2024-06-28

Milestone 3 for Refined Storage 2 has been completed.

Screenshot showing some in-game features that were finished for milestone 3

Today, milestone 3 for Refined Storage 2 has been completed!

Screenshot showing how milestone 3 is completed on GitHub

If you don’t know what Refined Storage 2 is, please read the FAQ first.

Milestone 3 brings a lot of new features:

  • The mod got ported to Minecraft 1.20.4 and the NeoForge modloader.

    • Support for Forge has been dropped.

  • Curios and Trinkets integration mods have been created for the wireless items.

  • JEI and REI integrations have been extracted into separate integration mods.

  • EMI integration has been added.

  • The Relay has been added with support for subnetworks.

    • Watch a video about subnetworking in Refined Storage 2 here.

  • "Void excess" mode on the storages has been added.

    • An old, loved, removed feature from Refined Storage 1.x, now re-added for Refined Storage 2.

  • The Portable Grid has been added.

    • Custom disk models have been added.

    • Fluid disks have a different in-world model now.

  • The Configuration Card has been added.

    • A new item, copies configuration to other devices.

  • Network Receiver / Network Transmitter / Network Card has been added.

  • The Storage Monitor has been added.

  • Wireless Grid / Wireless Transmitter / Range Upgrade has been added.

    • Creative Range Upgrade has been added: infinite range upgrade (not craftable)

  • The Security Card and Security Manager has been added.

    • The security system has been slightly reworked and a Fallback Security Card has been added.

  • The Disk Interface (formerly known as "Disk Manipulator") has been added.

  • I’ve added Refined Storage 2 to Crowdin and integrated it with our code repository. Now everyone can contribute translations more easily!

  • Thanks to all the early testers, a lot of bugs have been fixed.

Some statistics:

  • Milestone 3 was in development from August 20th, 2023 to June 28th, 2024: about 10 months! (milestone 2 was in development from June 22th, 2022 to August 19th, 2023, that is little over a year)

  • Milestone 3 had 39 closed issues (milestone 2 had 63 closed issues)

  • Milestone 3 had 15 releases (milestone 2 had 15 releases too)

What’s next?

Now that milestone 3 is completed, I can focus on the last milestone, milestone 4!

Milestone 4 brings support for Minecraft 1.21, autocrafting and Mekanism chemical integration.

After that, Refined Storage 2 will be ready and will replace Refined Storage 1.

Want to try out Refined Storage 2 yourself?