Wire Spools

Wire Spools are items used to connect Redwire Posts and Bundled Cable Posts.

Contents
Obtaining Crafting Recipes Redwire Spool Bundled Cable Spool Usage Data Itemstack Data History

Obtaining

Crafting Recipes

Redwire Spool

Recipe Type	Ingredients	Output	Example
Shaped Crafting	4x Iron Ingot 3x Red Alloy Wire 4x Stick	1x Redwire Spool

Bundled Cable Spool

Recipe Type	Ingredients	Output	Example
Shaped Crafting	4x Iron Ingot 3x Bundled Network Cable 4x Stick	1x Bundled Cable Spool

Usage

Using a Wire Spool on a block of the appropriate type will store the block's position in the spool itemstack; using the spool on a second post block of the appropriate type will clear the itemstack's data and connect the two blocks.

Bundled Cable Posts (left) and Redwire Posts that have been connected by wire spools

Players cannot place blocks where the hanging wires are, and the hanging wires cannot be placed where blocks are.

There is a maximum distance at which wire posts can be connected to each other; attempting to connect blocks farther apart than this distance will fail, and half-formed connections will be cancelled if the player holding the item moves too far away from the wire post. This distance can be set in the Server Config.

The blocks that the spools are allowed to connect are determined by block tags:

Spool Item	Block Tag	Matching Blocks
Redwire Spool	morered:redwire_posts	Redwire Posts
Bundled Cable Spool	morered:bundled_cable_posts	Bundled Cable Posts

Data

Item	Item ID	Localization Key
Redwire Spool	morered:redwire_spool	item.morered.redwire_spool
Bundled Cable Spool	morered:bundled_cable_spool	item.morered.bundled_cable_spool

Item Properties	Value
Stack Limit	1
Durability	64

Item Tags
None

Itemstack Data

<root>
{
	"last_post_pos": {"X": int, "Y": int, "Z": int}
}

Data Field	Format	Description
"last_post_pos"	Compound with X, Y, and Z int fields	Position of the block the spool item is being used to form a connection for. When using the spool on a pair of blocks, this is set when the first block is activated, and cleared when the second block is activated (or when the player moves too far away from the first block).

History

Version	Changelog
1.16.5-2.1.0.0	Redwire Spools' recipe now uses Red Alloy Wires as crafting material instead of Red Alloy Ingots
1.16.3-2.0.1.0	Red Alloy Ingots are now part of the "forge:ingots/redstone_alloy" item tag used by several other mods; More Red's recipes have changed to use this tag. The old "forge:ingots/red_alloy" tag remains, but should be considered deprecated in favor of the other tag
1.16.3-2.0.0.0	More Red recipes now use tag ingredients instead of specific items in more places Trying to place a block where a redstone wire post wire is is now denied on the client in addition to the server (this will help prevent "phantom blocks" in high-latency situations)
1.15.2-1.0.1.0	Added Redwire Spools to game