Deployer
Punches, Uses, and Activates. This machine will try to imitate a player as much as possible. Can Take and Deposit items to its own Inventory. Held items have to be inserted and extracted from the block directly.
When Powered by Kinetics: Extends its arm and activates in the block space 2m ahead of itself.
R-Clicked with Wrench: Toggles punch mode. In punch mode, the Deployer will attempt to use its item to break blocks or hurt entities.
When Filter assigned: Deployer will not activate unless held item matches the filter. Items not matching cannot be inserted; Held items matching the filter cannot be extracted.
Stress requirement: 4 SU per RPM
The Deployer is a component that is extremely versatile in use. It can simulate several interactions that would otherwise be done manually. In order to run, it either needs constant rotational force (with its speed correlates to the rotational speed of the input), or for it to be in motion on a contraption.
Deployers can be created through the following method:
| Recipe | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
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Crafting: 1 Brass Casing 2 Cogwheels 1 Electron Tube 1 Hand |
1 Deployer |
- Deployers activate in the block space that is 2m in front of them. Between the active area and the deployer can be any other block, it will be ignored/phased through.
- When the Deployer is supposed to use items, they can either be handed to it via right-click, inserted into the block directly or from attached Portable Storage. To ensure that Deployers pull items from attached Portable Storage, apply a filter to its filter slot, matching only the desired items.
- Using a Wrench on the front face of a Deployer toggles the mode between Use and Attack. This corresponds to whether a player would click with the right or the left mouse button.
- When a Deployer obtains items from activating/punching something, it will transfer the obtained item to a Portable Storage. If there isn't Portable Storage , the Deployer's obtained item will drop onto the ground, however if the Deployer isn't on a contraption, item's obtained by activation eg: milking a cow, or by punching a mob, will result in the obtained items being deposited into the inventory of the stationary Deployer.
This Deployer is set up to only activate when an Empty Bucket is held (filter slot). Since there is a chute below and it has a filter, it will wait until a bucket is inserted into its inventory, proceed to milk the cow, and deposit the obtained milk bucket into its inventory: to be extracted via chute below.
- Opening doors
- Pushing buttons
- Pulling a Hand Crank
- Clearing a Basin
- Rotating items in item frames
- Igniting TNT (image)
- Stripping logs
- Fertilizing Saplings
- Picking up or Placing Fluids
- Placing items in item frames
- Applying a string to a sequence of Nixie Tubes via a name-tag.
- Automated Sandpaper polishing (image)
- Milking Cows
- Shearing Sheep
- Throwing Snowballs or Eggs (can be used to aggro mobs when not on a contraption
- Drinking Consumables
- Simulates placing a block with the held item
- Activating Note Blocks (image)
- Drops player-specific entity drops
- Killed entities do not spawn experience orbs
- Simulates breaking the block with the held item.
Vertical Deployers in Use mode will present their held items in a more aesthetic fashion.
Once rotation is supplied, they will still activate normally.
- Deployers can be mounted on Moving Contraptions. They will activate just like they would when stationary, once for every block position they visit.
- Deployers hold on to their items and filter when moved, however they will not be rendered.
- If Portable Inventories are mounted on the same structure, the moving Deployer will use those similarly to the adjacent inventories in stationary Mode. On the structure they do not have to be adjacent.