Best way to move MJ between ages.

[Zivel]

Whats the best way to move power from my power room to the age that my bees are in? Tried a redstone energy cell with block breakers and ender chests but forgot that I have to shift right click to remove the cell and keep the power and deployers cant seem to shift right click... any other ideas?

 

[Predatorkillol]

Engineering turtles could do the trick in the place of deployers it should be a fairly easy code

 

[Lambert2191]

you're wanting to do it automatically or manually?

 

[Omicron]

Engineering turtles work; but you could also melt down cobblestone into lava, transport that lava between dimensions (liquid transposer + enderchest or railcraft tank cart + portal), and use it to fuel magmatic engines on the other side.

 

[slay_mithos]

Well, energy cells and engineering turtles makes it so that you don't need a power plant in the age where you need the power, but it is a bit tricky to do it right.
I suggest the use of RP filters to filter empty cells and send them to the turtle.

 

[Dafuq?]

I'm about to create a mining age and I think I will go with magmatic engines for bc power.

I already have a liquid transposer setup in the nether (hint: you can use aluminum from xycraft to make cells), so I have more lava than I can ever use, and it's fairly easy and cheap to set up...

 

[Zivel]

Engineering turtles could do the trick in the place of deployers it should be a fairly easy code

Is the engineering turtle in the DW20 pack?

 

[Predatorkillol]

Its part of Misc Peripherals which im pretty certain is in dw20

 

[Zivel]

Ok, I got it after taking a crash course in Lua and watching Direwolf (he is one smart geek). So if anyone cares heres a screenshot

fliters, transposers, deployers, gate reader engineering turtles, redstone energy cells and enderchests.... took me a bit to sort out but works well.

thanks peeps

 

[mobsterer]

could you explain that in a little more detail pls?

 

[Predatorkillol]

Not the most compact but still good

 

[Chre903]

Can you please give us the Turtle script and say what addons you put on them?

 

[Zivel]

Not on my computer at the moment but will later . How do I do spoiler tag, quote things?

 

[FavoriteFox]

Sweet. Would like to see the script as well.

 

[Zivel]

The code I use is:

m = peripheral.wrap("right")
 
data = m.get(front)
 
function power()
  check()
  sleep(.1)
end
 
function check()
  if data["Full Energy"] == true then
--change to "No Energy" for the other turtle
    turtle.dig() else
    sleep(2)
  end
  data = m.get("front")
end
 
while true do
  power()
end

Now please realise that I am useless at Lua (this is my second set of code) and so probably has a few (many) mistakes in it or can be done simpler. This is the code from the turtle that gets the "Full Energy" redstone cell, the one that gets the "No Energy" redstone cell is a little different and I have thrown that bit into the code.

The turtles I have used are Gate Reader Engineering Turtles. The require a gate reader to make. The problem is that you have to get both the programs running when you log in or if they are un chunk loaded. I think I would like to use a seperate gate reader and put a wireless modem on the turtles to start them up from my base but do not know the code to do that yet.

In the picture it goes.... redstone cell > turtle > transposer > ender chest > filter (reads the cells if they are empty or full) > deployer. The timer is on a 2 sec setup., not that it matters.

Its not the most compact, I think you could fit the timer in between the tubes and make them redstone tubes so that you could remove the wiring.

 

[FavoriteFox]

Great. I'm going to try to put this and a quarry on a frame so I can move it around easily.