I also tried golems once (Use, Fill, Decanting), and I couldn't get them to work.
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I also tried golems once (Use, Fill, Decanting), and I couldn't get them to work.
Tales of the Fusion Noob
I finished my Processing Arrays yesterday and started a "dry run" to make Tritium and Deuterium. No explosions - good !
I hadn't realized how much fluid buffering is in the twenty(20) Processing Arrays, between the Input and Output Hatches and in the machines within the Arrays - 320 machines total !
Making 256 buckets of Tritium was relatively fast, but backpressuing enough Deutrium to make 256 buckets of excess took much, much longer. I've now gone through about 1B EU (10x full Energy Orbs) and have backpressured the system with Tritium and Deuterium, but not yet Hydrogen. By the time the entire system is backpressured, I figure I'll have quite a bit of Fusion fuel and intermediary fluids buffered.
Reactor-wise, I have most of it built and assembled. I'm just waiting on the last of the Chrome for the last LuV casings to get processed.
Overall, it's quite a grind. I have needed massive quantities of:
As for Redstone, I've had to mine over 10 full veins of the stuff. Bees have been awfully tempting for that much Redstone spam.
I started off trying to make Steel via EBF, but I needed those EBF cycles for Tungsten(steel) and Silicon. So, I started making Steel via Thaumcraft (Wax + Metallum from excess copper from centrifuging).
As much of a grind as it's been, it would have been even more of a grind without Thaumcraft.
I finished my Processing Arrays yesterday and started a "dry run" to make Tritium and Deuterium. No explosions - good !
I hadn't realized how much fluid buffering is in the twenty(20) Processing Arrays, between the Input and Output Hatches and in the machines within the Arrays - 320 machines total !
Making 256 buckets of Tritium was relatively fast, but backpressuing enough Deutrium to make 256 buckets of excess took much, much longer. I've now gone through about 1B EU (10x full Energy Orbs) and have backpressured the system with Tritium and Deuterium, but not yet Hydrogen. By the time the entire system is backpressured, I figure I'll have quite a bit of Fusion fuel and intermediary fluids buffered.
Reactor-wise, I have most of it built and assembled. I'm just waiting on the last of the Chrome for the last LuV casings to get processed.
Overall, it's quite a grind. I have needed massive quantities of:
- Redstone (for Ruby, Chrome, and Red Alloy)
- Tungstensteel (for Processing Arrays)
- Steel (LV machine casings and various bits)
- Iron (to make huge quantities of LV motors)
- Tin Wire
- Copper Wire
- Rubber
- etc.,.
As for Redstone, I've had to mine over 10 full veins of the stuff. Bees have been awfully tempting for that much Redstone spam.
I started off trying to make Steel via EBF, but I needed those EBF cycles for Tungsten(steel) and Silicon. So, I started making Steel via Thaumcraft (Wax + Metallum from excess copper from centrifuging).
As much of a grind as it's been, it would have been even more of a grind without Thaumcraft.
I had the same problem with golems so I was looking at this thread:
http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=11587
and there wvk states "You will have to supply water filled buckets, but is is easy enough to automate."
hopefully one of you smart guys can take a look at that and help me out with the "easy" part.
As it stands now I am using Dlur's suggestion of stacks at a time so I have built a box around the cauldron so I do not automatically pick up all the dust and then manually bucket the water into it as fast as I can until I cannot get water to go in there anymore then climb up to collect the fruits of my labor. That is working much faster than throwing 3 and refilling, but if I could automate it so that I just need to come back before it despawns in 5 mnutes that would be even better.
Not sure where a thirsty tank would fit in with golems there.
Makes me wonder if the glyph of siphoning would work though, it distributes liquids into adjacent containers. But no golems would be involved there.
I can check it, but I doubt it will work, since cauldron doesn't appear to be registered as inventory.
I'm of the same opinion. I wouldn't have even thought about it except dlur mentioned someone else got cauldrons filling in conjunction with thirsty tanks, one way or the other.
Care must be taken when distinguishing between vanilla cauldrons and Thaumcrat crucibles. Cauldrons are extremely difficult/secretive technique/impossible to automate. I'll believe in cauldron automation when I see it.
