[Infinity] Router Alternative?

[Timb]

Greetings,

After a rather long hiatus from playing, I have come back to FTB Infinity. I notice that Factorization is not part of this pack, thus no Router. Is there an alternative to Factorization's Router that I can use to control input/output of large "blocks" of machinery?

Mainly what I'm trying to avoid is having to use three sides of each piece of machinery, thereby making my large block of machinery look like a large block of crap. With the router, it was nice and clean. Power to the rear of the machine, one router controlling input to the block, and one router controlling output of the block.

Thoughts?

 

[Cpt_gloval]

Ender io. All connections in one block space.
Item Conduit set to in/out and filtered as needed.

 

[jordsta95]

Mainly what I'm trying to avoid is having to use three sides of each piece of machinery

Power to the rear of the machine, one router controlling input to the block, and one router controlling output of the block.

Sounds like 3 sides used to me... I never used routers though.
You could always use a block extender (e.g. transvector interface, I think it is called) just to hide all the input/output/power piping in the floor

 

[Timb]

Ender io. All connections in one block space.
Item Conduit set to in/out and filtered as needed.

Ah, EnderIO conduits are multi? Nice. That will work wonderfully then.

Sounds like 3 sides used to me... I never used routers though.
You could always use a block extender (e.g. transvector interface, I think it is called) just to hide all the input/output/power piping in the floor

With routers you were using just one side of the machines for power aside from two machines in the block. So for example, with a wall of Redstone Furnaces, you would place one router under the first furnace (under the floorline to keep it hidden.) You would have power conduits rolling to the back of the wall of furnaces like normal. Then you would have another router under the last furnace. Then you could pipe in what materials you wanted cooked to the router and the router would then send the materials to the entire block of machines it was connected to. The second router would then pull the output from the entire block of machines. It was a little "magic" like in terms of not having pipes, but it was awesome to have a giant wall of pulverizers, furnaces, etc without having the conduits/pipes/etc there making it look like ass.

 

[jordsta95]

...having the conduits/pipes/etc there making it look like ass.

I find the fun is in the making. If you make something look good, and work, doing it as originally intended, then it is more fun than making something look good using EnderIOP to compress everything into one block (which was never the intended way of automating stuff).

It would be like if the Thaumcraft Altar was overhauled by a new mod, let's call it ThaumicIO, that makes it so you can place a pedestal on a chest, with a matrix above it, and will use the items in the chest like the items that you place on the pedestals surrounding the altar.
Yes, it is now SUPER easy to automate the Infusion Altar, but that doesn't make it fun

 

[Master_Builder_800]

I think steve's factory manager can do the same thing, and can multitask, such as after taking out the item use it to craft etc

 

[asb3pe]

Ah, EnderIO conduits are multi? Nice. That will work wonderfully then.

Yeah, they are far and above any other conduit in modded minecraft. When you have the multi-connections, it can be a bit of a pain to remove a specific conduit, so be sure to use the different modes on the Yeta Wrench. I just use the mouse wheel to change wrench modes. You can cycle thru seeing only power, or only fluid, or only item conduits, or seeing all the conduits at once, which makes it easy to remove the single conduit from the machine while leaving all the others in place if you need to do that.

 

[Inaeo]

Steve's Factory Manager is the new router, with nearly endless solutions. It takes a little getting used to to program, but its the most overpowered mod since ComputerCraft (only easier to program).

 

[Zelfana]

Thermal Dynamics has fluctuating itemducts and flux-plated fluiducts for combined RF+item and RF+fluid transport respectively in the same pipe so you can save a face with those.