OK just so we are clear this is not a super way to do this. As with many of my weird builds there are many better ways to do this. The goal here is to take Cactus which can self farm and in the end of things turn it into Coke. And we want to do all this with zero input of anything into the system once built. No power or materials. Basically a Time to Power system.
Also full disclosure I built this inside a 16x16 chunk so it could be loaded with a spot loader or a portal gun. The system has 14 layers of cactus and 8 coke ovens this creates about 12 stacks of coke every real day. This is kind of random as the system does not have a steady predictable amount of cactus output as some do get destroyed. But it is stable enough that it does not back up and does not run dry.
Mods needed here. Rail Craft, Forestry and Plugins for Forestry, Extra utilities, Iron chests, Factorization, Minefactory reloaded, and build craft. Some of these are ones that could be replaced but these are the ones used in this build.
We start with a classic cactus farm which really everyone should know how these work by now.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
As stated there is 14 layers here. rows of 7 each in 7 layers of 3 and 7 layers of 5 rows.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
It feeds into two hoppers
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
which go into 2 chests. You could use normal chests but while getting everything figured out I would back up the system often that is why I have gold here.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
These transport pipes act as two way systems for items and liquids.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
They will feed into these 8 coke ovens.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
One line of pipes put cactus in the back 4 ovens and pull liquid from all 8 ovens. Be mindful they do not cross with the other set of transport pipes and use a wrench to turn off connections you don't need. Blue is the liquid transport and Red is the item. These pull stuff out and into the pipe network. it is important that the pipes pulling cactus charcoal out do not cross with the ones bringing cactus in otherwise the system can jam up.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
The front 4 are where the cactus charcoal from the back 4 are going and we also want to pull the liquid out of these too.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
We pull the now cactus coke out from the front four and pipe it into a liquid crafter. You could use other auto crafting systems but in the pack I use RR this is the only one that takes no power and is fairly easy to automate.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
The MFR Rednet controller is sending a pulse every 20 ticks which makes the liquid crafter try and make 1 item.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
8 cactus coke can make 1 coal coke.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
really simple clock setup for the controller if you never played with that before.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
And just an extra we pipe all that liquid over to some tanks.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
Just remember that if you don't do something with the liquid the ovens stop working.
Also full disclosure I built this inside a 16x16 chunk so it could be loaded with a spot loader or a portal gun. The system has 14 layers of cactus and 8 coke ovens this creates about 12 stacks of coke every real day. This is kind of random as the system does not have a steady predictable amount of cactus output as some do get destroyed. But it is stable enough that it does not back up and does not run dry.
Mods needed here. Rail Craft, Forestry and Plugins for Forestry, Extra utilities, Iron chests, Factorization, Minefactory reloaded, and build craft. Some of these are ones that could be replaced but these are the ones used in this build.
We start with a classic cactus farm which really everyone should know how these work by now.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
As stated there is 14 layers here. rows of 7 each in 7 layers of 3 and 7 layers of 5 rows.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
It feeds into two hoppers
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
which go into 2 chests. You could use normal chests but while getting everything figured out I would back up the system often that is why I have gold here.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
These transport pipes act as two way systems for items and liquids.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
They will feed into these 8 coke ovens.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
One line of pipes put cactus in the back 4 ovens and pull liquid from all 8 ovens. Be mindful they do not cross with the other set of transport pipes and use a wrench to turn off connections you don't need. Blue is the liquid transport and Red is the item. These pull stuff out and into the pipe network. it is important that the pipes pulling cactus charcoal out do not cross with the ones bringing cactus in otherwise the system can jam up.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
The front 4 are where the cactus charcoal from the back 4 are going and we also want to pull the liquid out of these too.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
We pull the now cactus coke out from the front four and pipe it into a liquid crafter. You could use other auto crafting systems but in the pack I use RR this is the only one that takes no power and is fairly easy to automate.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
The MFR Rednet controller is sending a pulse every 20 ticks which makes the liquid crafter try and make 1 item.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
8 cactus coke can make 1 coal coke.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
really simple clock setup for the controller if you never played with that before.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
And just an extra we pipe all that liquid over to some tanks.
Cactus to Coke by Saice, on Flickr
Just remember that if you don't do something with the liquid the ovens stop working.