OOhhhhhhhhh........Time to try that.....By massive, would you consider 20 fusion reactors of power to be good? Cause I have that.Maybe if you modified the dragon egg with gas turbines....
and then hatched it using massive amounts of shaft power
Mod Feedback [By Request] RotaryCraft Suggestions
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Ok then. Time to turn on what I like to call "El maximo mode".I was thinking maybe one, but 20 should do it
Hey, I'm trying to automate the blast furnace right now since I'm spending much too much time on making steel.
For some reason the blast furnace only exposes 1 out of 9 slots though, which is a minor nuisance loading it manually (shift click once, and then scramble to fill the 8 other slots...oh, bummer, didn't get that last piece in there, damn you hot blast furnace, now i'm down 1 piece of coal coke).
But automating it really takes the cake. You only get to insert into slot 1, which means i get terrible efficiency out of it (which makes my skin crawl), and I've tried
x Itemducts
x Hoppers
x Storage Busses
x Export Busses
x Turtles
x Computers
x Droppers
x Item Pumps
x Buildcraft Pipes
x Logistics Pipes
x Prayer
to get those other 8 slots filled to capacity. There also seems to be no way to automate coal coke (wait, why the hell not?). That just seems utterly broken.
The steel purifier is just acting as nonsensically in my opinion, with you being able to insert the gunpowder and steel into it automatically, but the sand slot being inaccessible? Why is that?
I mean I get the high input/high reward ethos of this mod, and I make a point of overengineering my setups to the point of ridiculousness. But I think that rotarycraft shouldn't be simply about steelmaking, because right now I spend approximately 2 hours on steelmaking, 15 minutes on crafting and 15 minutes on assembly, which is simply silly. I mean if I want tedium, I'll load up Gregtech or something, or play vanilla.
Rotarycraft is a great mod, and I love playing it. But it's incredibly upsetting to me when something as rudimentary as steelmaking requires manual input to do efficiently. I don't even really care about the cost of doing it, I'd spend a nether star on a blast furnace that can use all 9 slots automatically and without fuss.
So Reika, what's the motivation behind closing those 8 slots in the recent version?
For some reason the blast furnace only exposes 1 out of 9 slots though, which is a minor nuisance loading it manually (shift click once, and then scramble to fill the 8 other slots...oh, bummer, didn't get that last piece in there, damn you hot blast furnace, now i'm down 1 piece of coal coke).
But automating it really takes the cake. You only get to insert into slot 1, which means i get terrible efficiency out of it (which makes my skin crawl), and I've tried
x Itemducts
x Hoppers
x Storage Busses
x Export Busses
x Turtles
x Computers
x Droppers
x Item Pumps
x Buildcraft Pipes
x Logistics Pipes
x Prayer
to get those other 8 slots filled to capacity. There also seems to be no way to automate coal coke (wait, why the hell not?). That just seems utterly broken.
The steel purifier is just acting as nonsensically in my opinion, with you being able to insert the gunpowder and steel into it automatically, but the sand slot being inaccessible? Why is that?
I mean I get the high input/high reward ethos of this mod, and I make a point of overengineering my setups to the point of ridiculousness. But I think that rotarycraft shouldn't be simply about steelmaking, because right now I spend approximately 2 hours on steelmaking, 15 minutes on crafting and 15 minutes on assembly, which is simply silly. I mean if I want tedium, I'll load up Gregtech or something, or play vanilla.
Rotarycraft is a great mod, and I love playing it. But it's incredibly upsetting to me when something as rudimentary as steelmaking requires manual input to do efficiently. I don't even really care about the cost of doing it, I'd spend a nether star on a blast furnace that can use all 9 slots automatically and without fuss.
So Reika, what's the motivation behind closing those 8 slots in the recent version?
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Once you set the recipe by putting 1 iron in each slot, automation can insert into the other slots, but that's as automated as you can get with it. If you have trouble getting the iron in each slot fast enough you can just take out one of the side ingredients first.
Change the side of your inputs. I had export bus filling every slot I think (was a few weeks ago) in the side (out the back, coal and stuff on top)
Other way around, SFM and factorization can insert in any slot
O.O To be fair I haven't tried automating it since 1.6, but even if you place 1 iron in each slot manually it won't insert into the other slots? Also very strange that EnderIO isn't inserting even to the first one.
Yup, tried pneumatic pipes as well. I'm working on a system to automate everything else right now. Coal Coke is a bummer too, there doesn't seem to be a way to insert coal into the right slot to make coke either. Our server is on RC 1.6 v25z right now. Acording to Demo it worked in the earlier versions, so it seems to be a recent change.
Automation in the Blast Furnace can only refill slots if the to-be-added item is already in the main grid.
So it is automatable with some careful level monitoring? Awesome. That's a strange way for it to work, but it's better than me configuring a PIM to give me iron to hand insert into the furnace, and then using modems to pull coke into the furnace once all 9 stacks are filled. I allready had the code written for it -.-
Also, can I add that to the reikamods wiki?
Also, can I add that to the reikamods wiki?
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So, are you saying that if I start with all 9 slots having iron, and make sure that I don't empty it, then automation can keep filling all 9 slots?
Next question: Will a comparator monitor the iron level, and let me turn it off before it empties?
So, are you saying that if I start with all 9 slots having iron, and make sure that I don't empty it, then automation can keep filling all 9 slots?
Next question: Will a comparator monitor the iron level, and let me turn it off before it empties?
An option to prevent the blast furnace from using the last stack of a recipe, like a Railcraft rolling machine, wouldn't be a bad feature. Perhaps have the feature activate by application of a redstone signal?