Request ActAdd item laser relay system stops working

[Anton_]

Newbie to this forum, please be gentle!

I'm using the DW20 mod pack that accompanies his Let's Play season 8. I'm fairly new to using MC mods, so I've been going very carefully and slowly.

DW20's item laser relay sorting system worked totally fine to begin with. But then, very often, and for no reason that I can see, it stops working, and items which used to get moved, don't. If I break the chain of relays and then then reinstate it, the system usually works again. Everything is in the standard DW20 9x9 base building, so distances are short.

I'm obviously missing something fundamental. Really grateful for any pointers, please?

 

[Anton_]

OK, I found out almost by accident what was causing the problem.

I decided to dismantle the whole structure in order to rebuild it, and then noticed that there were items "stuck" in the ESD (visible in the UI). I mined the ESD, releasing the stuck items, and replaced the ESD. Seems to be working now.

The only remaining glitch seems to be that, occasionally, items go to the "Miscellaneous" chest where there was already a chest which had that item on white-list. I solved that (I hope!) by dropping the Miscellaneous chest's priority.

 

[Seether67]

Thanks for your post, Anton. Sure helped me to keep from me thinking I was going insane.

 

[Anton_]

You're welcome, Seether67. I was never really happy with the ActAdd sorting system where it involved ore processing - but on hindsight it may have been because I didn't have that part of the base chunk-loaded. I re-did it with EnderIO and Refined Storage (also as per DW20 - episode 26, from about 0:10:30 onwards) - and I chunk-loaded the building. No problems since then. ActAdd is still running my canola farm and oil processing very effectively. I like the flexibility of ActAdd's lasers - but if I had to do it over I'd have used EnderIO and RefStrg.