; a battery configred with fair charging will charge items to equilibrium
Ender Batteries can be linked to an Ender Charger for remote charging while carried by the player.
Chargers
The mod includes two charger blocks:
- Charger
- Ender Charger
The regular Charger accepts normal batteries and charges them from inserted power.
The Ender Charger accepts a linked Ender Battery and sends energy into that linked battery while the charger remains loaded and the Ender battery is in the player's inventory.
Battery Block
The Battery Block is a placeable energy storage block.
It provides:
- internal energy storage
- a configurable sided I/O GUI
- charge-level visuals on the block face
- capacity upgrades by crafting with batteries or additional Battery Blocks
Coal Generator
The Coal Generator is a simple starter power source.
It:
- burns any furnace fuel
- generates configurable energy per tick
- outputs energy on all sides
- accepts fuel through its GUI
- accepts fuel automation from item insertion via hoppers or other mods' item transport
Battery-Powered Gear
The mod adds battery-powered variants of gear:
- Diamond sword and tools
- Diamond armor
- Shield
- Bow
Battery-powered items:
- Are crafted with their respective item + one or more batteries
- Can have their energy capacity upgraded by crafting with additional batteries at any time
- Use energy instead of durability
- Use configurable additional energy per enchantment
- Stop functioning if out of energy, but don't break
- otherwise function identically to their non-powered versions
Notably:
- Mending and Unbreaking don't do anything on enchanted battery-powered items
Recipes and Upgrades
- When crafting batteries or battery-powered items, they retain the charge they had, if any
- Batteries can be combined to make a new battery with larger capacity
- Battery Blocks can be combined with other Battery Blocks or Batteries to make a new Battery Block with larger capacity
- Battery-powered gear can similarly be upgraded with more battery storage
- Any recipe that takes a Battery or Battery Block can take one or more of those items to grant more energy capacity
Debug Commands
The mod includes a /batteries command for testing and development.
Current commands include:
/batteries charge held|hotbar|inventory|all [amount]/batteries drain held|hotbar|inventory|all [amount]/batteries kit
/batteries kit places a chest in front of the player containing the vanilla materials and base gear needed to craft the mod content from scratch.