Advice: diverse liquid storage

[Pyure]

Playing Unhinged. Am fairly newbish (created first matter-fab ever this morning)

Does anyone ever try to store ALL their liquids in tanks, and then automatically "cell" the liquids on demand? I'm thinking maybe an ME network would be able to send an empty cell to, say, a liquid transposer which fetches a specific liquid out as part of a crafting recipe.

The whole purpose of this is to save tin. I have more tin than I know what to do with, but wasting it seriously offends my gods.

How do others handle these liquids?

If its not obvious, I'm looking at liquids we don't store in massive quantities, e.g various fuels for the most part. Basically all the stuff from centrifuging/electrolyzing.

I seem to remember logistics pipes would handle this much better. Bleh.

 

[Mysteana]

Yeah, I used tanks and transposers and let AE either craft the filled cells on demand or maintain a certain level.

I can't remember if Unhinged had bees and you can store stuff like mercury in wax capsules, but if you can you could add another layer and store the liquids in those wax capsules, squeezing and liquid transposing on demand, which saves on the space needed for tanks in exchange for slightly higher complexity and needing a stable supply of beeswax.

 

[casilleroatr]

You could also get into bee breeding and get wax capsules. All you need to do is let your bees make you honey combs and then you centrifuge them. If you want to make it better you could always breed your way to at least cultivated to get some fast productivity bees and perhaps you could also target diligent for some stringy combs which produce propolis. This lets you make the very useful apiarists pipe which is helpful for automating apiaries.

 

[Pyure]

Bees was a good idea but it appears the centrifuging/electrolyzing by-products (Calcium, sodium, etc) are cell-only (at least in NEI they are).

I'm gonna play with the tanks and AE then, thanks folks.

 

[MigukNamja]

Just my opinon : you don't necessarily have to have tanks for everything. Many/most intermediate liquids can be made on-demand. For instance, if you're a saplings into ultimately Biofuel/Ethanol chain, you don't have to store the honey/juice or biomass in tanks. Just pipe from one to the next.

I only use tanks when the burst demand is higher than the supply. Fuel, Ethanol, bee DNA, and IC2 Dev UU-mater-liquid are a few examples. Some people use lava for fuel, so that's worth tanking as well.

But, that's my opinion. Tanks are indeed pretty cool and it's sometimes nice being able to see your liquid supply of stuff.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

I use tanks for what I have a lot of [oil/fuel, biomass/fuel, juice, lava, deuterium, tritium, plasma, honey, seed oil and DNA].

If its something made in small supply or only used in cell form (mercury/calcium/sodium-compound-thingy), its easier to leave it in cell from (saves wasting a tank/machine)​

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Liquid void pipes can be useful (useless byproducts like creosote, mercury ect)- sometimes its more wasteful building a system to use what you have no use for.

Quite a few Gregtech machines can take raw liquid, or are smart enough to 'unpack' it from the cell.
And iron tanks have a GUI that can fill/empty containers (destroys cells- buckets seem fine), haven't tested how well this works with automation mind.

 

[kittle]

As an experiment, I setup a 'tank room' in my current base, and used LP to route things around. AE network exports excess bees to the liquid dna machine which is extracted into a tank. Also takes honeydrops into the squeezer, an LP extracts the honey and routes it to the appropriate tank. That worked well, so I kept adding on.

But the real handy part is i can have the tanks "far away" and keep the processing machines close to my power lines. I just have 1 long pipe going from the processing area to my tank room. Also makes it easy to expand your tank room w/o having to rearrange all your processing.