Changelog

Version: 0.12.3
Date: 2026-10-23
  Changes:
    - Remove the Pattern Encoder, including existing entities and items.
    - Add furnace autocrafting, batched machine feeding and terminal crafting with recursive resource previews.
    - Fix component windows in remote sandbox views.

Version: 0.11.7
Date: 2026-10-23
  Changes:
    - Remove Pattern Encoders, including entities and items in existing saves. Reconnect network gaps with conduits.
    - Discover and pin recipes without an encoder. Support furnaces using their last smelting recipe.
    - Feed bounded ingredient batches, reducing per-craft transport waits.
    - Add terminal crafting with search, sorting, single/ten-item clicks and recursive resource previews.
    - Add storage sorting and collapsible recipe/machine/component diagnostics.
  Bugfixes:
    - Open visible component windows in remote sandbox views on a separate surface from the character.

Version: 0.11.6
Date: 2026-10-21
  Bugfixes:
    - Resolve the clicked entity from the input cursor position when sandbox controllers have no synchronized selection.
    - Fix ordinary clicks and Ctrl+M reaching component windows; ignore world-opening inputs over GUI elements.
  Changes:
    - Test registered input handlers and native empty-selection recovery, in addition to window APIs.

Version: 0.11.5
Date: 2026-10-21
  Bugfixes:
    - Support infinity chests with input/output interfaces, storage buses and regional chest endpoints.
    - Open the analyzer without a character and storage panels without a main inventory in sandbox controllers.
    - Keep native inventory controls for character, god and editor players; close standalone windows correctly.
  Changes:
    - Verify sandbox compatibility with Kux-BlueprintExtensions 4.3.18 and Kux-CoreLib 4.17.10 on Factorio 2.1.22.

Version: 0.11.4
Date: 2026-10-18
  Bugfixes:
    - Support the unified crafter inventory identifiers in Factorio 2.1 for machine discovery, transport and automatic crafting.
    - Use the supported script-disable API for animation pause/restart and cloning; Factorio 2.1 makes active read only.
  Changes:
    - Added verified Resource Compressor Extended integration instructions and joint engine coverage.
    - Added separate Factorio 2.1 package generation (0.12.0), retaining the Factorio 2.0 package.

Version: 0.11.3
Date: 2026-10-18
  Bugfixes:
    - Recover pending crafting transfers in the same action as full crafting escrow when the player has room.
  Changes:
    - Show exact recovered and remaining recoverable counts.
    - Explain recovery requiring a character inventory separately from a full inventory.
    - Preserve numeric recovery integration results and add read-only recovery status.

Version: 0.11.2
Date: 2026-10-18
  Graphics:
    - Add the missing in-game and Mod Portal thumbnail using original Manifold artwork.
  Changes:
    - Update the mod description, illustrated player guide and compatibility limits.
    - Prepare the first public preview with clean runtime packaging and separate release distribution.
    - Preserve gameplay and animation behavior from 0.11.1.
  Bugfixes:
    - Show Normal in the crafting quality selector even without the Quality expansion.

Version: 0.11.1
Date: 2026-10-17
  Graphics:
    - Render every machine loop at 60fps, preserving the intended cycle duration.
    - Match loop position and velocity; hide the encoder tape return behind fixed guides.
  Bugfixes:
    - Normalize standalone prototype speed to avoid applying the runtime speed twice.
    - Freeze and resume attached mechanisms at their current pose instead of resetting to frame zero.
    - Replace GIF timing in current previews with MP4 and animated WebP.
  Changes:
    - Verify native cycle repetition and source-frame seams as well as power/save/clone behavior.

Version: 0.11.0
Date: 2026-10-17
  Graphics:
    - Animate operating mechanisms on all thirteen machine buildings and all visual variants.
    - Add 55 keyframed Blender views and synchronized moving cast shadows.
  Changes:
    - Preserve native inventories and fixed structural/manual parts.
    - Gate machinery by actual electricity/network state and physical transfer activity.
    - Add native motion, offline, restart, cloning and checkpoint validation across every view.

