maruohon
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8 years ago Yes unfortunately I haven't updated the CurseForge description for anything added in the 0.5.x or later versions and I'm sorry for that :/ All my other mods have up-to-date documentation except Ender Utilities for the newer and more useful content. I have meant to start writing it many times, but then something else has distracted me, since writing documentation usually isn't the most interesting of things :P Things like the Wand of the Lazy Builder and the Item Pickup Manager definitely would benefit from proper documentation. I'll try to work on that "soon" (tm).
About the I.P.M. on particular: the main (ie. "pickup") functionality of it is only triggered when the player would pick an item from the ground (which in code happens when the player entity collides with an item entity in world, more or less). So the idea of it is that you can do two separate things with the items that you would normally pick up to your inventory:
1) You can configure filters (black or white list) for automatically sending the would-be-picked-up items to the linked target inventory (and sending the items is the only thing that needs the capacitor/ender charge in this item btw). You can also manually send items by putting them/shift clicking them into the transport slot (poor man's ender pouch, kind of).
2) You can either black list or white list a set of items that you are allowed to pick up from the ground to your inventory.
For these tasks there are the two separate filter sections. The remote transport is first, if an item is allowed through that filter, then it will immediately be transported (if there is space in the target inventory). If an item can't or isn't allowed to be transported, or if the transport feature is bypassed/disabled (the arrow buttons on the side), then the inventory pickup filter is considered next. Same deal here, you can bypass the filter, which means that you would pick up everything as normal. If it's enabled, then you can ONLY pick up items that pass the filter settings. So let's say you have it as black list, with dirt and cobble as the filter items. Then you would not be able to pick up dirt or cobble items from the ground as long as the I.P.M. is in your inventory, and enabled.
Also note that there is support for multiple I.P.M. items. The way that works is that the IPMs are looked at in order in your inventory, and the first one that has a "direct match" to the item in question is the one that defines what happens to it. This means that when the item is actually set as a filter, either black or white list, then that is what happens to that item (from the first IPM found, like I said above). So if you have a white list for diamonds, and you try to pick up dirt, since it's not directly found (disallowed, but not black listed per se), it will look at the subsequent IPMs for matches. If there is another IPM with white list dirt, then the dirt will be allowed. If there are no matches, then it will NOT be allowed since the first one had a white list and the item was not allowed based on that. The order in which IPMs are looked at is top left to bottom right, but hotbar is the first row (it's defined that way in code, only visually in the GUI the hotbar is the lowest row).
So to sum it up a bit, you can configure an IPM to send random crap like common mob drops or plant stuff etc. directly to storage, or a trash can or whatever, and/or you can configure which items you are allowed to pick up from the ground while running around. Or you can use the IPM just for manually sending items to the linked target inventory.
DoomSquirter
Could you point me towards any documentation or anything that shows how to use some of the newer items added that aren't already on curse?
For example, the item pickup manager. Thought this might be a workaround for not having ability to bind to a specific chest with the ender bag but for the life of me, I can't figure out how it works. I added a crystal that was bound to a block. added a capacitor and it says enabled but nothing I pickup gets put into that inventory.
Thanks for making probably my favorite mod of 1.10 thus far. My favorite items are the Handy Bag (which I think is the best item -period- in modded minecraft), and the handy chests and the lazy builders wand and especially the elevators. You've definately found a niche that needed addressing.
Edit: Ok, I think I figured out what I was doing wrong, I assume for the item pickup manager you need to use filters. there is no "pickup everything not in hotbar" kind of thing. I can deal with that :) I guess the only question I still have is if there are plans to update the curse page with more info or if you're setting up a wiki or something. Thanks again!