Emerald Smeltery Farm in 1.7.10?

[Brian Cherrick]

DW 1.0.2 pack

I have my smeltery setup, and the subsequent villager spawner above it dropping villagers to their deaths. I have two problems.

1. Keeping blood in the smeltery
2. Making sure said blood stays on top

In 1.6.4 we had ducts. With ducts it was easy to rig together, and keep on dumping the blood back in on top. In 1.7.10, with the removal of ducts this is a bit harder. I had set the the ender io conduits to drain only liquid emerald, but there are 2 things wrong with this.

1. It drains to fast if unfiltered, so I can't do no trickery to pump the blood back in.
2. If filtered, the blood will eventually be on bottom, which is a problem.

Anyway around this to fix ?

 

[Jakalth]

Take advantage of mod shedding is one option. a room elevated over flowing water to bring the drops too a hopper. The floor of the room is made of item grates(from thaumcraft, but you can make them without going down the thaumcraft route). Just fill the room with villagers. They will slowly drop emeralds onto the ground below them, which will fall through the item grates and be collected by the water/hopper. It's slow, slower then the emerald smelter, but you don't have to worry about killing the villagers and seperating the emerald and blood.

For the Smeltery option: Add another smeltery drain too the top of your smeltery, only have it pointing down so you can dump fluids into the top of the block instead of dumping out of the sides. With this, make a loop of ender IO conduits that connects from the output drain on the side of the smeltery too your new input drain on the top of the smeltery. Add a filter to this new input that only allows blood to be output back into the smeltery, or blacklist emerald. Now add another conduit going off the side of this loop that connects to your emerald storage or connects too the top of your casting table/basin to make emerald gems/blocks. Have this conduit filtered to only allow emerald to be output. This should allow the emerald to be pulled out and keep the blood at the top of the list by cycling it back into the smeltery similar to how it was done with fluiducts.

 

[ljfa]

Take advantage of mod shedding is one option.

This by the way comes from Botania.

 

[Maelstraz]

MFR, Liquid Router. Just suck everything out and send blood back to smeltery through other drain.

 

[AttackOfTheCreepers]

I've never actually done it myself but I always thought you could set up two drains on the smeltery and using one to suck out the blood and send it back (whitelist blood) and the other to suck out the other good stuff, I'm a noob though so could be a bit wrong.

 

[tedyhere]

Using enderIO conduits you can set them for certain liquids either through the GUI or I believe you can get a bucket of what you want and right click the conduit with it.

 

[namiasdf]

The best option would be to obtain a bucket of blood, then add that to the black/white list of an ender IO fluid conduit output. The blacklisted side would be into a basin, and the whitelisted side would lead back into the smeltery.

It is possible to pipe liquids back into the smeltery.