Foundry | Automated Production Lines v1.0.0

Foundry
Foundry turns a placed block into a self running production line. Drop in raw materials, pick a recipe, and the foundry converts them into finished goods on a schedule, even while you are offline or the chunk is unloaded. Higher tiers run faster and hold more. Everything is managed from a clean in-game menu, no commands needed to run one day to day.

Built for: Survival, SMP, Skyblock, Factions.



How it works
Place a foundry, right click it, pick a recipe, and deposit the inputs. From there it runs on a real time clock and produces on a fixed cycle whether or not anyone is nearby. Finished goods collect in an output buffer until a player comes to pick them up. If the output fills up, the foundry pauses that cycle until there is room again.



Features

• Automated production on a real time clock, running even offline and in unloaded chunks.
• A clean 54 slot management menu: set the recipe, deposit or eject materials, collect output, pause or resume, and upgrade the tier.
• Every click is handled programmatically, so materials can never be duplicated by dragging items around.
• A recipe picker menu that lists every recipe a player is allowed to run. Recipes gated behind a permission show as locked.
• Four tiers out of the box, each with its own speed, input and output capacity, and upgrade cost, all set in config.
• Nine recipes covering smelting, glass, charcoal, brick, stone, and paper, plus a permission gated Netherite Alloy recipe as an example.
• A short sound and a puff of smoke and flame on a finished cycle, only played in loaded chunks where a player could see it.
• Foundries save to disk on a timer and again on shutdown, so a stop and start never loses a foundry or what is stored inside it.
• Breaking a foundry that still holds materials asks for confirmation first, then returns the block and everything inside it to the ground.
• Config auto migration keeps your settings when the plugin updates.

Commands

• /foundry help - show the command list.
• /foundry list - list the foundries you own with their coordinates, tier, recipe, and status.
• /foundry info - show details on the foundry you are looking at.
• /foundry recipes - list every recipe you are allowed to run.
• /foundry give [player] [tier] [amount] - give a foundry block (admin).
• /foundry reload - reload config and messages live, no restart (admin).

Aliases: /fdy, /foundries

Permissions

• foundry.use - place foundries and manage your own. Default: everyone.
• foundry.admin - give blocks, open or break any foundry, and reload. Default: operators.
• foundry.limit.unlimited - bypass the per player foundry limit. Default: operators.
• foundry.recipe.netherite - unlock the example gated recipe. Default: operators.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21 to 26.1.2.
• Paper, Spigot, or Bukkit.
• Java 21.
• No dependencies.

Installation

1. Drop Foundry-1.0.0.jar into your plugins folder.
2. Start the server once to generate config.yml and messages.yml.
3. Edit config.yml to taste, then run /foundry reload.

Try it first
Foundry is live on our test server, hosted here on BuiltByBit. Use the test server link on this page to connect and place one yourself.

Support
Questions and bug reports are welcome. Join the No Click Studios Discord at https://discord.gg/drBwA958bn.