Blood Magic and Steve's Factory Manager Usage Queery

[Haydenw37]

I've been having a heck of a lot of fun playing around with SFM to automate various things in my base and the one thing I've been trying recently is to automate my blood altar in such a way that:
1) if it has materials for crafting in the local inventory, then it will focus on trying to do so, given the relevant crafting command is linked up
2)If no materials are present, it will take the max tier blood orb from the inventory and put it in the altar until no more LP can be stored [at this point the altar would fill up and the LP generation will be turned off] and then be replaced into the inventory until needed

I wanted this setup because it would stop me logging in after being away for a while to having the nausea debuff.


My problem though is I'm having trouble getting SFM to recognise the blood orbs in the inventory, so at this point the only thing working is automated slate production.


Would anyone know what settings I can use within SFM to get it to pull out the blood orbs? I get the feeling that the data regarding ownership is affecting how SFM reads the blood orb and thus can't detect it...

 

[Yusunoha]

I actually automated my altar like this in my creative and survival world, except I've done it a bit different.
instead of having SFM craft the items if they're present in the input chest I instead have it so the altar will craft items to keep a certain number of them stocked in the output chest.
this way you always have some items in stock and don't have to wait for the altar to first craft them.

I also have it set so if it doesn't have any crafting to do that SFM will put a blood orb in the altar, untill it has work again and it moves the blood orb into the input chest till the work is done and then moves the blood orb back into the altar. I don't have an on/off switch for the altar because I always need some LP so there's not really a point in turning it off.

for SFM to recognize a bound blood orb you need to set the blood orb to fuzzy mode in SFM when selecting it

 

[Haydenw37]

Yeah, I had thought about setting it up to keep a certain amount at the ready, but as I've got multiple projects in different mods going at once I'm happy enough with just letting it run through several stacks of stone while I do other things or am offline. And at this point I don't have any rituals up and running that drain my LP so I wanted to maximise my use of LP.

Thanks, I'll have to have a bit of a play around again with my coding and see how that goes.