Integrated Terminals Mod Guide: Storage, Crafting & Network Management
Integrated Terminals adds powerful terminal interfaces to your Integrated Dynamics networks, letting you browse, search, and manage all items, fluids, and energy stored across your network from a single GUI. With built-in crafting grid support, JEI integration, and channel-based filtering, it transforms your Integrated Dynamics setup into a fully functional storage management system.
Overview
Integrated Terminals is an addon for Integrated Dynamics that provides terminal-style interfaces for viewing and interacting with everything stored on your network. Rather than checking individual inventories or tanks, you can place a single Storage Terminal part on any Integrated Dynamics cable and instantly access all items, fluids, and energy across every connected inventory and machine.
The mod adds two terminal part types, two decorative glass blocks, and deep integration with JEI for recipe transfer. If you also install Integrated Crafting, the terminals gain autocrafting capabilities, letting you request items to be crafted from network recipes. You can browse all items and recipes this mod adds using the tabs on this page.
Prerequisites
Integrated Terminals requires Integrated Dynamics (version 1.0.9 or higher) as its base mod. You need a working Integrated Dynamics network with cables, inventories, and ideally some form of item or fluid storage already connected before the terminals become useful. If you want autocrafting support, you will also need Integrated Crafting (version 1.0.8 or higher) installed alongside it.
Make sure you understand the basics of Integrated Dynamics networks: placing cables, connecting inventories, and how parts attach to cable faces. The terminals are panel-type parts, meaning they attach to one face of an Integrated Dynamics cable block.
Getting Started
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Set Up Your Integrated Dynamics Network
Before you can use any terminal, you need a functioning Integrated Dynamics cable network. Place cables connecting your Chests, Barrels, tanks, and machines. The terminals will see every inventory connected to the same network, so plan your cable layout accordingly.
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Craft and Place a Storage Terminal
Craft a Storage Terminal part (check the Recipes tab for the exact recipe, which uses Menril-based materials from Integrated Dynamics). Right-click a cable face to attach the terminal, then right-click the terminal itself to open its GUI. The terminal consumes 2 units of network energy while active.
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Navigate the Terminal Tabs
The Storage Terminal GUI has tabs along the top for each ingredient type on your network. The Items tab (shown as a Chest icon) displays all ItemStacks. The Fluids tab (shown as a Water Bucket icon) shows all fluids. The Energy tab (shown as an Energy Battery icon) shows energy levels. There is also a Crafting tab that combines item browsing with a 3x3 crafting grid. Click any tab to switch views, or press Tab to cycle through them (Shift+Tab to go backwards).
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Search and Sort Your Storage
Use the search field in the top right of the terminal to filter displayed items. By default it searches by name, but you can prefix your search to change modes: search by mod name, by tooltip text, or by Ore Dictionary tag. Use the sort buttons on the left side to sort items by name, by ID, or by quantity, and toggle between ascending and descending order.
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Extract and Insert Items
Left-click an item in the terminal grid to pick up a stack (defaults to 64 items). Right-click to put items back one at a time. You can drag items across your inventory slots to split them evenly, just like vanilla inventory management. Items are pulled directly from and pushed to your network storage.
The Storage Terminal consumes 2 energy per tick from your Integrated Dynamics network, while the Crafting Job Terminal only consumes 1 energy per tick. Make sure your network has sufficient energy generation (Coal Generators or Energy Batteries) to keep terminals active.
The Storage Terminal
The Storage Terminal is the core part added by this mod. It provides a unified view of every item, fluid, and energy source connected to your Integrated Dynamics network. The interface features a 9-column grid with 5 visible rows and a scrollbar on the right side, similar to what you might expect from an AE2 or Refined Storage terminal but built on top of Integrated Dynamics infrastructure.
Channel System
The terminal supports Integrated Dynamics channels, visible as a channel selector on the left side of the GUI. Channels let you filter which inventories you are viewing. Setting the channel to -1 (the default) shows all items across every channel. Selecting a specific channel number only shows items from inventories assigned to that channel on the network. This is extremely useful for large networks where you want to separate your main storage from machine input/output buffers.
Search Modes
The search field supports four different search modes. The default mode searches by item display name. Mod search mode filters items by which mod added them. Tooltip search mode checks the item's tooltip text for matches. Dictionary search mode filters by Ore Dictionary tags, which is handy for finding all items tagged as "ingotCopper" or "plankWood" regardless of which mod added them.
