A bit of help with RP2 sorters please?

[fusiomax]

So I have a basic sorting system, ores go to be macerated, ones that can't be macerated go to the furnaces, that all works fine.

Now the problem I have is with the default route. I have selected the default route option and made it white, set a white route, and that stuff just doesn't get pulled out of the chest. anyone know why?

If there is any other information that would help I will let you know, for the moment here is my basic set up (not complete and very messy):

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If I'm just derping on the colours let me know, I think I have them right, but I'm colour-blind and tend to derp this stuff up.

Thanks for your help

 

[Bickers]

try only painting the pipe were it connects to the inventory

 

[b0bst3r]

What's on the end of the white pipe?

 

[fusiomax]

try only painting the pipe were it connects to the inventory

I did this and it worked, but that isn't really going to work as I have the white path go to a number of different chests (barrels actually if that matters) what I will do for the moment is have it go to a chest and have a filter pull from the chest sending it on to the barrels.

I would still like to know why this doesn't seem to work, I'm sure it used to.

EDIT: bob (can't see full name it's behind this edit window) I have it go to a wall of barrels, I figured it would auto sort to a free barrel or to one that already contains the same materials.

 

[b0bst3r]

Barrel input is the top ONLY is that where the tube goes?

 

[Bickers]

for barrels pipes dont need paint my barrel sorting system only has paint near chests just make sure the chests are on same pipe as the barrels and there is a restriction tube before them

 

[fusiomax]

Barrel input is the top ONLY is that where the tube goes?

Yes I have them going to the top of barrels.

for barrels pipes dont need paint my barrel sorting system only has paint near chests just make sure the chests are on same pipe as the barrels and there is a restriction tube before them

But I need to say that everything that doesn't need smelting/macerating just goes straight to the storage wall, that is why I have the default route as white, aslo it makes it so anything that need processing can not go that way.

So I did what I said about a middle-man chest and a filter:

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Now I assumed this would work, but you know what they say about assuming things, well it proved true and this doesn't work (settings on sorter still the same)

 

[Bickers]

add some hoppers to the macerator if there is more then one type or ore it will cause problems

 

[fusiomax]

I placed hoppers on top of both the furnace and macerator, and it does seem to work, but only very periodically, and there is no single common factor between the times it works that would explain what/why this is happening.

EDIT: and occasionally I get things channeled to white that aren't meant to be

 

[b0bst3r]

What you have to remember is RP tubes and machines are "intelligent" unless you have a valid place for something to go to it wont go. If you want to find out what a machine gets stuck on drop a chest on top of the tubes at certain points. So if you think it's stuck down the black route drop and chest on the tubes after the black painted tubes, it will become a valid inventory and the sorter will send. If nothing happens smash the chest and try a different route.

Once you find out what jammed the sorter it may help you alleviate the issue.

 

[Bickers]

heres my setup similer to yours but mine outputs ores to a chest on light blue rest go to barrels if its in one and rest into white chests

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[nevakanezah]

Is your sorting machine backed up? If it gets too many items bouncing back, then the sorting machines lock up, and don't push anything else out. Try breaking and replacing the machine, if you suspect it might be this.

Also, it looks like your "unsorted" gold chests aren't connected because of those panels? i could be mistaken.

 

[fusiomax]

What you have to remember is RP tubes and machines are "intelligent" unless you have a valid place for something to go to it wont go. If you want to find out what a machine gets stuck on drop a chest on top of the tubes at certain points. So if you think it's stuck down the black route drop and chest on the tubes after the black painted tubes, it will become a valid inventory and the sorter will send. If nothing happens smash the chest and try a different route.

Once you find out what jammed the sorter it may help you alleviate the issue.

So from doing that it would seem that the sorter is just getting stuck because there is no space for the ores to go to (when the macerator is full) and it is sort of jamming the machine, after a while though it gets some space and moves it into there, so from what I can tell i just have a lot more resources than it can handle.

Is there any way to make it just pull from any slot of the chest rather than just slot 0?

Is your sorting machine backed up? If it gets too many items bouncing back, then the sorting machines lock up, and don't push anything else out. Try breaking and replacing the machine, if you suspect it might be this.

I have checked this and it wasn't the problem, thanks for the help though!

 

[Abdiel]

The problem doesn't have to be the white route. The sorter will pull the first item it can from the chest, and then see where it should go. If it can't go down the selected route, the sorter will hold on to the item and halt until the route frees up. So if your macerator is processing copper, and the sorter pulls out a piece of tin, it will be stuck until the copper is done, and won't pull anything else from the chest. You can easily see when the sorter is "stuck" on an item by the red light on its side, clearly visible in the ON position in the third picture.

 

[fusiomax]

So after all of this help, it turns out it was as simple as me having a lot of resources to be sorted (26 diamond chests xD).

So it was the backing up thing a few people mentioned. Nothing I can do to fix it (as far as I can see) other than just giving it time.

Thanks to everyone for your help! It's a really nice forum here

 

[b0bst3r]

Ofc you can fix it, if your system is backed up on one machine how about having 2 of them or 3 or 5 or 10.

 

[fusiomax]

Ofc you can fix it, if your system is backed up on one machine how about having 2 of them or 3 or 5 or 10.

I will later, this is just a temporary setup to get me the resources processed so I can make the other bunch of sorters.

Though i will ask how you can use 10 on one chest?

 

[b0bst3r]

LOL I mean the macerator not the sorter

 

[fusiomax]

LOL I mean the macerator not the sorter

Well that would make slightly more sense, only slightly though

 

[Abdiel]

So after all of this help, it turns out it was as simple as me having a lot of resources to be sorted (26 diamond chests xD).

So it was the backing up thing a few people mentioned. Nothing I can do to fix it (as far as I can see) other than just giving it time.

Thanks to everyone for your help! It's a really nice forum here

Have some kind of a buffer on top of your macerator. You can use a BC Hopper or a RP Relay. (Or GregTech buffers if you don't mind EU consumption.) That way, even if the machine is busy, items will still be able to get sorted, land in the buffer, and wait to be processed.