Automatic Water Mill system help

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Freekill

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Jul 29, 2019
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Hi, I am playing on an unleashed server and I was having problem with power in my house at night (I use solar panels) so I decided to make an automatic water mill farm however I have run into the problem of not being able to pipe water into water mills (stupid) so I decided to make a system where my pump would fill the liquid disposer with water and then fill buckets which will then be sent down the cobblestone pipes ot the water mill providing power and then have the emerald pipe force the bucket out of the mill and back into the liquid transposer. However I can not get it working, here are my 2 problems.

1. the water bucket won't go into the mill from the liquid transposer, as soon as the bucket reaches the last pipe (to mill) it either reverses or pops out of pipe.

2. the emerald pipe won't pull out the bucket form the mill

Can someone help? (see picture below for better insight)

Pump -> liquid transposer -> bucket to mill from transposer -> mill supplies power -> emerald pipe pulls the bucket out -> empty bucket to liquid transposer to loop.

 
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starxplor

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I heard somewhere that watermills were specifically changed to not allow piping in of water or items(buckets). They are not meant to be automated.

Have you tried cells instead of buckets, or using something like turtles instead of BC pipes?
 

Freekill

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I just like the design :p. Is it possible to have the pump, pump water into a turtle and it take it to the watermill place the water then go back to the pump to collect more water?