An AE Conundrum

[SpoonsV]

I bet Direwolf could do it.

Wouldn't make for very good vids though.

 

[bigtwisty]

It would be a pretty simple program, honestly. I could do it in about 5 minutes when I get home. Let me know if you'd like me to and I can send you a pastebin link this evening. Unless, of course, that wouldn't be sufficiently impressive for video...

 

[BuzzSa]

I'm kind of new to AE so there may be a simpler way to do this but what I think everyone is referring to is putting "one dust = one silicon" on a pattern, and then putting that pattern in the "processing" slot of an ME interface block that is connected to any type of furnace. What then happens is whenever you request silicon the system sends dust to the furnace and smelts it. If you have an import bus also attached to the furnace, it then puts the resulting silicon back into your AE system.

Just do as Deftscythe has said and use nether quarts dust. Then if you ask for import bus it will smelt it and use it. Also if you use ic2 the smelting is not even a second so no delay in crafting.

 

[KirinDave]

I really wish I had the LUA skills to pull off a bit of Direwolf style turtle/computercraft magic but I simply do not.

That would be perfect though. If I could LUA, I would have a master computer controlling everything and displaying everything on to a monitor in my base and then exporting it onto an Excel spreadsheet which was emailed to me hourly so I wouldn't even need to login to enjoy FTB.

Sweet, sweet data.

Don't beat yourself up. AE specifically does not do well with the task you want to do. "Keep exactly N items in system" or "keep exactly 14 things in this" or "conditionally check to make sure there are 4 coal in the furnace if it's not on". AE can't do any of these tasks well.

 

[MigukNamja]

Also, as someone else pointed out, you want to level emit the furnace itself rather than the import bus. This will shutoff the furnace immediately.[DOUBLEPOST=1377701852][/DOUBLEPOST]

Don't beat yourself up. AE specifically does not do well with the task you want to do. "Keep exactly N items in system" or "keep exactly 14 things in this" or "conditionally check to make sure there are 4 coal in the furnace if it's not on". AE can't do any of these tasks well.

Indeed ! The only IC2 machines I use are maximum OC'd for speed. Smelting silicon is super-fast in a fully upgraded Electric Furnace.

 

[SpoonsV]

Also, as someone else pointed out, you want to level emit the furnace itself rather than the import bus. This will shutoff the furnace immediately.[DOUBLEPOST=1377701852][/DOUBLEPOST]

Yeah good call. It would still have 40+ dust in the inventory though.

I did a bit more research today and it seems the mod author is planning to implement something to tackle this task in future updates. Though I haven't seen anything official it was stated in a few other forums.

The mod is simply brilliant though so I cannot criticise. I am just trying to get it to do something it can't and it is testament to the mod that I just assumed it would be able to do it.

AE and TE get the best newcomers award (relative newcomers) for sure.

IC2 machines seem so clunky and archaic compared to TE machines and I love that they use the Buildcraft energy which is measured in 'Michael Jacksons'. The best unit of energy.

 

[bigtwisty]

The use of computercraft is the only way I have found to accurately auto manufacture a specified number of items without any excess sub-recipes. The only reason it works is that you can set the loop time between crafting requests to be slightly higher than the amount of time it takes to make the maximum number of required items. AE is great if it is given specific instructions on how many of something to make.