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# Changelog ## 1.10.0 — 2026-07-28 - The tablet now boots to a **Home screen** (the start of the tablet "OS"): a launcher with the **Signals** app — today's whole toggle grid — as its first program, with more to come. Opening a held tablet resumes whatever you had open last; the new house button (top-left) takes you Home. - The things on the grid are now called **signals** everywhere ("Add Signal", "New Signal", ...) — "app" now means the programs on the launcher. Purely naming: your configured tablets carry over untouched. - Placed, mounted, and merged tablets get the same Home screen on their in-world displays: they boot to the launcher (tap the Signals tile to open your grid), and **tapping the bezel ring** on a running screen takes it back Home. Existing placed tablets show the launcher after updating — your signals are one tap away, exactly as you left them. Wrench gestures are unchanged. - The launcher carries the tablet's standard controls — theme picker, overlay pin, merge link, and grid/list view — so device settings live on the Home screen. Tapping a kiosk's bezel while it shows the launcher opens that menu. - **Your Home screen is yours**: the **App Store** — the permanent last tile on every Home screen — shelves every program with a description and a Get/Remove button; "getting" an app puts its tile on that tablet's Home. Right-click a Home tile to remove it. New tablets start with just Signals. The Home screen also honors the grid/list toggle now. - **Placed screens follow your navigation**: opening an app (or going Home) in a placed tablet's GUI switches the wall screen to match — the kiosk and the menu always show the same thing. - A placed tablet showing the **Calculator** displays its live tape on the wall — your own running sum, big on the glass. - New app: **Clock** — alarms (daily, with a toggle per alarm), a world clock with every real timezone (searchable), a countdown timer, and a stopwatch. Alarms and timers ring even with the tablet closed — a chime plus an on-screen note — and keep real wall-clock time across sessions. A placed tablet showing the Clock becomes a wall clock: big digital time and date on the screen, merged walls included. - New app: **Calculator** — a proper four-function calculator with click buttons and full keyboard entry. It remembers where you were if you close it mid-sum. - New app: **Gauges** — live dials that LISTEN on Redstone Link frequencies and show the received signal strength, the reverse of what Signals does. Name each dial, pick its channel (same two-item frequencies) and color. Dials work on the held screen, on placed tablets (the block hears what a real link at that spot would), and on the pinned overlay. - The **overlay pin is now per-app** — the pin button pins whatever screen you're on: Clock pins a clock overlay, Gauges a live dial HUD (pin a gauges tablet and you have a vehicle dashboard while driving), Calculator a working mini pad, and the launcher pins an app dock — one click on the dock opens that app. Signals pins work exactly as before, and existing pins carry over. - **Signal links** — signals can now drive other signals: in the edit screen, the new **Links** button lists your other signals; set each one to *turn ON*, *turn OFF*, or *follow* (copy the tapped signal's new state). Tapping the source anywhere — GUI, pinned overlay, or a placed screen — drives its targets too, chains included (loops are safe). Timer signals fire their pulse when linked-on; linked tiles wear a small chain glyph. A signal with links doesn't even need a frequency — make pure scene master buttons that only drive other signals. - **Follow mode** — power a tablet on its Swivel Mount with redstone and the screen tracks the nearest player, enchanting-table-book style, gliding smoothly. Cut the power and it stays exactly where it's pointing — aim it by walking, freeze it with a lever. Wrench gestures still work while powered. - **Addon API**: other mods can now register their own tablet programs — each shows up in the App Store with its name, icon, and description, joins Home rosters, opens its screen from tiles and placed-tablet taps, and can supply a pinned-overlay pane and a custom face for placed screens. Mod developers: see the `com.modpack.linktablet.api` package (both the program and its client half register through events on your own mod bus). - Placed-screen tiles no longer balloon on sparse tablets: one to three signals now lay out at the four-signal tile size, **centered on the glass** (a lone