MechWorks

1.2.1

Pack-maker and server-compatibility release — no gameplay changes, all about giving modpacks and servers control.

For Pack Makers & Servers

• Extensive config: bot mining speed, dig speed, and energy costs (botMineCooldownTicks, botDigCooldownTicks, botMineEnergyCost, botDigEnergyCost); flattener throughput (flattenBlocksPerPass); mech fuel consumption (the existing energyDrainMultiplier applies to every mech energy cost) — all in config/mechworks.json, which auto-regenerates with new fields on update.
• Block blacklists: blocks in the mechworks:bot_unbreakable block tag or the botBlockBlacklist config list are never broken or replaced by any bot — dig routes plan around them.
• Claim protection awareness (botsRespectClaims, default on): bots carry their deployer's identity and clear every block edit through the standard Fabric protection events, so chunk-claim mods (FTB Chunks, Open Parties and Claims, and similar) see the owner at work — bots mine their owner's claims and refuse everyone else's. Ownerless bots are adopted by the first player to interact with them.
• Item-pipe interop: the Charging Chest exposes the Fabric transfer API, so modded pipes and conduits can insert and extract (vanilla hoppers already worked).
• Recipes: audited — every craftable item and block ships as a plain JSON recipe under data/mechworks/recipes/, overridable by datapack for progression gating.
• On energy: MechWorks speaks Team Reborn Energy, the Fabric ecosystem's shared energy standard (the FE-equivalent on this loader); Tech Reborn, Modern Industrialization, and friends interoperate through it out of the box.