Golem Help: Liquid Transposer -> Factorization Mixer

[Delcar]

Hey all, it may be fatigue, but I can't figure out where I'm messing this up, because it -should- work.

My goal - have pipes drop empty buckets in the Liquid Transposer, and then a stone/clay golem team take the full buckets to the mixer

I can't tell if the stone golem can't register the Liquid transposer as a valid inventory to pull from or if he's on the wrong side.

Transposer has energy, and a water input. I've loaded a manual bucket, and it fills just fine.

I've given the Stone Golem a bucket saying 'this item'
I've marked a nearby chest with white.
I've set the golem both to any color, and just white.
I've tried piping from different sizes to allow him to pull from below or top or side.

... he still stands there doing nothing.


On the other side, skipping ahead as it were, I manually place a bucket in the white marked chest, and tell the clay golem to keep it filled, and he does so - in the wrong side of the mixer... I've moved him around as well and same problem.

Edit: Ok, placing the clay golem on top works fine. So its just loading the chests with buckets of water. I don't -need- to do that with golems of course, but now I want to do it for looks/feel/fun etc.

 

[Icarus White]

I seem to recall messing around with the mixer before - it only inputs on the top, and outputs to the sides.

Did you try setting a side of the transposer to output, then assigning the golem to that side?

 

[Delcar]

You're right on the mixer - once I set the golem on top it worked fine.

I've opened every side other than the one with the incoming pipe, and still no luck with the stone golem pulling from the transposer.

 

[Zjarek_S]

Try assigning golem to the grey side. Normal output sides don't count as inventories IIRC.

 

[Delcar]

Excellent -thank you- by changing it to the non-colored hole he started immediately.

 

[Delcar]

I'm going to keep updating this for any other would-be golemancers, and my own reference.

Experiments continue. Latest snag:

Now I have 2 clay and 2 stone golems.

1. One stone golem takes the full bucket from the transposer, drops it in the chest, and his paired clay golem takes it to the mixer.
2. The 2nd stone golem empties the mixer into the chest, where the 2nd clay golem takes the empty bucket AND PUTS IT IN THE WRONG SLOT OF THE TRANSPOSER.
3. 2nd clay golem is currently re-assigned to take the washed copper chunks to the next step of the process, which he does just fine - clearly a 3rd set of stone/clay workers should continue the process. (Right now, single ore - intelligence upgrades should allow the clay golems to handle multiple ores, but I've done a fluxton of damage to my local aura, so testing will wait for now)

 

[Icarus White]

Re: 2.

One simple workaround would be to stick a hopper on top of the transposer and assign the golem to that. That would force the empty bucket into the input of the transposer.
It's interesting to hear that the grey slots are output slots only, though. It doesn't matter which side/top it is?

 

[KirinDave]

A golem interacts with the side of the block that a marker is on for inputs if there is a marker there to work with, for reference. I've gotten them to work with TE machines.

 

[Delcar]

Great tips about the hopper and the markers - I hadn't thought of that...

After further fussing around, I was able to do it without markers; the clay golem is now refilling the liquid transposer from the back slot, which is blue.

Re: 2.

It's interesting to hear that the grey slots are output slots only, though. It doesn't matter which side/top it is?

I think its no color, which IIRC means either input or output? I'll test later.

So I now have the first stage of factorization ore production automated; next is deciding whether to do separate lines for copper and gold or 'reprogram' the golems as needed.