tile is a quarter-sized icon in the middle, not a wall-to-wall poster). Tapping the empty glass around them opens the GUI. - Note for servers: the network protocol grew (renamed payloads plus the new gauges traffic), so servers and clients need to update together — this version does not pair with 1.9.x. Worlds and tablet data are unaffected. ## 1.9.1 — 2026-07-26 - The app **icon slot now accepts JEI/EMI drags**: drag any item from the ingredient panel onto the icon button in the edit screen to set it as the app's custom icon — same as the frequency slots have worked since 1.7.0, nothing is consumed. (EMI also highlights the icon slot while dragging.) - Client-only change, no new content — 1.9.1 pairs with 1.9.0 servers and clients. ## 1.9.0 — 2026-07-25 - The Link Tablet is now **manufactured, not crafted**: build a Tablet Case from brass sheets, then run it down a Deployer line — logic board, clockwork cell, quartz display last — Create sequenced assembly, shown step-by-step in JEI/EMI. The old crafting-table recipe is gone; the three components absorb its ingredients, so the total cost is about the same. - The in-progress tablet **visibly gains its parts** on the belt: the logic board appears after the first Deployer, the clockwork cell after the second — the screen goes on last. - New items: Tablet Case, Link Logic Board (redstone link + linked controller + electron tube), Quartz Display (rose quartz + tinted glass), Clockwork Cell (iron nugget + rose quartz + cogwheel), and the in-progress Incomplete Link Tablet. - Note for servers: this version adds items, so servers and clients need to update together — it does not pair with 1.8.x. ## 1.8.1 — 2026-07-22 - The Swivel Mount is now **placeable on its own**: put the empty stand on any floor, wall, or ceiling, then right-click it with a tablet to mount the tablet on it — it aims at you automatically. Using the mount item directly on an already-placed tablet still works exactly like before. - Tablets and stands now come apart **separately**, so you can swap tablets between fixed consoles: sneak + right-click (empty hand) on the tablet takes just the tablet and leaves the stand in place; sneak-wrench the bezel does the same. Grabbing or sneak-wrenching the **stand** underneath still takes both, and breaking the block still drops both. Sneak-wrench on the glass rotates the screen content, unchanged. - Note for servers: 1.8.1 adds a block, so servers and clients need to update together — 1.8.1 does not pair with 1.8.0. ## 1.8.0 — 2026-07-21 - New item: the **Swivel Mount** — craft it from brass sheets and an iron nugget, then use it on any placed tablet to put it on a ball-joint stand. Wrench the mounted tablet (anywhere) and it aims itself straight at your eyes — angle it on a desk, a dashboard, or the cockpit of whatever you're building. Wrench the bezel instead to flip the mounted tablet between portrait and landscape — on floors and ceilings too, not just walls — and sneak-wrench the glass to rotate the screen content, same as a flat tablet. Taps and slider drags work on the angled glass exactly like a flat tablet, and the boxy block-selection outline stays out of the way. Sneak + right-click (or sneak-wrench off the glass, or break it) returns both the tablet and the mount. Mounted tablets stay standalone — they never merge into multiblock screens. - Tablets are nameable: rename one on an anvil and the tablet GUI (and the pinned overlay's title bar) wears that name instead of "Link Tablet". The name survives placing, breaking, and picking the tablet back up. Perfect for telling "Factory Master" apart from "Barn Door Remote". - Note for servers: no protocol change — 1.8.0 pairs with 1.7.x. ## 1.7.1 — 2026-07-21 - Fixed a minor screen issue. ## 1.7.0 — 2026-07-21 - Multiblock screens: place tablets side by side (same wall, floor, or ceiling — new tablets auto-adopt their neighbor's orientation, so just slap them down) and they merge into one large display, up to 4 wide by 3 tall. It renders as ONE continuous screen: a single glass panel covering the whole surface, a case-colored bezel frame around it (dye the lead tablet and the whole frame dyes), and no per-block seams or outlines. The lead (top-left) tablet's apps spread across the big screen at bigger tiles; taps and slider drags work anywhere on it, list rows run its full width, and the whole wall lights up together. Wrench anywhere on the glass to rotate the content — square surfaces turn in quarter steps, wide ones flip upside down. Merging is always safe: every tablet keeps its own apps