Pumps & Pistons

Safer dismantling and clearer machine feedback

Mining a stocked pump, pumpjack or refinery in survival now leaves the machine intact and explains what remains inside. Refinery protection also covers stored heat and an unfinished batch. Drain liquids and finish processing before moving equipment to recover the resources.

After a blocked mining attempt, deliberately discard the contents by sneak-right-clicking the same machine with a pickaxe, then mining it while sneaking within ten seconds. The confirmation belongs to that player and machine; adding resources or starting another batch invalidates it. Holding the mining button cannot confirm. Creative removal and existing block-break permissions retain their normal behavior.

Right-click a fuel machine with a pickaxe to inspect its contents, capacities and relocation state. Pumpjacks distinguish missing power, full buffers and depleted or absent fields. Survey results now describe the direction of a field region without presenting a region offset as the player's distance to oil.

Warnings stay readable with chat hidden; enable chat for detailed inspection. Updated messages and illustrated manual pages cover all 18 languages. Production rates, fuel quantities, transfer controls and existing settings are unchanged.

The core works on its own with Fabric API and Java 25. For vehicles, install the matching 1.10.3 integration and Automobility: Unofficial Port 0.5.0-unofficial.36 for the same Minecraft version on the server and every client.

Read the illustrated field manual.