Crucibles are trivial. However, ores don't wash in crucibles.
The painful ore when GT6 limits ore-washing to 1 at a time is Redstone. One needs a *fair* amount of Redstone to make the 1st centrifuge.
Crucibles are trivial. However, ores don't wash in crucibles.
The painful ore when GT6 limits ore-washing to 1 at a time is Redstone. One needs a *fair* amount of Redstone to make the 1st centrifuge.
I'll double-check tonight when I get home, but I could swear I saw a vanilla cauldron being filled by a golem using a bucket. Maybe I mis-remembered though. I'm guessing Aiwendil knows where it is (just inside the door to the left when entering from the nether portal).
If you confirm, please document how the golem is either:
A) dropping the bucket
B) re-filling it
I could get a Use golem to fill the cauldron with a full bucket, but that's it. The golem was useless after that, no matter how I configured him. I did't try any shard upgrades like Entropy or Order, though.
I'm started out with automated alchemy to make alumentum and also transmute steel. I set everything up and product a bit of material, but then the alchemical construct will just stop drawing essentia from the alembics and I can't seem to figure out why. I've tried using a standard 1 essentia tube distance between the alembic and construct. I've tried butting them up against each other. No matter what I seem to do things hang.
STuck Steel:
Stuck Alumentum:
Stuck Alumentum:
Only thing I can think of is that at some point you crossed the streams with your essentia. If those pipes ever start drawing the wrong essentia, they can get stuck. So long as they never connect/interact though you should be fine.
Use essentia resonator on the construct and pipe. Maybe there's some rogue bit of essentia inside. It happens sometimes, even if pipes don't connect (I suppose that occasionally, maybe during a lag, the game will consider the 2 pipes as connected and some essentia will get in). It happened to me several times.
Ok, so on the steel transmutation one there was a single messis stuck in the essentia tube. I broke the tube and replaced it and for a few moments the construct ran full speed spitting out steel nuggets as fast as the furnace could break down the ordo. And then it just slowed to a crawl. The construct shows full suction, the ordo essentia tube is 127 suction and the messis tube going to the void jar is 30 suction. But both albemics on the furnace show 0 Untyped suction. The candelberries are still burning in the alchemical furnace, but SLOW. I'm still getting steel nuggets, but it's like 1 nugget per minute, when normal operation is 1 a second.
If I remove the messis void jar, it speeds up a bit, until the messis labeled albemic reaches 32 essentia points, then it stops completely. If I attach the void jar again the messis quickly drains out of the albemic, then it goes back to doing 1 steel nugget per minute again.
I think a bellows on the furnace might help, but I shouldn't really need one to get steady production speed, just faster production speed.
Also, on the alumentum construct I get 0 untyped suction everywhere I look. I ended up breaking the construct. Gonna go refill my wand and redo it, see if that fixes it.
Edit: Welp, I broke the construct I am trying to use for alumentum and then rebuilt it. It still has 0 untyped suction and doesn't work at all.
If I remove the messis void jar, it speeds up a bit, until the messis labeled albemic reaches 32 essentia points, then it stops completely. If I attach the void jar again the messis quickly drains out of the albemic, then it goes back to doing 1 steel nugget per minute again.
I think a bellows on the furnace might help, but I shouldn't really need one to get steady production speed, just faster production speed.
Also, on the alumentum construct I get 0 untyped suction everywhere I look. I ended up breaking the construct. Gonna go refill my wand and redo it, see if that fixes it.
Edit: Welp, I broke the construct I am trying to use for alumentum and then rebuilt it. It still has 0 untyped suction and doesn't work at all.
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are all your jars labelled? Alchemy seems to run much more slowly if you have unlabelled jars in use, I'm guessing its having to re-trace the suction route.
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One thing i changed in that setup was to put Messis on top... I am using 4 Alchemical furnaces to break the Candleberries, feeded with Alumentum to speed up the process even faster. Makes 1 Steel Ingot in 5-6s
Video after that I have the changes done, and you can see it in process.edit: In all honesty you have it similiar to mine. But even then it should not take a minute per nugget. Maybe 30s max per Ingot.
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