An addon for the Create mod, intended for players with intermediate to advanced knowledge in Create's railways, storage and package routing system, and automation. Focused on solutions for offline, scalable, remote logistics, allowing players to build off of existing mechanics in Create to expand their bases.

Designed with Create's balance and level of realism in mind - no tesseracts or teleporters required. No programming background required.

New Blocks

• Stock Manifest Compiler: Connects to a storage network, and creates (output slot) manifests when powered with redstone, and accepts (input slot) tickets to perform remote orders.
• Stock Manifest Reader: Accepts (input slot) manifests and creates (output slot) tickets for remote orders. Connects to a storage network, and shows contents of the most recently accepted manifest as if it were an inventory on a stock link.
• Station chunkloader: Loads chunks in a 3x3 area around itself, for 5 minutes, when a train arrives at the connected station. Multiple chunkloaders can be linked to a single station for more area.
• Compiler Expansion Module: If a storage network's contents are too complex, the manifest compiler won't be able to list all of them. Connecting expansion modules to compilers allows item entries to be distributed between each one, resulting in one manifest per expansion module.
• Ticket Crate: Alternative source of tickets.

New Items

• Stock Manifest: Holds inventory information.
• Item Request Ticket: Holds information about an item request.

Why this addon?

Normally, in order to access storages remotely with Create's logistic system, you would chunk load them - this incurs a significant cost on servers (and large singleplayer bases) the larger bases are, and forces the entire storage system to stay in memory.

The term "offline storage" refers to the alternative - vaults, drawers, and other storage blocks that stay in unloaded chunks most of the time, and are loaded on demand to respond to orders. The compiler, reader, and train station chunkloader blocks provided by Meta Logistics - alongside Create's existing features - are intended as a complete solution to building a warehouse that functions as an offline storage, and as a versatile way of building warehouse/supplier/consumer networks on the scale of entire world maps, regardless of distance, dimension, or any other factor.

In addition, this addon aims to add tools for storage, automation, and logistics to cover common use cases. I think that some - such as the ticket crate - can be a little bit challenging (i.e. may require a strong background in the Create mod) to fully take advantage of.

Limitations

• Orders made with tickets count as separate "orders" from the original request. They do not encode crafting recipes, and packages ordered by a compiler cannot be repackaged with the original order.

Securing your networks

• Use the compiler block's menu to control where tickets are allowed from. Select from 1 of 4 options: Any network, same origin (tickets are only valid if they came from the same manifest), same owner (tickets are only valid if they came from another locked network with the same owner), or same origin & same owner. This is especially important when allowing compilers to connect to a shared rail network in multiplayer.
• Use attribute filters to sort and filter tickets and manifests based on their origin network & network owner.