IMO, the first 6 machines should all be Autonomous Activators. Three making gravel, two making sand, and one making dust. Sift it and re-stock the hammers with Steve's Factory Manager. That way you're getting a steady supply of redstone, glowstone, gunpowder, bonemeal, diamonds, emeralds, lapis, and of course all the ores. I also smash ore gravel and ore sand with another AA so that everything is converted into dust for more efficient storage (and more efficient High Oven smelting).
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Thanks for the tips, I'm not at a point where I can automate everything yet but I'm sure, they'll be useful later.
Did you use a sync clone? Is it possible the heart is in the other clone? I've always wondered about that.
Yes, I have one set up but it was never necessary to use it before I lost the canister.
Have you tried clicking on the inventory slot of the canister? Sometimes items become invisible until you click on them.
Yes, I know and I did. I managed to get another canister from the city but it just went into the slot (didn't look like they stacked) and I also didn't regen more than the single, yellow heart with it, so I'll just give myself another one now. Btw, this isn't the first pack, heart canisters went missing in, I also lost 5 in "Running Red" at one point and had to spawn in new ones. The only difference was that I didn't regen all the yellow hearts when I got hurt but in "Crash Landing" I do.
Something in this pack randomly deletes items. Happens when you die and are resurrected via Sync or do a restore from AromaBackup or restart your world after a CtD. I've lost Heart Canisters/Levers/TiCo Tools/Safari Nets [filled]/etc. Randomly happens. Only solution that works is mentally keeping track of what's in your inventory and checking after death/restart.
Most recent experience was a CtD-restart via TiCo Tool clicking on a Tesseract. Deleted cow-filled Safari Net.
Yes, Tinkers and/or the pack seem to be kinda buggy - I did experience another bug today:
I died in the city and spawned in the blocks under the shell constructor (even though I have a chunk loader+creative power cell set up but I'm not sure if it's even working), so I loaded an old save and suddenly everything in my knapsack was gone. I then had to load the other save again and switch into creative to not die of suffocation. Later I loaded another old savegame from about 5 minutes ago and then my knapsack suddenly was completely gone. Not only that the contents of the knapsack don't get saved in a grave, they also seem to be stored in an extra file, not in the usual "saves"-folder, so pay attention, everyone when you're loading an old save while you have a knapsack equipped.
Edit:
I now have a treefarm set up but I'm having troubles with piping the sludge out. I'm using a fluiduct (with an activated lever, of course) that is connected to the left side of the harvester and an Extra Utilities drum but it doesn't pipe anything into the drum. Any guesses what the problem here could be? Isn't it possible to pipe sludge out from the sides or does the combination of fluiducts and drums simply not work?
Edit 2:
Nevermind, you can only pump into the drums from the top. *facepalm*