I've got a question about endoflame / mana spreader setup.. All and any info I can find on this subject says a mana spreader can only support up to 8 endoflames (or less, according to some), and that's only if the mana pool is placed right next to the mana spreader. I've got 12 endoflames hooked up to one mana spreader right now (I'll try more endoflames as soon as I get them made), drinking from a supply of coal, and the mana spreaders seem to be keeping up with no trouble. I don't see any mana spreader buffs in the patch notes for botania, and the wikis don't provide a lot of numbers.
Am I using the endoflames inefficiently in some way, or has there been some buff? I noticed that all 12 endoflames activate if I drop a single piece of coal in the middle of the bunch, and that they all stay burning for 40 seconds. But, if I drop a bunch of 40 coal, it'll take 2 minutes until the stack is consumed, burning one coal per 3 seconds. The flowers don't show any mana in their internal storage at all during this (so they're not getting backed up), and the mana spreader is easily keeping up with the pace, shooting more than one burst per second into the adjacent mana pool. It seems to generate mana at a pretty good pace.. I guess I could try to saturate the single mana spreader with endoflames and then measure the time it takes to fill a mana pool.
Edit: 13 seems to be the limit. With 14 endoflames, the mana spreader fills a little too quickly to keep up.