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I'm trying to automate bauxite. The export bus will place bauxite in the electrolyzer. But how do I get empty cells in there?

Incorrect. I wasn't talking about the output from the boiler to the liquiduct. I was talking about liquiduct to consumer. There, the limit appears to be 160 mB/tick, so you need to hook up 5 liquiducts to the consumer in order to get all the steam into the consumer.

At first, I thought that the MFR tree farm was cool. Decent productivity without fertilizer, but insanely fast with fertilizer. When I found out that animal's poop becomes fertilizer--well, now it's completely overpowered. I have 5 boilers now and am not even close to over taxing the capability...

This is really annoying. The crafting monitor will not tell you what's wrong, but it just simply won't craft. In my case, the problem was relatively simple--I had an export bus hooked up to a boiler set to autocraft planks from logs. But this meant that it was continuously crafting planks. Even...

yeah, connecting a liquiduct to each side of a steam consumer solves the problem. But it also means that it's impossible to generate a 512 eu/t line directly from steam. You have to use industrial steam engines first. Because to make 512 eu/tick, you need over 1000 mB/tick, which just can't be...

I had been using the 18 industrial steam engine layout before but just discovered this thread and realized that I can covert directly to either EU or MJ without needing engines first. I don't get why I'm only getting 160 mB/tick from this setup: It's the same setup I was using to get the...

Get both. Sometimes you not only do you not need silk touch, you don't want silk touch (e.g., I don't want leaves, I want saplings).

It's all personal. We restart when we have to. E.g., when our server goes down. Or when we are forced to because of 1.5 or 1.6 We were forced to restart because our old server company abandoned us. I hated it at first because I did so much work on my old base. But it was funner than I thought...

For items that you only want one or two of, I still put them in AE, simply because I want to be able to use my wireless terminal to access my stuff. To avoid wasting space on those items, you can keep a separate ME chest with a 1k storage cell. Functionally equivalent to a double chest, but with...

I know a solid fuel boiler can pull fuel directly from a chest sitting next to the firebox. Can it pull fuel from a barrel sitting next to the firebox?

I had the same problem with storage units the other day. The problem did not show up on the crafting monitor. But it turns out that the quartz cutting knife stored in AE was out of uses. Because it actually exists in AE, it doesn't show up as missing. But it can't be used, so it can't make...

I don't. Periodically (maybe once a week), I'll do a cursory check for anomalies. Things like a 16k with all 63 types, but only using 4 to 5k. If I see something like that, I'll make a 4k, and put that stuff there. Or I'll make a 1k and put a bunch of the low count items (e.g., you're tree...

Curious, since cobble is probably the most plentiful material in the game, why would you ever want to automatically craft a furnace when you get 8 cobble?

i disagree. 1K isn't nearly big enough to start with. The only thing we put in AE when we first built it was ingots, and it was easily 3k worth. And that was just 2 days worth of turtle quarrying. If pressed for space, you can start with 4k and combine into 16k later.

1k doesn't really store nearly enough. Personally, I use 16k for quarries. When they get full of item types, they're usually at about 10k of the 16k, so way too much for even 4k. The hard part about AE is getting started because you're short on quartz. Once you get a few quarries running...

64k is pretty useless unless you're stockpiling common stuff like cobble. But even then: 1) there's no need to stockpile common items; 2) it's much more cost efficient to put those materials in barrels and attach a storage bus to them.

Is that in 1.4.7? Or is it 1.5+?

A 16x16 SC tree farm can easily maintain 3 full size HP boilers on liquid alone. (Plus two more solid fueled boilers from planks). Yes, you're going to need some kind of energy source to get your sapling ---> biofuel setup going. And it will start slowly. My suggestion, use whatever power you...

Question about Power converters. I assume that each side of the bridge is separate, right? So I can attach a 128 EU line to the north side and a 128 EU line to the west side and each has their own 128 EU? Trying to connect both a blast furnace and an electrolyzer and don't want them on the...

How do you re-orient an industrial steam engine? Here's my problem. I'm trying to lay down the steam engines in a row. I did this on my last world and it worked fine. I'm on a new server and I try it and I get this: Using a wrench or a crescent hammer turns it to face the other engine. I...