Can any of you think of a way to automate the spectrolus from botania with ONLY Steve's factory manager? I have been trying to come up with a way to automate it like this for ages, but nothing. The reason I want to do it this way is mostly because, its easy to make it compact and the camoflauge blocks come in handy.
FYI the spectrolus is a generating flower from botania which eats up wool of different colors in order of the Minecraft spectrum of colors. The catch is it will eat up any color of wool instantly but only generates mana from the wool color its asking for.
So far I have come up with an idea in which the item valve from sfm drops a piece of white wool onto a glass block connected to an extended sticky piston to block a direct line of fire from the item valve to the spectrolus as it eats up wool instantly. There is then a condition which says if there is white wool do two things:
1.emit a redtone signal to remove the glass block, note this Redstone signal is also connected to a Redstone receiver from sfm.
2.this is connected to another condition which says if there is NO Redstone signal on the receiver i.e. if glass block is blocking the spectrolus, then push the next wool, orange.
This continuous on for all the wool colors and cycles back to white.
I am not sure how this will work as the speed of the piston is unreliable and the wool colors may fall in together. So I am looking for a better idea.
Note: my Redstone signal is connected to a NOTgate so that's what I mean when I imply that a Redstone signal causes the piston to retract
Thanks in advance
Edit: big post eh?