How to build 800+ Coke Oven setups semi automated??

[Chrissy]

If you have flat bedrock and build a tower of them up to y 73 you can fit 288 of them in one chunk. On one level you can place 16 coke ovens with one space between them and between 1-73 (73 would be the roof over the last oven) you would have 18 levels that would consist of floor - oven - floor - oven. So for 288 you would need a 16x72x16 area, while for 1152 ovens you would need a 32x72x32 area. Technically the areas would be 15 wide and long, but you'd need spaces which can be placed along the chunk boundaries so you keep the ovens within 15x15 areas.

wouldn't that be ludicrously inefficient, Unnecessary and expensive?

 

[Daemonblue]

Yea, I was actually thinking about that as I was typing it tbh. It doesn't help that I was doing the calculations while tired and angry (something unrelated regarding my shitty isp). But yea, it would only cut off floor 64, not 63. Of course for floors the equation would be 4n in context of the space of a coke oven, also I wasn't sure if the highest block you can place is 256 (making it foot position 257), or if was 255 (making it foot position 256). This is important cause it should mean you can fit 16 more coke ovens in for 1024 coke ovens per chunk. In fact, lemme check really quickly.

Yea, the highest you can place a block seems to actually be 254 (foot position 255) so 63 ovens vertically is the limit with 2 blocks left of vertical building room above the top oven.

Edit: I'm not saying it would be effective at all, just pointing out that it's not nearly as much as you would think to get over 800 ovens. I also personally would never think of doing this due to the piping involved and the obvious massive amount of lag this would inevitably produce.

 

[BanzaiBlitz]

Using the glory of AE, and resulting lack of pipe-transported entities, it might be a lot less laggy. No way around liquid pipes unless you use some tricks. I think fabricators (1 per 2 coke ovens) canning it all before dumping to AE network. Really need to test more AE.

Processor power for running that many ovens is another story though.

 

[Daemonblue]

Well you could possibly use a silly trick with normal chests and Factorization routers so all the coke ovens are connected and you have all the wood input from routers and all the creosote gets bottled into glass bottles, then removed via other routers. You could probably do this with a single router for wood and another bottles with the proper upgrades depending on how fast the ovens cook as well, but the fact that you'd be using 1008 multiblock structures at once alone is what would crush most low end systems. It just reminds me of some redstone engine farms.

 

[arentol]

Yea, I was actually thinking about that as I was typing it tbh. It doesn't help that I was doing the calculations while tired and angry (something unrelated regarding my shitty isp). But yea, it would only cut off floor 64, not 63.

Yeah, I figured it was just a simple brain-fart, as it is exactly the kind of minor mistake I make half the time when I try to do math on forums.

 

[Harvest88]

As far as I know Multiblocks don't hog down the servers unless it's A) automated incorrectly and/or chunkloaded inefficiently, B) make a ton and half like by the 1000's or C) they're unfinished. I'm building my with tubes and liquiducts and yea AE is just wayy far out of reach for 720+ ovens.. Powering it not the problem, it's the stupid quartz.. Going to make a few more than needed so the tubing and relay never jam and use a retriever with a single timer every other second should not create too many entities in the pipeline. I'll probably need 4 solar panels and a pair of batteries to power the retriever for enough bluelectric day/night. This facility will provide ample amount of creosote to any one who want to make rails on my server and don't have to deal with people doing it incorrectly just to "speed things up". Any excess I'll fire up like 4 or so HP boilers on that "free" oil! Edit here 72 ready for firing. I'm going to make 9 "layers" of these. The best way to build this the fastest if I could get some people on the server to help out. I just had it shutdown just because I wanted to get some plugins and got Condensed Blocks mod on the server. (if your interested just PM me and then I can link you to my thread on this forum)

 

[JackHD]

You would need like, a 2400X2400 for all those, How or why would you need such a thing
It would take a larger building then THAT to even hold the stuff, Unless i misunderstood, in what case correct me

He cheats items in, that's why he has so much