The Crafting Tab
The Storage Terminal includes a dedicated Crafting tab that combines the item grid with a built-in 3x3 crafting grid. This lets you craft items directly using materials from your network storage without needing to pull them into your inventory first. The crafting grid appears alongside the storage view, so you can search for materials and place them into the grid in one interface.
Auto-Refill
The crafting grid features an auto-refill system with five modes. When set to "Storage", the grid automatically pulls replacement materials from network storage after you craft. "Player" mode refills from your personal inventory. "Storage then Player" and "Player then Storage" modes try one source first, then fall back to the other. "Disabled" turns off auto-refill entirely. This makes bulk crafting significantly faster since the grid replenishes itself after each craft.
Grid Balance
The Balance button (keyboard shortcut: B) evenly distributes items across occupied crafting grid slots. If you have 16 Planks in one slot and need 4 in each slot for a recipe, hitting balance will split them evenly. This saves time when setting up recipes that need equal amounts in multiple slots.
Clear Grid
You can clear the crafting grid in two ways. Pressing C returns items to your player inventory. Pressing Shift+C returns items to network storage instead. This gives you quick control over where leftover materials end up after crafting.
If you have JEI (Just Enough Items) installed alongside Integrated Terminals, you can transfer recipes directly from JEI into the terminal's crafting grid with the + button. The terminal will automatically pull the required items from network storage. JEI will highlight any missing ingredients in red. You can also enable JEI search sync, which keeps the terminal's search field synchronized with JEI's filter bar.
Sorting and Filtering
The terminal provides several sorting options through buttons on the left side of the GUI. For items, you can sort by Name (alphabetical), by Item ID (registry order), or by Quantity (stack count). For fluids, the same three sort types are available: fluid name, fluid ID, and fluid amount. Each sort can be toggled between ascending and descending order by clicking repeatedly. Left-click cycles through active descending, active ascending, and disabled. Right-click resets the sort to disabled.
There is also a crafting filter button that controls whether the terminal shows all items, only items in storage, or only craftable items. The "craftable" filter only works when Integrated Crafting is installed, as it shows items that can be auto-crafted through the crafting network. This is a quick way to see what your automation system can produce on demand.
Fluid and Energy Tabs
Beyond items, the Storage Terminal can display and manage fluids and energy. The Fluids tab shows all fluid types stored across your network with their amounts. You can interact with fluids by placing fluid containers (Buckets, tanks, cells) in the terminal's player inventory area and clicking to fill or drain them from network storage. Left-clicking picks up a fluid (defaulting to 100,000 mB, or 100 Buckets), and right-clicking puts fluid back in increments of 1,000 mB.
The Energy tab displays energy stored in batteries and machines on your network. Energy is shown as a fill bar with the amount displayed. You can interact with energy items (like chargeable tools) by moving energy between the network and items in your inventory. The default click amount is 100,000 FE with 1,000 FE increments on right-click. These quantities are all configurable.
Crafting Job Terminal
The second terminal type is the Crafting Job Terminal, which provides an interface for monitoring and managing autocrafting jobs. This terminal only becomes truly useful when Integrated Crafting is also installed. Without it, the terminal will display a tooltip warning that no crafting handlers are registered.
When Integrated Crafting is present, the Crafting Job Terminal shows all active and pending crafting jobs on the network. You can view crafting plans that show exactly what materials are needed, what is available, and what still needs to be crafted. The crafting job list updates every 1,000 milliseconds by default (configurable). This terminal consumes only 1 energy per tick, making it very cheap to run.
Decorative Blocks
Menril Glass
Menril Glass is a translucent decorative block with a hardness of 1.0. It is registered in the Ore Dictionary as "blockGlass", so it works in any recipe that calls for generic glass. It has a nice blue-tinted Menril aesthetic that pairs well with Integrated Dynamics cable networks and machinery.
Chorus Glass
Chorus Glass is another translucent decorative block, also tagged as "blockGlass" in the Ore Dictionary. Unlike Menril Glass, Chorus Glass has no collision box, meaning entities can pass through it. This makes it purely decorative or useful for creating walkthrough windows and visual barriers that do not block movement.