Version: 0.10.1
Date: 2026-10-17
  Graphics:
    - Animate the basic controller flywheel and crank in four directions with matching shadows.
    - Native electricity-driven 24-frame animation, with editable Blender source scenes.
  Changes:
    - Add targeted animation rendering and native electrical/rotation/checkpoint acceptance.

Version: 0.10.0
Date: 2026-10-16
  Graphics:
    - Complete premium industrial Blender overhaul: restrained metallic highlights, machined edges and subtle wear.
    - Dedicated models/icons for all hardware and cells; unique regional and advanced hardware replace tinted reuse.
    - Individual illustrations for all 18 technologies, including each upgrade rank and optional branch.
    - 256px world sprites/shadows at scale 0.25 preserve world size, rotations, connections and saved cosmetics.
    - Improve native inventory icon framing and retain editable Blender source scenes.
  Changes:
    - Add complete raster/prototype contracts and native visual galleries with saved-checkpoint replay.

Version: 0.9.0
Date: 2026-10-16
  Features:
    - Vanilla space-science advanced controllers/endgame conduits; 1 MW demand, eightfold bandwidth, six-tick local latency.
    - Native upgrade chain from copper/basic through reinforced to advanced.
  Optimizations:
    - Shared corridor ledgers preserve physical contention while reducing long-route work.
    - Sleeping packets defer endpoint queries until due.
  Bugfixes:
    - Correct reserved cargo GUI field names and bound request scrolling.
  Scripting:
    - Add permission-checked analyzer_open and space_open remote calls; inspect reports route ledger/cache counts and packet items.

Version: 0.8.0
Date: 2026-10-16
  Features:
    - Optional planet research, native freshness logistics and physical cargo request scheduling.
    - Reachable hub/landing-pad request UI: /manifold space.
  Changes:
    - Vanilla and standalone Quality remain supported; digital cells still reject perishables.
  Scripting:
    - Add permission-checked space_configure and space_inspect remote calls.

Version: 0.7.0
Date: 2026-10-16
  Features:
    - Regional coordinator with provider, requester and depot roles and distributed-logistics research.
    - Physical staging inventory federation, exact-quality regional requests and supply/demand reservations.
    - Real train dispatch through provider, requester and depot, using native cargo wagons and inserters.
    - Priorities, batch and capacity limits, provider reserves and live transfer monitoring.
    - Safe interruption and cancellation; persistent jobs, blueprint tags, cloning and settings paste.
  Graphics:
    - Regional blue tint of the existing original terminal artwork.

Version: 0.6.0
Date: 2026-10-15
  Features:
    - Automatic discovery of selected assembler recipes through connected crafting interfaces.
    - Recipe registry and saved preferences per item/quality; safe machine and recipe ambiguity handling.
    - Exact-quality dependency crafting with physical reservations and real machine production.
    - Production monitoring with machine diagnostics, craft counts, elapsed time and physical escrow.
  Changes:
    - Explicit encodings pin recipe and quality and retain them in blueprint tags and clones.
    - Stable registry buttons and production queue controls; optional standalone Quality or Space Age.
    - Native save/reload and v0.5.1 upgrades preserve existing inventories and requests.

Version: 0.5.1
Date: 2026-10-15
  Graphics:
    - Original storage bus, pattern encoder, crafting interface and crafting CPU models, sprites and icons.
    - Dedicated smart logistics and autocrafting research illustrations.
    - Editable Blender sources and reproducible generators; matching native cast shadows.

Version: 0.5.0
Date: 2026-10-15
  Features:
    - Pattern encoder, crafting interface, crafting CPU and autocrafting technology.
    - Explicit real-machine patterns, crafting requests, dependency planning and physical reservations.
    - Bounded production queues with status, cancellation and orphaned-reservation recovery.
  Changes:
    - Machine feeds, collection and storage returns share physical link/source capacity and latency.
    - Normal-quality, deterministic, single-item-result recipes; no fluids or modules.
    - Saved plans, reservations and transit inventories survive reload; blueprint tags and cloning retain patterns.

Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2026-10-15
  Features:
    - Eight item filters, exact quality, allow/reject modes, destination priorities and stock targets.
    - Storage buses connect real physical chests with read/write access and deduplicated terminal indexing.
    - Red/green circuit enable conditions read connected inventories; settings revalidate in-flight deliveries.
    - Logistics settings panel, blueprint tags, cloning and settings paste.
  Changes:
    - Pending deliveries reserve stock targets; blocked transfers preserve native item ownership.
  Testing:
    - Vanilla and Space Age conservation, circuits, bus removal, save/reload and v0.3.1 upgrade.

Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - Native Factorio machine/container UI for terminal and drive, with character inventory and native slots.
    - Searchable item grid, stable slot buttons and inventory tooltips.
    - Eight native terminal deposit slots send items to cells using normal powered packet transport.
    - Four native drive bays at every quality, with normal transfer and filter controls.
    - Analyzer docks to native inventory windows with compact two-column diagnostics.
  Changes:
    - Existing terminals migrate to containers; cell inventories and in-flight escrow are preserved.

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - Portable 16-/64-slot cells, four-bay storage drives and searchable terminals.
    - Cursor deposits, stack/one-item withdrawals and live storage capacity statistics.
    - Drive transport retains packet latency/bandwidth and recovers escrow when a cell is removed.
    - Power, reach, force and surface checks on each terminal action; bounded 32-drive access and 50-row pages.
  Graphics:
    - Original Blender storage hardware, cell icons and research illustration with editable scenes.
  Testing:
    - Native cell capacity, mining, conservation, full cells, transit removal and real save/reload.
    - Vanilla/Space Age acceptance, v0.2 transit-save upgrade and real-player GUI checks.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - Reinforced controllers/conduits, native upgrade targets and mixed-tier bandwidth.
    - Three ranks each of bandwidth and latency research improve existing networks.
    - Affected-component rebuilds keep unrelated networks running.
    - Analyzer displays bottleneck capacity, researched delay and tier energy figures.
  Graphics:
    - Original Blender reinforced hardware and three technology illustrations, with editable scenes.
  Testing:
    - Research, actual construction robot upgrades, mixed routes, rebuild restart, conservation and researched save/reload.
    - Graphical client verified sprites, research icons, rotation, variants, planner and diagnostics.

Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - Deterministic shortest paths and shared bidirectional per-edge capacity.
    - Independent branches run concurrently; source priority rotates for shared trunks.
    - Analyzer shows measured edge utilization and capacity waits.
  Testing:
    - Branch/trunk engine fixtures, bounded routing tests and v0.1.2 transit-save upgrade validation.

Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-10-14
  Graphics:
    - Worn matte materials, directional lighting and separate cast shadows.
    - Matching device fittings, automatic connections and three visual designs.
  Features:
    - R rotates controllers/interfaces; Ctrl+Alt+R rotates buffer gauges; Ctrl+Alt+V cycles visual variants.
    - Blueprint tags preserve visual designs and buffer gauge orientation.
  Changes:
    - Rotatable interface migration remaps pending packets and preserves real items.

Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026-10-14
  Graphics:
    - Original Blender component sprites, icons and research illustration.
    - Sixteen native conduit connection variants reflect the real network.
  Changes:
    - Conduits use simple entities with an item-conserving saved-game migration.
  Testing:
    - Copied v0.1.0 transit save migrated and reloaded with conserved items.

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-10-14
  Features:
    - Basic powered item networks with copper conduits, interfaces and physical buffers.
    - Inventory-backed packets, latency, shared bandwidth and network diagnostics.
    - Save/load persistence and recoverable items after endpoint destruction.
  Testing:
    - Pure Lua accounting tests and isolated Factorio 2.0.77 engine scenarios.
  Info:
    - Per-edge routing, storage cells and autocrafting are planned for later milestones.