Manis Simple Pipes

Manis Simple Pipes

Manis Simple Pipes is a lightweight item transport pipe mod.

It is inspired by the classic BuildCraft-style item pipe experience, but it does not include BuildCraft or AdditionalPipesBC code, textures, models, or other assets. The transport behavior is reimplemented from scratch as a small focused mod.

Current stable release: 0.1.0

Features

• Built for Minecraft 1.20.1 / Forge 47
• Adds wooden, wooden filter, cobblestone, stone, iron, golden, and insertion transport pipes
• Adds a wrench for configuring iron pipe output direction
• Renders travelling items inside pipes
• Shows protruding pipe arms only on connected sides
• Lightweight one-travelling-item-per-pipe design
• Empty normal pipes do not tick; only active pipes are scheduled
• Forestry Community Edition Bee House compatibility

Pipes

Wooden Transport Pipe

Extracts one item at a time from adjacent inventories while receiving a redstone signal.
It is extraction-only and cannot insert items into inventories.

Wooden Filter Transport Pipe

A wooden pipe with a text filter.
Right-click it to open the filter screen. The game does not pause while this screen is open.

Filter examples:

• @minecraft extracts only items from the Minecraft namespace
• wood pl nk extracts only items whose searchable text contains all three words: wood, pl, and nk
• @minecraft wood extracts only Minecraft-namespace items that also contain wood

Cobblestone Transport Pipe

A basic low-cost transport pipe.
It does not connect to stone pipes.

Stone Transport Pipe

A slightly faster transport pipe.
It does not connect to cobblestone pipes. Except for speed, its basic routing behavior is the same as cobblestone pipes.

Iron Transport Pipe

Accepts input from any side, but outputs to only one side.
Right-click with a wrench to cycle the output side among connected pipe sides.

Golden Transport Pipe

A fast transport pipe for higher-speed item movement.

Insertion Transport Pipe

Prioritizes inserting into adjacent inventories before forwarding items.
Right-click a face to increase its priority, or sneak-right-click to decrease it.
Priority 0 disables that side as an insertion target.

Forestry Community Edition Compatibility

ForestryCE Bee House insertion is supported: princesses/queens go to the queen slot, and drones go to the drone slot.
Wooden-pipe extraction from Bee Houses only extracts product slots, not queen/princess/drone input slots.

Manis Simple Pipes does not compile against Forestry APIs. This is a lightweight registry-id compatibility path for forestry:bee_house.

Notes

• This is not a full BuildCraft port.
• Wooden engines, MJ/power systems, fluid pipes, and gates are not included.
• Non-iron pipes may backtrack from dead ends or blocked routes. Iron pipes keep their configured output side.
• The one-item-per-pipe rule is intentional, so throughput and visuals differ from BuildCraft.
• Install on both client and server for multiplayer.

License and Credits

Manis Simple Pipes is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

BuildCraft and AdditionalPipesBC were used only as behavioral references. Their code and assets are not included. See the included THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for details.