Compact Machines 3

## **Synopsis**

Compact Machines 3 is a mod which enables the player to create boxes that are larger on the inside than on the outside (sound familiar?). These boxes come in many different sizes and can send items and redstone signals to and from the outside world.

## **Overview**

**The Personal Shrinking Device:**

The first thing that you are going to want to craft is the Personal Shrinking Device. This device is the key to Compact Machines 3. If you right click with the Personal Shrinking Device in hand while looking at nothing (air), you will open up the mod’s in-game guide. If you right click while looking at a Compact Machine, you will enter into the machine. More on Compact Machines later.

**The Miniaturization Field Projector:**

 The next thing you are going to need to get your hands on are four Miniaturization Field Projectors (one crafting recipe’s worth). These are relatively expensive if you are still early game. Everything that you craft for the mod from this point on will be in a multiblock structure built with these Miniaturization Field Projectors.

The multiblock structure has variable sizes. I suggest making the max size right away so you don’t have to rebuild it later when you want to craft more advanced items. Start by placing two Miniaturization Field Projectors directly across from each other, either 7, 11, or 15 blocks apart. For each size, the Projectors must be 1, 2, and 3 blocks off the ground respectively. They also must be facing each other. Once you have placed two Projectors, right click on one of them. Two arrows will appear in the world pointing to where the other two Projectors need to go. The coordinates will also be put in chat. Place the other two Projectors in their correct spots, facing each other. You should now have four Projectors equidistant from each other, all facing inwards. If there are no blocks obstructing the area, the Projectors will start working and you will see a giant orange cube. This is The Miniaturization Field.

In the JEI you can type “@CompactMachines” to bring up everything from the pack. Clicking on any of these items will bring up its “recipe.” The Personal Shrinking Device and The Miniaturization Field Projectors have a normal recipe, but the other items have a Multiblock Miniaturization Recipe. This means you have to build a structure within The Miniaturization Field in order to craft these items. In the Multiblock Miniaturization Field GUI there are 4 sections. In the center of the GUI is a spinning model of the multiblock structure that you must build.  Holding shift will make this model transparent so you can see the inside. On the left side of the GUI is a list of all of the blocks you need to craft the multiblock structure. In the top right is the item which you are crafting. In the bottom right is the item which you must throw into the Miniaturization Field to start the crafting process.

I know that the above information might be a bit confusing. I am going to walk you through an example. In the JEI click on Compact Machine Wall. You should now see a spinning iron block with a piece of redstone dust on top of it. On the left side you can see you will need one redstone dust and one iron block. In the top right you can see you are crafting 16 Compact Machine Walls. In the bottom right you can see you need to throw a piece of redstone dust into the Miniaturization Field (the orange cube) to start the crafting recipe. Now, go forth. Hit escape (esc) to leave the GUI. Get the required materials and place an iron block with redstone dust on top anywhere inside the orange cube. Once you have completed the structure, walk outside the bounds of the orange cube, and throw a piece of redstone (default button q) so that it touches the orange cube before it hits the ground. If you did everything right, the orange cube will start to move as crafting commences. Once the process is complete, your 16 Compact Machine Wall will be dropped at the center of the Miniaturization Field.

**Compact Machines:**

There are six different Compact Machines: Tiny, Small, Normal, Large, Giant, and Maximum. All of them can be crafted in your Miniaturization Field. The smallest machine is 3x3x3 on the inside. Each tier above increases the size by 2 more than its previous tier (small is 5x5x5, normal is 7x7x7, … maximum is 13x13x13). Place your Compact Machine down by right clicking on the ground with it in hand. You can break the Compact Machine with anything and it will drop. Breaking it with your hand takes almost a minute though. I suggest a pickaxe.

Right clicking on a Compact Machine with an empty hand will open its GUI. Here you can see a preview of what the inside of your Compact Machine looks like. If you click the name tag in the top right of the GUI you can rename your machine. If you click the map picture in the top left of the GUI you can filter which players are allowed to enter your machine. In the bottom right you will see a picture of a Personal Shrinking device if and only if you have one in your inventory. Clicking this button will cause you to enter the Compact Machine.

Right clicking on a Compact Machine with a Personal Shrinking Device in hand will allow you to enter into your Compact Machine. While inside the machine, shift right clicking with the Personal Shrinking Device in hand will set your entry point to be on the block you are looking at, given that the block is not obstructed. Right clicking with the Personal Shrinking Device in hand while inside the Compact Machine will teleport you out of the Compact Machine. You can place Compact Machines inside of other Compact Machines. The mechanics remain the same; right clicking your Personal Shrinking Device will move you out of the last machine you entered.

**Tunnels**

 Tunnels can be used to connect the inside of a Compact Machine to the outside world (which might also be a Compact Machine). You can only connect one tunnel to each outer face of your machine. Right click on one of the outer blocks of your machine (from the inside) with a tunnel. This will place an orange bead looking thing on the surface you clicked on. Right clicking this will cycle which face of the Compact Machine you are connecting the tunnel to.  If you right click on a tunnel and there are no other available faces to connect to, the tunnel will go into your inventory again.

Tunnels can connect to many different kinds of pipe/cable. I have not tested every pipe and cable in the mod pack, but I have tested *Cyclic* cables and can confirm that items, fluids, and energy can be moved in and out of Compact Machines through tunnels using Cyclic cables. There is a warning in the in-game guide for Compact Machines 3 that some modded pipes/cables will not be compatible due to how they were designed.

**Redstone Tunnels**

 Redstone Tunnels can be used to send redstone signals to and from Compact Machines. These tunnels are exactly the same as the normal tunnels described above except redstone tunnels are unidirectional and have to be toggled whether the connection is moving into the machine or out of the machine. When you place the Redstone Tunnel onto the outer surface of the inside of your machine, the top right of the surface you placed it on will have a little red square. Red means the signal is moving into the machine. Right click on the red square to turn it green. Green means the signal is moving out of the machine. For some reason, you cannot send a redstone signal Down. This means you can only have 5 redstone tunnels per Compact Machine.