Factorization and GregTech

[RavynousHunter]

Long story short, I'm trying to make, in creative mode (just as a proof-of-concept kinda thing), a way to auto-fuel a fusion reactor using a combination of Factorization, GregTech (duh), PowerCraft, BuildCraft, and Thermal Expansion. My current setup is thus...


Its a bit spread out, but you get the picture. The IESU at the left there is linked to its partner on my roof, which is being fed by some HV solar arrays. I, eventually, solved the problems of getting water -into- the industrial electrolyzers in the first place (liquiducts, y u no work?), and how to magic up an endless supply of tin for cells.

My current problem, however, is how to get the routers to both insert the empty cells into their proper spaces (bottom left slot), and extracting the finished products out of the top and into some kinda buffer system or something, for later processing. I also, eventually, want to store the deuterium and tritium in a pair of 12x12x12 Xycraft tanks, because of the universal Rule of Cool (I like gigantic, full tanks of things), which I'll package up and pass off into my eventual fusion reactor.

So, uh...anyone know how to get routers and industrial elecrtrolyzers to play nicely with one another? I REALLY don't want to have to strip this down and rebuild it with some complicated system of tubes and shit. That, and I want more experience with Factorization, considering I've not yet touched it outside barrels and wrath lamps.

 

[hotblack desiato]

I think, greg optimizes everything for his own transportsystem. this means, you need to take a closer look at these translocators. applied energistics should work too.

regarding those cells, I'd set up an igneous extruder feeding a magma crucible, feeding a bunch of industrial centrifuges. this way, you also get tons of copper and electrum...

 

[noskk]

I'd say forget about factorization for this case and use the GT inventory manager, that one single block is enough to put specific item in+out (yes, both with 1 single block) of the fusion reactor from/to a specific slot/side (top, bottom, east, etc).

 

[bob marley]

OR... try using item upgrades on router you can then specify what item to put in or pull out of what slot.

 

[Sinnaj63]

I would suggest you to not automate Fusion yet, since Greg gonna change it completly for 1.5.

 

[RavynousHunter]

OR... try using item upgrades on router you can then specify what item to put in or pull out of what slot.

I did, that's the problem. I can't find the right slot, and I've tried all the directions (top, bottom, east, etc) and slots 0-99. Not a bloody thing. I think I may just have to knuckle under and use GT's inventory management system, since I don't have Applied Energistics installed just yet. Actually, this brings up another point I had a question about...does anyone know of the latest version of PowerCraft is compatible with the latest Direwolf20 pack? I tried it with Mindcrack, along with my usual standards of Treecapitator, MPS, and Mystcraft, and I always got a black screen shortly after the Mojang logo popped up. So, as one might expect, I'm ever so slightly leery of updating my pack just yet...I've grown accustomed to PowerCraft, lol.

I would suggest you to not automate Fusion yet, since Greg gonna change it completly for 1.5.

Lots of things are gonna change for 1.5. Hell, RedPower might be completely different for 1.5, for all we know. Doesn't mean I shouldn't experiment. Look at it this way: the same could be said even once the 1.5 updates come around, since different content may come along in 1.6, then in 1.7, 1.8, so on and so forth. At some point, you gotta stop worrying about doing things for fear of future problems, and just do shit and have fun while ya can.

 

[Sinnaj63]

I did, that's the problem. I can't find the right slot, and I've tried all the directions (top, bottom, east, etc) and slots 0-99. Not a bloody thing. I think I may just have to knuckle under and use GT's inventory management system, since I don't have Applied Energistics installed just yet. Actually, this brings up another point I had a question about...does anyone know of the latest version of PowerCraft is compatible with the latest Direwolf20 pack? I tried it with Mindcrack, along with my usual standards of Treecapitator, MPS, and Mystcraft, and I always got a black screen shortly after the Mojang logo popped up. So, as one might expect, I'm ever so slightly leery of updating my pack just yet...I've grown accustomed to PowerCraft, lol.



