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In vanilla mechanics, it is not that a portal is linked to an other portal, (even though we often call it that) but rather, when an entity enters a portal, it is determined where that entity will exit.
An exit portal is searched within a radius, and the winner is the one closest to the theoretical exit point. If none are found, it will run the code to find a location to spawn a new one.
To move a portal, just make sure the desired exit portal is in range, and there are no valid portals closer to the theoretical exit. (just break any existing ones)
Despite many claims saying otherwise, vanilla portal mechanics are 100% predictable, given you know all the facts about the situation. The result may not be what you want it to be, but that is a different issue.
Had to reply because I stopped getting alerts. But does anyone know why Botania hates AE, and a fix? I put a flower bag with a bunch of flowers into the system. And I come back later to get a flower and everything in the bag is gone.
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Be patient, mutating plants takes quite while. It's only been two days. It's when it's been two weeks that it's an issue.
OK, I'm thinking of a thing, just not sure how or if it's possible.
Let's say I (finally) want to set up a railcraft-based item transfer system, can I set up some kind of a terminal at one end location where I can select the items I want brought to me from a centralized storage location, then have a chest-cart loaded with the items I wanted get filled up remotely and sent to my location?
Or anything else similar? I can run pipes all over town underground if need be, but I'd rather use the carts.
This may not be a simple question, lol.
Let's say I (finally) want to set up a railcraft-based item transfer system, can I set up some kind of a terminal at one end location where I can select the items I want brought to me from a centralized storage location, then have a chest-cart loaded with the items I wanted get filled up remotely and sent to my location?
Or anything else similar? I can run pipes all over town underground if need be, but I'd rather use the carts.
This may not be a simple question, lol.
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What about if you had a ranged collector on the cart and a dropper at each station, would that work?
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I've never used a ranged collector, but from the description, I'm not sure it would work. The idea I'm thinking of would require some kind of inventory panel thing that you can set up remotely, then tell it which items you want loaded, then it could pull those items.
I've never used any kind of inventory panel. The most advanced inventory management system I've used is storage drawers, so I am way out of my depth here, lol
Edit: The real question, I think, is whether or not there's a remote inventory panel that can let you select items to push into a chest from any distance. Once the items are selected and put into a designated chest, the rest is definitely doable with railcraft, I'm pretty sure.
I've never used any kind of inventory panel. The most advanced inventory management system I've used is storage drawers, so I am way out of my depth here, lol
Edit: The real question, I think, is whether or not there's a remote inventory panel that can let you select items to push into a chest from any distance. Once the items are selected and put into a designated chest, the rest is definitely doable with railcraft, I'm pretty sure.
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Applied energistics can definately do this but it might make the rest of the setup a bit redundant .
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If AE has it, would that mean RS has it?
And how redundant? A little bit redundant is ok, like if it's probably easier to run item pipes all the way from the storage base, then I'm ok with using the carts instead just because they'd kinda look cooler. But if this remote inventory panel lets you pull those items out from thin air wherever you are, then that would kinda defeat the whole purpose.
And how redundant? A little bit redundant is ok, like if it's probably easier to run item pipes all the way from the storage base, then I'm ok with using the carts instead just because they'd kinda look cooler. But if this remote inventory panel lets you pull those items out from thin air wherever you are, then that would kinda defeat the whole purpose.
Correction: If AE1 had it, RS had it plus a few things added by AE2 and an even smaller number of things that were made by the mod author himself. I must admit that the portable grid is pretty cool.
AE2 is more complicated, and some people hate it for that, and others love it for that. There is probably nothing that AE2 can do that RS can't, (except blocking mode, but I forget if they added that though) albeit a bit slower.
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Yes, by redundant I meant you could have access to all your items remotely but I'm guessing that you actually want to setup something quite fun with railcraft.
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Yes I know what you mean... sometimes the easy way is also the dullest. Is it a specific item you want or a different one each time? I've not checked but there must be some kind of redstone remote control you could use to automate extraction.
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That's the thing, I'd need it to be able to pull whatever items I want. I'm running minecolonies, which has you create an actual working village with NPC slav- I mean villagers running around doing various things like a living village. I wanted to set up a couple of little huts of my own within that village for building/testing/ode to certain mods. For example, let's say I wanted a Silent's Gems based armory, I'd build a large storage area with access to my Silent's Gems and all the machines I'd use to build stuff, and I was hoping to have like an inventory panel on a wall somewhere that I could punch in whatever I needed that wasn't already there. Just thought it'd look cool.
It's not big deal, but I have been saying I'd build a railcraft-like mass inventory system forever now and there's just no way to do it and not feel like it's all just a waste of time because I can do it so much better some other way. My tracks will end up being for roller-coaster/tours/archery range kind of thing only, I guess.
It's not big deal, but I have been saying I'd build a railcraft-like mass inventory system forever now and there's just no way to do it and not feel like it's all just a waste of time because I can do it so much better some other way. My tracks will end up being for roller-coaster/tours/archery range kind of thing only, I guess.
Its not just AE. There seems to be a bug with that flower bag and a few inventories systems (like the golden bag of holding or backpacks). So only real fix is to not use the flower bag until the issue is fixed. But I think this is more of Botania issue or forge issue. Take a look at https://github.com/Vazkii/Botania/issues/1894.
Uhhh, that's not what I was talking about. The portable grid is a backpack-type thing that uses disk space. The wireless grid is the one you're thinking of. And its in both AE1 and AE2.
Ok, so there's hope maybe then? I will have to look into this in more detail. I have RS on my modpack, but wouldn't ya know it, it's my pack and my server and I can do whatever I want with it
So, this wireless grid will let me access the items, and output into an inventory remotely? Without actually just giving me the item magically?
the only thing i remember that could do that was logistics pipes with a remote order , everything else ends up with the interface giving u items from storage directly (wireless grid is litterally ur refined storage system within an arms reach without having the drives on ur body, any items u pull from it will get tped to u effectively )
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