If you have a very large network with thousands of unique items, you may experience packet overflow errors when opening the terminal. The config option "terminalStoragePacketMaxInstances" (default: 1024) controls how many item entries are sent per packet. If you get disconnected when opening the terminal, try lowering this value in the config file.
Terminal Part Comparison
| Storage Terminal Energy Cost | 2 per tick |
| Crafting Job Terminal Energy Cost | 1 per tick |
| Item Click Quantity | 64 (configurable) |
| Item Right-Click Decrement | 1 (configurable) |
| Fluid Click Quantity | 100,000 mB (configurable) |
| Fluid Right-Click Decrement | 1,000 mB (configurable) |
| Energy Click Quantity | 100,000 FE (configurable) |
| Energy Right-Click Decrement | 1,000 FE (configurable) |
| Crafting Planner Threads | 2 (configurable) |
| Crafting Jobs Update Rate | 1,000 ms (configurable) |
Keyboard Shortcuts
Integrated Terminals registers several keyboard shortcuts that work inside the terminal GUI. All of these can be rebound in Minecraft's Controls menu under the "Integrated Terminals" category.
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Tab (Next Tab) | Shift+Tab (Prev Tab) | C (Clear to Player) | Shift+C (Clear to Storage) | B (Balance Grid) | |
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| Default Key | Tab | Shift+Tab | C | Shift+C | B |
| Function | Switch to next tab | Switch to previous tab | Clear grid to inventory | Clear grid to storage | Balance items in grid |
| Context | Terminal GUI | Terminal GUI | Crafting tab | Crafting tab | Crafting tab |
Configuration
Integrated Terminals offers several configurable options in its config file. The most commonly adjusted settings control how many items you pick up or put back per click in the terminal. By default, left-clicking an item picks up 64, and right-clicking decrements by 1. For fluids, you pick up 100,000 mB and decrement by 1,000 mB. For energy, you move 100,000 FE and decrement by 1,000 FE. All of these values can be changed live without restarting Minecraft.
The "terminalStoragePacketMaxInstances" setting (default 1024) limits how many storage entries are sent per network packet. Lower this if you experience connection issues on massive networks. The crafting planner uses 2 threads by default with multithreading enabled; you can adjust thread count or disable multithreading entirely if needed. The crafting jobs GUI update frequency defaults to 1,000 ms and can be lowered for more responsive updates at the cost of slightly more network traffic.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need Integrated Crafting for terminals to work?
No. The Storage Terminal works fully on its own for browsing and managing items, fluids, and energy. Integrated Crafting is only needed if you want autocrafting features (requesting items to be crafted automatically, viewing crafting plans, and using the Crafting Job Terminal). The built-in 3x3 crafting grid in the Crafting tab works without Integrated Crafting since it is manual crafting.
Why is my terminal showing no items even though I have connected storage?
Check three things: first, make sure the terminal part is attached to a cable that is part of your active network. Second, verify the network has enough energy to power the terminal (2 per tick for Storage Terminal). Third, check the channel selector at the top left of the GUI. If it is set to a specific channel number, switch it to -1 to view all channels.
How do I use the terminal with JEI?
With JEI installed, open any recipe in JEI while on the Crafting tab and click the + button to transfer the recipe into the crafting grid. The terminal will pull required items from network storage. Missing items are highlighted. You can also enable JEI search sync via a button in the crafting tab, which keeps your terminal search field and JEI filter bar synchronized.
What is the difference between the Storage Terminal and the Crafting Job Terminal?
The Storage Terminal is your main interface for browsing and managing items, fluids, and energy. It includes a crafting grid tab for manual crafting. The Crafting Job Terminal is a separate, specialized terminal solely for monitoring autocrafting jobs. It shows active crafting tasks, their progress, and what materials are needed. It requires Integrated Crafting to function and costs only 1 energy per tick.
Can I use multiple terminals on the same network?
Yes. You can place as many Storage Terminals and Crafting Job Terminals as you want on the same network. Each one provides independent access to the same shared storage. This is useful for having terminals in multiple rooms or at different workstations. Just keep in mind that each terminal consumes network energy while placed.
I get disconnected when opening my terminal on a large network. How do I fix this?
This is typically caused by packet overflow. Open the Integrated Terminals config file and lower the "terminalStoragePacketMaxInstances" value from its default of 1024 to something smaller like 512 or 256. This reduces the amount of data sent per packet at the cost of requiring more packets to sync the full inventory.