Project Red Expansion FAQ

Start by crafting a Project Bench, which is the core crafting station for this mod's components. From there, build a Charging Bench and a Battery so you have a way to store and distribute power to your machines.

Most devices run on electricity stored in Batteries, which you charge at a Charging Bench and then place or connect to your machines. Battery Boxes let you pool stored charge so several devices can draw from the same supply.

A Battery is a single portable power storage item you can charge and carry. A Battery Box is a block that holds and distributes power to connected machines, acting as a central energy buffer.

The Auto Crafter performs crafting recipes automatically when it has the right ingredients and power. You define what it should craft using a Recipe Plan, which you set up with the Project Bench.

A Recipe Plan is an item that stores a crafting recipe you've encoded, typically made via the Project Bench. Insert it into an Auto Crafter so the machine knows what to produce.

Pneumatic Tubes transport items between inventories when connected in a network, and you can route them with Transposers to control direction and filtering. They need to be linked properly to the source and destination containers to function.

The Deployer acts like a fake player, using items such as tools, bonemeal, or buckets on blocks in front of it. The Block Breaker simply mines the block it faces, making the two complementary for farms and automation.

Frames form a movable structure, Frame Motors push or pull that structure in a direction, and Frame Actuators control when the movement happens. Together they let you relocate machines or build moving contraptions.

The most common causes are no power (check your Battery or Battery Box charge), a missing or incorrect Recipe Plan, or missing ingredients in the input. Make sure the machine is also receiving a redstone signal if it requires one to run.

It is designed to work alongside other Project Red modules and generally coexists with common tech mods, though power systems are not always interchangeable between mods. Large networks of Pneumatic Tubes or many moving Frames can cause lag, so keep tube runs and frame contraptions reasonably sized.

It adds several machine blocks and devices, frame blocks and motors for building moving contraptions, and tubing to transport and sort items. It also covers electricity generation.

It supports Minecraft 1.19.2, 1.20.1, 1.20.4, and 1.21.1.

It runs on Forge and NeoForge.

It requires the external library mods CodeChicken Lib and CB Multipart, plus the Project Red Core module.

It registers 16 items and blocks, including the auto crafter, battery, battery box, block breaker, charging bench, deployer, electric screwdriver, empty battery, fire starter, frame, frame actuator, frame motor, pneumatic tube, project bench, recipe plan, and transposer.

Yes, it implements movable frames so you can build large constructions that can be moved or even move themselves. Frame blocks and motors are used to create these moving contraptions.

Yes, it includes a tube system to transport fluids and items, and to sort your items.

No, Expansion is one module of the Project Red series. Project Red is a collection of mods that improve Redstone circuitry with wiring, logic gates, and integrated circuits, heavily inspired by Red Power by Eloraam.

Yes, it integrates very nicely with CB Multipart, and all its tiles are created to behave with others in the same block space.

It is listed under storage, technology, and utility, and on CurseForge under Energy, Fluid, and Item Transport, and Redstone.