I'm fairly certain that your essentia system would be faster if you just streamlined it so that you have a single line of essentia buffers chained together and then your warded jars (labeled) hanging off that. It'd certainly be less piping and the aspects travel a certain distance "per tick" - so a shorter line means faster distillation. What I do is basically that, but I hang 2 jars off each buffer (one under, one hanging off a single tube backwards) for each aspect. At the end of the line rather than breaking down essentia overflow, I simply just send it to a crystalizer which then just shoves it in a drawer system.
The input is totally automated - I have set up a few eucladaisy flowers to spawn random wisp essences and a golem to chuck them into the furnace input. I also feed all mana bean and natural wisp drops from my monster farm into the system via magic mirror. If I find myself running low on a particular aspect, I just grab a stack or two from the drawer overflow and shove it back into the system - but man, I really have to be making a lot of one thing or doing an absurd runic shield enchantment to need more than 128 pts of any particular aspect at one go. I also have a secondary input that runs everything through a centrifuge if I want to break down the aspect into it's components. I have something stupid like 6,500 auram crystalized in my drawer right now because of this setup ^_^
Personally, I don't find automatically recycling anything down to primals (or any aspect really) to be an advantage in your main system. The essentia crystalizer is just so vastly superior because it's fast, the outputs can be stored as item stacks and you can easily recycle it back into jars in just a few seconds, either directly or via a centrifuge.
Technically I could remove the warded jars from my system and replace them with filtered tubes and reservoirs, but daaaaamn. That's a lot of effort to just go from 128 pts of stored essentia (not counting what I got in drawers) to 256. I guess that's where my natural lazy limit comes in. I'd rather breed bees or trees... and that's saying a lot.
Yeah, i was not going for efficiency. Otherwise i would have used the system described in the "A Thaumaturge's Guide to Laying Pipe" were you have 4 jars per buffer. However the interesting thing of these system is not the distribution or recycling, it is that the Thaumatorium is automated without having to specialize it since it can pull essentia from the whole system it is fast for things that require less than 3 aspects. Yeah the recycling is useless if you got fully automated wisp/mana farms but for a starting thaumaturge, being able to get large quantities of instrumentum without having to burn lots of non stackable tools is a pretty good option, specially in modpacks without infinite resources as this one.
In other packs i just used wisp farm system that would route to dedicated furnaces and would crystallize the rest, the system was fully automatic and would always keep 128 of every aspect using computercraft, i usually created this for my friend/slash partner than did the whole magic stuff and he just gave me the items lol. This is the first time for me going really into magic mods.
The point of this project for me was mainly to learn and do something different. I chose rocsflight designed over the simplified one mostly for looks.
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