autonomous activator + scrapboxes = scapboxinator! without the EU!

[steve g]

ya was messing with my power setups map and had some recyclers running thru excess stuff being generated and i was wondering..hmmm. scrapboxes.

so i set up an autonomous activator, pointing down into a pit. it doesnt eject into pipes or inventories, so i made a little item collector pit and have it pipe the items into a bank of chests and see what i get. success!

 

[DZCreeper]

Have you tried Itemducts? If nothing else, those should work.

 

[steve g]

Have you tried Itemducts? If nothing else, those should work.

nope. it ejects into the world only. i tried using the configurable output slot with te and bc pipes, but nothing goes out that face. the only output is the face with the cross on it, and only in to the air. the only control you have on ejected items is where they are aimed relative to the block

 

[Fe2O3]

Ah brilliant, I suppose you feedback the useless stuff immediately to the recycler?

I see you are running a harvester; you can pump the sludge into a boiler to generate more 'food' for the recycler ...

 

[Zaflis]

Hopper should pick up anything from above it, be it inside inventory or world. From hopper the items journey can continue to a chest, from where itemducts can easily pick up (if not from the hopper itself).

Oh, also know that itemducts won't pull out anything without Pneumatic servo installed and configured. Configuring is done by right clicking with no items in hand, and then disable redstone control, set empty blacklist filter if all items are allowed in.

 

[steve g]

i know you all mean well, but when i say the activator doesnt work with any sort of pipe or inventory...it actively *ignores* any such connections. bc pipes dont even connect. itemducts connect, but items still get ejected out, upgraded or not. anything blocking the output face (the animated side with the cross) with say an item collector, chest, tesseract, even hoppers, will actually block the activator and it stops processing the scrapboxes. it behaves much like a dispenser, i dare say almost exactly like one. hence why i designed the little pit in the screenshot. just let it shoot stuff out and use conveyors or a water chute to route and collect the drops. I tried messing with the input/output faces tab as well...the configurable output face doesnt output anything. at least not with scrapboxes.

 

[steve g]

Ah brilliant, I suppose you feedback the useless stuff immediately to the recycler?

I see you are running a harvester; you can pump the sludge into a boiler to generate more 'food' for the recycler ...

from a melon farm yes. i have a jungle tree farm feeding vines into the recyclers. i also have 8 transfer nodes acting like cobble generators feeding the recyclers

 

[Zaflis]

...anything blocking the output face... will actually block the activator and it stops processing the scrapboxes.

I would still try the hopper then, but leave 1 empty space between the device and hopper. Anything that touches the top face of hopper will be sucked in, you can even manually throw items in it.

And i am using Auto Workbench for scrapbox making myself. (You can have tens of them if you want, and they don't use any form of power.)