PipesReborn

Redstone-powered glass pipes that move and sort items between containers.

PipesReborn is a standalone, modernised revival of CraftBook 3's classic pipes mechanic, rebuilt from the ground up for Paper 26.2. Place a sticky piston against a chest, run a line of glass, and pulse it with redstone — items flood through the glass and drop into the container at the other end. Sorting is done with shelves, so there are no signs to place and nothing to type.

No WorldEdit. No CraftBook. No dependencies. Just drop in the jar and build.

Features

• Glass-pipe item transport — sticky pistons pull from containers, glass carries the items, pistons and droppers push them out the other end.
• Shelf filtering — mount a shelf on a pipe piston and place items on it to sort by material type. A diamond on the shelf passes every diamond, ignoring enchantments and NBT. Each shelf holds up to three items, so a single shelf can whitelist three materials at once.
• Coloured routing — stained glass only connects to the same colour, so you can run separate lines side by side.
• Furnace & jukebox aware — pull a furnace's finished result, or feed a jukebox a disc.
• Server-friendly — a hard cap on network size and an optional per-piston cooldown keep even large builds from costing tick time.
• Developer API — a small set of pipe events to listen to, plus an event you can fire to drive a pipe from your own plugin.

How it works

Each piston's flat face touches its chest; glass links the backs. Power the sticky piston (a lever or button works) and one stack moves. It's that simple — and it scales up to long, branching, multi-output sorting systems.

Full build instructions, filtering guide, and configuration reference are in the wiki.

Requirements

• Paper 26.2 (Purpur works too). Not Spigot/Bukkit, not Folia.
• Java 25.

Commands & permissions

Building and using pipes needs no permission — anyone who can place the blocks can build one.

Links

• Wiki / documentation: https://codeberg.org/Baktus79/PipesReborn/wiki
• Source code: https://codeberg.org/Baktus79/PipesReborn

Credits & licence

PipesReborn is derived from CraftBook (© sk89q and contributors) and is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Maintained by Baktus_79.