dormant and gets them back the moment it's split off (sneak-wrench or break a member to restructure). Bigger surfaces hold more apps — 32 per member tablet. - Pinned tablet overlay (requested by the tester crew): a pin button in the tablet GUI keeps a floating mini-tablet on your screen while you play — live app rows on the HUD, draggable, and it remembers its spot and pin across sessions. Press the new "Use Pinned Tablet" key (default B, rebindable) to free your mouse chat-style and tap apps, drag sliders, or hold buttons without opening anything; it's also clickable with the normal cursor over your inventory, chat, or any other screen. Right-click a row to jump into the full tablet GUI. Pinned placed tablets dim out of edit range; pinned carried tablets follow the item around your inventory. - New "Open Tablet" keybind (default unbound): opens the tablet GUI from anywhere — hand first, then anywhere in your inventory. - Notes and the pinned mini-tablet now stay out of the way on settings menus (vanilla options, Sodium, any mod's config screen), the pause menu, and other screens where they don't belong. They keep working everywhere they're useful: the tablet, inventories and other containers, chat, the JEI/EMI recipe browsers, and the HUD. - JEI/EMI support: drag an item straight from the ingredient list onto a frequency slot in the app editor — no need to own the item. - Side-by-side without merging: placed tablets have a new chain-link button in their screen header. Click it on a merged surface to break the whole thing back into independent tablets (they won't re-merge), or on a single tablet to keep it standalone before building next to it. Click again to let a tablet rejoin its neighbors. - Note for servers: the network protocol changed — these clients and servers don't pair with 1.6.0 or older. ## 1.6.0 — 2026-07-19 - Per-app notes (requested by the tester crew): every app can carry a free-text note, opened from a small note glyph on its tile or row. Notes open as floating windows — drag them by the title bar, open several at once, and they stay with you: over the tablet, over your inventory or any other screen (fully editable there), and as read-only panels on your HUD while you play. A note closes only via its own X; ESC just leaves whatever screen you're on. - New "Timer" app type (requested by migdzy): tap it and it transmits for a set time — 0.1s to 30s, dialed in on a seconds+ticks slider — then switches off by itself. Tapping again restarts the clock. Timer taps on a placed tablet swing your arm like a real button, and the tile glows for as long as the pulse runs. - Note for servers: the network protocol changed — 1.6.0 clients and servers don't pair with 1.5.x or older. ## 1.5.3 — 2026-07-17 - The tablet is now also listed in the vanilla Redstone creative tab — the mod's own single-item tab was easy to miss. ## 1.5.2 — 2026-07-17 - Grid tiles now match the list rows' look on both the GUI and the placed screen: a themed plaque button with the app color inset as a chip behind the icon, instead of the color flooding the whole tile. The densest placed-screen grids (13+ apps portrait) keep the classic full-color pips — chips that small would crowd out the icons. - Powered apps on placed tablets get a faint glowing outline around their tile, echoing the GUI's accent border. - Slider tiles show their level as a stack-count style number on the chip's corner, and it now always draws on top — block icons could previously cover it on both the GUI and the placed screen. - New theme: "Avionics" — deep navy panels, steel-blue frames, and a cyan accent, styled after a flight computer (requested by PurpleFox). - Frequencies can now use just one item: stage a single item in either slot and hit Add — matching Create's own links, where the second slot may stay empty (requested by migdzy). One-item frequencies render their lone item centered on the app tile. - Note for servers: the network protocol version changed — 1.5.2 clients and servers don't pair with 1.5.1 or older. ## 1.5.1 — 2026-07-16 - The placed tablet's screen now matches the 1.5.0 GUI look: app tiles and list rows render as beveled plaques, a theme-colored frame runs around the glass, and slider bars sit in recessed grooves. Held tablets get the same treatment. On the densest grids the accents step aside automatically (tiles that small would just shimmer). - Pure visual change — no network protocol change, so 1.5.1 clients and servers pair freely with 1.5.0. ## 1.5.0 — 2026-07-16 - Create-style UI overhaul: the tablet home screen, app