Understand How Cooldown Coordinator Affects Item Flow Rates

What Cooldown Coordination Does

Cooldown Coordinator synchronizes when blocks can accept items by triggering cooldowns whenever an item transfer occurs. This prevents one type of block from overwhelming another with rapid transfers.

How It Works in Practice

1. When a vanilla hopper or compatible modded block transfers an item, it triggers a cooldown on the receiving block

2. That block cannot accept another item until its cooldown expires

3. All implementing blocks respect the same cooldown logic

4. This creates uniform, predictable flow rates across mixed networks

What This Means for Your Builds

Your item flow will be steady and consistent, matching vanilla hopper behavior. You won't see items pile up at interfaces between vanilla and modded blocks. Transfer rates depend on each block's individual cooldown duration—the mod doesn't change those, it just ensures they're respected uniformly. This makes complex multi-block sorting systems reliable and easier to debug.