Frosty's Sorting Depot

1.0.0 — 2026-06-23

First release: a complete, purely mechanical sorting network.

Added

• Depot Controller — routes buffered items to registered destinations on a hopper-style cadence (~4× a hopper) and pulls items from an inventory placed directly above it. Exposes its buffer as a comparator signal and as an item capability on its top face.
• Linker Node — a placeable destination marker that holds a Filter Card and a priority and feeds the inventory it faces.
• Linker (tool) — right-click a Linker Node, then a Controller, to register it into the network.
• Filter Cards — three modes, all configurable in-world by right-clicking the card onto an item:
  • Item — match an exact item.
  • Tag — match a tag; click an item to cycle through its tags.
  • Overflow — accept anything.
• Priority Stamps — set a destination's priority (1–5); right-click a Linker Node to apply.
• Overflow Chest — an entity-rendered chest (double-chest joining + lid animation) that catches any item no destination accepted.
• Depot Terminal — a read-only dashboard listing each destination's target, filter, and fill level, plus overflow fill and buffer count; scrolls for large networks.
• Advancements — a "Sorting Depot" progression tree.
• Recipes, loot tables (blocks drop their contents), and an in-game config screen.

Notes

• Items are never voided: anything with no available destination waits safely in the Controller's buffer.
• Works with any storage that exposes the standard NeoForge item capability — vanilla and modded alike.
• Built on the 26.2 transfer API (ResourceHandler<ItemResource>).

Known limitations

• A double Overflow Chest currently exposes one half to routing (single chests are unaffected).
• Tag filters bind one tag at a time.