Carrying Stacks of Items with BuildCraft 3 pipes. (Includes Pile Addons)

[Manetheren1012]

ive been wondering about this, to use with my steves carts fram, and the only thing i can think of is routers. however, they attach to multiple inventories so that will not work. please help!

 

[Adonis0]

If you're talking about extracting stacks of items all in one go, get yourself a wooden or emerald pipe and power it with MJ

The more MJ/t you send it the more items it pulls out in one go

 

[Manetheren1012]

really? i didnt know that. I just use wooden pipes with an autarcic gate and it pulls really slowly.

 

[Adonis0]

really? i didnt know that. I just use wooden pipes with an autarcic gate and it pulls really slowly.

Yup, because autarcic gates sacrifice speed for compactness

Chuck a real engine on it (so not a redstone engine) and it will start pulling out higher amounts, Not sure how much MJ/t you'll need.

Redstone energy cells from Thermal expansion work quite nicely as well

 

[rhn]

Or you could use a machine filter in the router and program it to only interact with one type or single inventory.

 

[PierceSG]

Automatic Wooden Transport pipe with Aut.Diamond OR gate, all with (in inventory has items) -> (extract items) or (energy pulse) for all 8 entries. Should be pretty fast.

 

[rhn]

Automatic Wooden Transport pipe with Aut.Diamond OR gate, all with (in inventory has items) -> (extract items) or (energy pulse) for all 8 entries. Should be pretty fast.

I wouldn't expect telling the Automatic Wooden transport pipe to pump 8 times will do any difference. And iirc the pipe pumps at a pace of 2 redstone engines. Even that x8 is nothing compared to a single standard Electric engine.

 

[Adonis0]

I wouldn't expect telling the Automatic Wooden transport pipe to pump 8 times will do any difference. And iirc the pipe pumps at a pace of 2 redstone engines. Even that x8 is nothing compared to a single standard Electric engine.

or even a single stirling engine

Redstone engines pump at a rate of 1MJ/s
whilst a stirling engine pumps at a rate of 1MJ/t (20x faster)

 

[rhn]

A simple and relative fast way without fuel/energy is a normal wooden pipe, autarchic gate pulsing(equivalent to around 8 redstone engines) and then 4 redstone engines around the pipe(Leave the engines running all the time, they pump faster the hotter they get). It should move around 12 items per sec roughly. Else I prefer a single electric engine controlled by a gate listening for items in inventory. Depending on how often items need to be moves, 1-2 solar panels and a batbox should be able to keep it running.

 

[Manetheren1012]

would redstone energy conduits work?

 

[rhn]

would redstone energy conduits work?

No don't think so. They wont connect. Think pipe only interacts directly with engines.

 

[rhn]

Oh, as Adonis0 mentioned, you can power the pipe with a Redstone energy cell. Seems to work quite well. It does consume Mj continuously though, but that can ofc be remedied with a gate turning the cell on and off.

 

[Manetheren1012]

oh, of course, and i could also edit the MJ used in the output options. the only other thing that i have considered is using a commercial steam engine on one, because i have a boiler based power system.

 

[ratchet freak]

really? i didnt know that. I just use wooden pipes with an autarcic gate and it pulls really slowly.

you can use a autarchic diamond gate and have multiple energy pulsers active

if there 8 active it will pull out a stack at the time

 

[PierceSG]

you can use a autarchic diamond gate and have multiple energy pulsers active

if there 8 active it will pull out a stack at the time

I said that too but rhn said otherwise. /shrug
If BC is available, I would use the diamond aut. gate method instead for compactness.

 

[rhn]

I said that too but rhn said otherwise. /shrug
If BC is available, I would use the diamond aut. gate method instead for compactness.

Nah I was trying to say that activating the Automated Wooden transport pipe multiple times would make much different I thought.
But does an autarchic gate pulsing multiple times really work? Always assumed that a gate could only really pulse once.

Edit: No your right, it works, just tested it. An iron autarchic gate pulsing 2 times is twice as fast as a normal autarchic gate. Seems a bit OP, but very handy.

 

[Manetheren1012]

Thanks for the details guys, im definately gonna use this. Btw i am playing on unleashed 1.1.3