Lots of things are gonna change for 1.5. Hell, RedPower might be completely different for 1.5, for all we know. Doesn't mean I shouldn't experiment. Look at it this way: the same could be said even once the 1.5 updates come around, since different content may come along in 1.6, then in 1.7, 1.8, so on and so forth. At some point, you gotta stop worrying about doing things for fear of future problems, and just do shit and have fun while ya can.

You would not write that if you would have seen Gregs Screenshot showing the new GUI...

 

[noskk]

Yep, it will change a lot, a lot more blocks but less expensive recipe.

http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&postID=104204&highlight=#post104204

 

[RavynousHunter]

You would not write that if you would have seen Gregs Screenshot showing the new GUI...

Allow me to reiterate: this build is purely for my own entertainment, I do not care if FTB's 1.5 release (w/ GT) comes out next month, next week, or even tomorrow. I'm doing this for fun, plain and simple. The only SMP I do is vanilla on my own private server, so I'm not working with anyone else, and even if I were, I still wouldn't give a damn.

Now, completely pointless, off-topic tangent aside, I'm starting to get the basics of GT inventory management. Mostly thru trial and error (mostly error), and mingling it with, primarily, PowerCraft, BuildCraft, Thermal Expansion, and Xycraft. Hell, the only things outside those 4 and GT that I'm working with are Factorization furnace heaters and a little insulated red alloy wire. I've pretty much completely redesigned my layout, and will likely have some screenies up either later today or sometime tomorrow.

Also, for the record, conveyor belts are exceptionally handy when it comes to handling BC transport pipe overflow. No stupid, finnicky obsidian pipes, no needing an entire pipe network just to handle excess, just a set of conveyor belts to take the excess to the desired location, and boom. Done like a pro.

[ETA]

And, as promised, screenshots!

First off, we've got my endless tin/cell production line. The ejector belts are pulsed from the bottom using PowerCraft pulsars which, while being a bit...larger (still 1 block, but visually) than a RP2 timer, produce a LOT less lag. The furnaces are being run via Factorization furnace heaters, again, located beneath the furnaces themselves, to make things pretty.

The basic run is: Mass Fab makes UU-Matter, ejected into a PowerCraft auto-crafting table which produces tin dust, which is ejected into 7 Factorization-powered furnaces. The smelted tin ingots are sent to 4 (in case of an excessive number of ingots going down the line) auto-crafting tables which each make tin cells that are sent down the line to hydrogen processing.


Hydrogen processing line! I realized my biggest mistake in the original design was relying too much Thermal Expansion to handle water production. I simplified the process MASSIVELY by simply making a Xycraft tank that feeds the electrolyzers, which gets its water from, as you can see, 9 xychorium water blocks.

The cells from the UU-Matter production line are split evenly between the two electrolyzers, with diamond chests acting as buffers. Hydrogen and compressed air cells are then sent to the top-most chest, which leads us to...


Hydrogen processing! The two cell types are split: compressed air is sent to an auto-crafting table and turned back into regular cells (which fall on to the overflow belts below), and hydrogen is sent to an extra-dimensional barrel. From here, the hydrogen cells are split in a 6:1 ratio between sent to the centrifuge buffer chest, and sent to the Xycraft tank to the right to store gaseous hydrogen for future (unspecified) use.

The centrifuges, both drawing from the same obsidian chest, have their inventories managed by GT inventory manager blocks (doi), and the resulting deuterium cells are sent to another extra-dimensional barrel where half will be sent to be processed into tritium, and the other half will be sent directly to reactor fuel storage.


Lastly, we've got an overview shot of the whole system, which has the formative deuterium processing line at the forefront of the 2nd processing floor.


Annnnnd, that's what I got so far! I think that shall be it for tonight, I don't want to end up doing this until 4am and burning myself out before its even finished!