Cyclic Assembler Question

[Recon]

I'm using the Cyclic Assembler to process pumpkins from my MFR Harvester, into seeds to feed into a Squeezer.

However I just noticed a black liquid gauge on the interface which goes up by 10mB every time a pumpkin enters the machine. This is whether I have it turned on or off, it just keeps counting up. The max limit says 10,000mB so I'm hoping this isn't the point where it stops working. The system itself is functioning just fine, although the amount of seed oil I get from seeds seems to have gone down since I last used this in 1.4.7. I only get 3mB of seed oil per seed now, where I'm pretty sure it used to be a lot more.

Anyway, what's the gauge for, and why does it keep going up when the machine receives something into its inventory?

 

[Ako_the_Builder]

The black liquid will be sludge that is produced as a byproduct from the mfr harvester, it can be put through a sludge boiler to crate a myriad of blocks (dirt, clay, sand, quicksand, soul sand, mud etc... (it's a good clay source)) or it can be ignored (harvester full of sludge will not stop because of sludge). I'm not 100#% sure on what happens if the cyclic is full of sludge but I'd be confident in saying it shouldn't stop your seed production.

 

[Recon]

Oh. Of course. It makes sense that its sludge, I just didn't expect it to come into the same input as the pumpkins into a thermal expansion machine. Thanks.

 

[Jadedcat]

Oh. Of course. It makes sense that its sludge, I just didn't expect it to come into the same input as the pumpkins into a thermal expansion machine. Thanks.

If your assembler is directly connected to the harvester... yes. The harvester will out put items to any valid item inventory and liquid to any valid liquid inventory. The assembler is both a valid liquid and item inventory. Move the assembler 1 block away and use an item transport pipe if you only want the items going into the assembler. Or ignore it.