editor, and item picker are rebuilt in the Stock Keeper's visual language — themed canvas inside wooden rail frames, parchment plaques for tiles, rows, and titles, chamfered banner buttons, and inset ink-well text fields. Every layout, click target, and drag works exactly as before; the placed tablet's in-world screen is untouched. - New theme: "Parchment" — cream surfaces, dark-brown text, and a Create-blue accent, made for the new chrome. - Sliders now show their numeric signal level everywhere they render: GUI list rows and both placed-screen layouts join the grid tile's readout (bars and knobs track the slider's range; the number is always the absolute 0–15 level). - Sliders can be limited to a min/max range: in the app editor, the slider type's strength row becomes a "Range" row with two draggable knobs. The slider then travels only between those levels — a minimum above 0 means the signal never fully turns off (set the minimum to 0 to keep an off position). Existing sliders keep the full 0–15 range. - Note for servers: the network protocol version changed — 1.5.0 clients and servers don't pair with 1.4.0. ## 1.4.0 — 2026-07-16 - Frequencies now carry the full item — including its data components — so component-based frequency items (Create Unique Cards, Frequency Create cards, dyed items, renamed items with dyed color) work as distinct channels, exactly matching what Create's own Redstone Links distinguish. Old tablets load seamlessly and upgrade on save. - New app type: Slider. The transmitted signal follows the slider position, 0 (off) to 15 — drag it live on the tablet GUI (grid tiles get a value bar, list rows a wide track). On a placed tablet's screen, click-and-slide: hold right-click on the slider's tile and sweep your crosshair — the value tracks the crosshair exactly and keeps following even past the tablet's edge. Pick the type in the app editor (click the Type row to cycle Toggle → Hold → Slider); the strength slider becomes the initial value and allows 0. - The app editor now includes your real inventory with vanilla drag mechanics: pick an item up and drop it on the red/blue frequency slots (they take a copy — nothing is consumed), or shift-click it in. Components ride along, so frequency cards work naturally. The all-items search picker is still there as an overlay for items you don't carry. - Create wrench support on placed tablets: wrench the screen glass to rotate the screen content 90° — tiles, labels, and tap-to-toggle all follow. Wrench the bezel (or any edge) to rotate the tablet itself: floor/ceiling tablets spin on their support, wall tablets physically flip portrait ↔ landscape. Sneak+wrench picks the tablet up with everything intact. - Wash a dyed case back to default: dunk the tablet in a water cauldron, or toss it into an encased fan's washing stream (apps, theme, and everything else survive — only the dye comes off). - App names no longer get cut off: GUI labels ellipsize (hover a tile for the full name) and the placed screen's labels shrink to fit before truncating. - Fixed: typing in the app editor's name field could trigger the inventory key — an 'e' closed the menu mid-word and the rest of the keystrokes moved the player. Text fields now own the keyboard while focused (ESC still exits). - Note for servers: the network protocol version changed — 1.4.0 clients and servers must both be updated. ## 1.3.2 — 2026-07-16 - Held momentary buttons now light up on a placed tablet's screen for everyone nearby — including presses made through the GUI, and on your own tablet's screen in first person. - Fixed: clicking a momentary app faster than a server tick could produce no signal at all; every press now transmits a short minimum pulse. - Fixed: holding a momentary button on a placed tablet made the character punch the tablet repeatedly. ## 1.3.1 — 2026-07-16 - Dynamic app tiles on the physical screen: the pip grid now sizes itself to the app count — one app fills the whole glass, two split it, and so on, converging on the old 4x5 grid at 17+ apps. Big tiles (up to 4 apps) also show the app's name under its icon, outlined so it stays readable on bright tile colors. Tap-to-toggle follows the new layout exactly. - The physical screen's list mode now shows each app's name between its icon chip and switch. - Momentary apps are now pressable directly on a placed tablet's screen: hold right-click on the button to transmit, let go to stop (the signal drops within about half a second of release). - Right-click any Redstone Link (or anything with a link frequency, like elevator