Basic Digitizer

ITEM PERIPHERAL

The basic digitizer turns physical item stacks into portable digital identifiers and restores them through its internal inventory.

Peripheral type

digitizer

Storage

Items

Failure style

Lua errors

Slots are one-based and default to slot 1. digitize() removes the complete stack; digitizeAmount() requires an exact positive amount no greater than the physical stack.

Inherited inventory API: size, list, getItemDetail, getItemLimit, pushItems, and pullItems are also available on this peripheral.

Round trip a partial stack

import { digitizerProvider } from "@siredvin/typed-peripheral-digitalitems/digitizer";

const digitizer = digitizerProvider.findOrThrow();
const id = digitizer.digitizeAmount(16, 1);
const info = digitizer.getIDInfo(id);
print(`${info.item.count} ${info.item.name}`);

const inserted = digitizer.rematerializeAmount(id, 8);
print(`Inserted ${inserted}`);

local digitizer = peripheral.find("digitizer")
assert(digitizer, "digitizer not attached")
local id = digitizer.digitizeAmount(16, 1)
local info = digitizer.getIDInfo(id)
print(('%d %s'):format(info.item.count, info.item.name))

local inserted = digitizer.rematerializeAmount(id, 8)
print("Inserted " .. inserted)

Errors and remaining items

All failures throw. Empty slots, non-positive amounts, requesting more than the physical or digital count, and unknown or decayed identifiers are errors.

rematerialize() requests the entire digital count, while rematerializeAmount() requests a chosen count. Both insert only what the internal inventory can accept and return the actual inserted item count. If space is limited, the uninserted remainder stays digital under the same ID.

Use the inherited inventory API to inspect and move physical stacks. For example, list() reports occupied slots and pullItems() can fill the digitizer from another attached inventory before digitization.

Peripheral methods

The reference below is generated from the published TypeScript interface.

getDecayEnabled()

Returns: Whether identifier decay is currently enabled by server configuration.

getDecayTicks()

Returns: The configured lifetime after creation or refresh, in server ticks.

digitize(slot)

Removes the complete stack from an internal inventory slot and digitizes it.

Parameter	Type	Description
slot?	number \| undefined	One-based inventory slot. Defaults to slot 1.

Returns: A new opaque 16-byte binary identifier.

Throws: A Lua error if the slot is empty or the slot is invalid.

rematerialize(id)

Rematerializes as much of an item identifier as the internal inventory can accept.

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Opaque binary identifier returned by a digitize method.

Returns: The number of items inserted. The identifier remains valid if items remain.

Throws: A Lua error if the identifier is unknown or has decayed.

digitizeAmount(amount, slot)

Removes and digitizes an exact number of items from an internal slot.

Parameter	Type	Description
amount	number	Positive number of items to remove.
slot?	number \| undefined	One-based inventory slot. Defaults to slot 1.

Returns: A new opaque 16-byte binary identifier.

Throws: A Lua error if amount is not positive, the slot is empty, or fewer items are present.

rematerializeAmount(id, amount)

Attempts to insert an exact requested portion into the internal inventory.

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Opaque binary item identifier.
amount	number	Positive number of items requested; it cannot exceed the stored count.

Returns: The number actually inserted, which may be lower when inventory space is limited.

Throws: A Lua error for an invalid or decayed identifier, invalid amount, or insufficient stored count.

refresh(id)

Resets an identifier's decay deadline to current game time plus getDecayTicks().

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Opaque binary item identifier.

Throws: A Lua error if the identifier is unknown or has decayed.

getIDInfo(id)

Reads the current item and timing metadata for an identifier.

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Opaque binary item identifier.

Returns: Identifier timing metadata and full item details.

Throws: A Lua error if the identifier is unknown or has decayed.

pushItems(toName, fromSlot, limit, toSlot)

Inherited from InventoryAPI.

Parameter	Type	Description
toName	string
fromSlot	number
limit?	number \| undefined
toSlot?	number \| undefined

pullItems(fromName, fromSlot, limit, toSlot)

Inherited from InventoryAPI.

Parameter	Type	Description
fromName	string
fromSlot	number
limit?	number \| undefined
toSlot?	number \| undefined

size()

Inherited from InventoryViewAPI.

list()

Inherited from InventoryViewAPI.

getItemDetail(slot)

Inherited from InventoryViewAPI.

Parameter	Type	Description
slot	number

getItemLimit(slot)

Inherited from InventoryViewAPI.

Parameter	Type	Description
slot	number

getConfiguration()

Inherited from ConfigurationAPI.

View TypeScript source