contacts) while holding the tablet: the app editor opens with that link's frequency pre-filled and a name suggested — just hit Save. If an app already has that frequency, the editor opens on it instead of duplicating. - Themes: a new palette button in the tablet GUI (next to rearrange) picks one of six UI themes — Dark (the classic), Light, AMOLED, Brass, Terminal, and PurpleFox (named for the player who suggested it and helped test). The theme is stored per tablet and recolors the GUI, the edit screen, and the physical screen for everyone. - Ponder: the tablet now has a Ponder scene (hold W over the item) showing a mounted tablet toggling a Redstone Link and lamp, plus the new link-to-app shortcut. - Note for servers: the network protocol version changed — 1.3.0 clients and servers must both be updated. ## 1.2.1 — 2026-07-15 - Fixed a crash ("Not building!") when rendering tablet screens whose app icons are items with special render types (common with modded icons): screen quads and item icons are now drawn in separate passes. ## 1.2.0 — 2026-07-15 - Live tablet screens: both the held tablet and the placed tablet now render a real mini app grid on their physical screens — one colored pip per app (4x5, first 20), glowing when active, hollow for momentary apps. Each tablet remembers the layout you last used in its GUI: in list mode the physical screen shows mini toggle-switch rows (first 5 apps) instead. - Tap-to-toggle: clicking an app's pip directly on a placed tablet's screen toggles that app on the spot — no GUI needed. Clicking anywhere else on the tablet still opens the full GUI. - The held tablet's lit screen now uses the same bright screen texture as the placed tablet, and empty tablets show the same flat glass as in-use ones (in the world; the inventory icon is unchanged). - App reordering: a new rearrange button in the tablet's title bar enters a drag-to-rearrange mode (in both grid and list view) — taps stop toggling, apps reflow live as you drag, and the order syncs and persists. Works on held and placed tablets. - Fixed: releasing a momentary app could leave its signal stuck on if the app list changed (app removed/reordered) while the button was held. ## 1.1.1 — 2026-07-15 - Recipe rework: the tablet is now crafted from 4 brass sheets, 2 redstone links, tinted glass (screen), an electron tube, and a linked controller at the core — no more nether stars. Fits Create's brass-age progression. ## 1.1.0 — 2026-07-15 - Placeable tablet: sneak + right-click any surface to mount the tablet on walls, floors, or ceilings. Right-click to use the same GUI; the mounted tablet transmits from its own position while the chunk is loaded. Its screen switches on (emissive, light level 7) whenever any app is active. Sneak + right-click with an empty hand picks it back up — apps and case color survive placing, breaking, and support loss. - Dyed cases: craft the tablet with any dye (shapeless) to color its case — back, edges, and front bezel ring. Apps are preserved; re-dye anytime. All 16 colors. - Momentary apps: a per-app "Momentary" setting makes the app transmit only while the button is held down (doorbells, dispensers). Held state is transient and server-side, so a disconnect can never leave a signal stuck on. Momentary apps show a hollow ring pip in grid view and a push button in list view. - Per-app signal strength (1-15) via a slider in the edit screen; when multiple apps drive the same frequency, the strongest signal wins, like stacked Redstone Links. - Edit screen layout rework: two columns, and the color picker is now a compact dropdown swatch button instead of an always-visible grid. - UI sounds throughout the tablet: open/close, toggle clicks (distinct on/off pitch), save chime, remove sound, frequency chip ticks, view-mode switch. Nearby players hear a faint click when someone toggles an app. ## 1.0.0 — 2026-07-14 Initial release. - Link Tablet item: craftable handheld (4 Redstone Links + 4 Nether Stars + Linked Controller). - App-style GUI: up to 32 named on/off apps per tablet, each with color, optional item icon, and persistent toggle state. - Scenes: up to 8 Redstone Link frequencies per app, all toggled together. - Transmits on Create's Redstone Link network from the player's position while the tablet is in inventory (signal strength 15, Linked Controller semantics). - Grid and list GUI layouts with a per-player toggle. - Tablet screen lights up (emissive) while the GUI is open; solid back with camera + LED. - Full multiplayer support (server-authoritative app edits, per-player transmitters).