Iron tank

[Zackeri]

How do I get lava out of it? Does it need to go into a buildcraft tank first then into a geothermal generator? Can geothermal generators get lava from the top?

 

[NLkippetjeNL]

You need a valve block to pump out off should automatically flow out if you hookup pipes to it.

 

[Bibble]

As above, the iron tank will only interact with the outside world on valve blocks. Also, it'll need a push to move the liquid. This can come in the form of a liquiduct (correctly configured, and supplied with a redstone signal) or a wooden waterproof pipe and redstone engine/autarchic gate combination.

It shouldn't need to go through a buildcraft tank first, but just be able to pipe directly into an accepting machine.

Also, it must have lava in it first.

 

[Golrith]

Bit of a hi-jack, but related, can I break the tank to make it the next larger size, without losing all the contents in the tank? I have a 3x3 floorspace tank, and I'd like to boost it to a 5x5 tank.
Not a big deal with I lose all the liquid, as it's just biogas, which is easy to produce.

 

[Zackeri]

I had it in a valve and a liquiduct but I thought the liquiduct needed an engine!! Thanks guys

 

[Exedra]

Yeah, you won't lose any. Tank data is stored in the bottom center block.

 

[NLkippetjeNL]

You should be able to do that if you don't break the most center block in the tanks bottum layer, but I am not sure about that

 

[Peppe]

Bit of a hi-jack, but related, can I break the tank to make it the next larger size, without losing all the contents in the tank? I have a 3x3 floorspace tank, and I'd like to boost it to a 5x5 tank.
Not a big deal with I lose all the liquid, as it's just biogas, which is easy to produce.

You can modify a tank as long as the bottom center block does not get removed.

 

[KriiEiter]

Also, you can input liquids from any valve on the tank, but you can only draw liquid out through valves on the bottom 2 layers of the tank.

 

[Zackeri]

Also, you can input liquids from any valve on the tank, but you can only draw liquid out through valves on the bottom 2 layers of the tank.

This would be my problem

 

[Abdiel]

Also, you can input liquids from any valve on the tank, but you can only draw liquid out through valves on the bottom 2 layers of the tank.

I thought you could draw from anywhere, but only if the liquid in tank reaches that high. Am I wrong?

(I never really tried, I always put valves on the bottommost level.)

 

[KirinDave]

Just a note, redpower 2 fluid work with these tanks and don't require a redstone signal.

 

[eculc]

Just a note, redpower 2 fluid work with these tanks and don't require a redstone signal.

correct, but it DOES require a pump IIRC, which requires blutricity. So, it's probably easier to just use Redstone

 

[KirinDave]

correct, but it DOES require a pump IIRC, which requires blutricity. So, it's probably easier to just use Redstone

Outputs from tanks do not require pumps. See DW's most recent spotlight for it in action.

 

[Golrith]

IIRC, the tank will put some pressure on the liquid for short distance with Red Power liquid tubes, but longer distance will need a pump.

 

[Bibble]

Yes, RP2 fluid pipes will get 100 pressure units from most sources (which is enough to carry 100 blocks, without splits). The RP2 grates require at least 100 pressure units to activate (as you lose pressure the further down the pipe, this means that a pump is required to activate a grate).

 

[Hydra]

You should also look into liquiducts. I really like them.

 

[mcfmullen]

I am trying to connect my 5x5 iron tank filled with lava from the nether to a magma dynamo powering an induction smelter but it won't work.

All the tutorials talk about waterproof pipes, liquiducts and magmatic engines. I have neither in Direwol 20 (1.6.4). Instead, I have fluid pipes, magma dynamos and fluiducts.

I managed to guess around how to work transporting lava from the nether using fluiducts and logisitics fluid basic pipes (BC fluid pipes don't connect to the tesseract).

The same setup doesn't seem to work in the overworld. I am unable to connect wooden fluid pipes to the iron tank. The fluiducts don't fill with lava but do connect to the valve. The logistics pipes don't seem to work either (though they do connect to the valve).

Can someone help me figure out how to extract the lava using logistics pipes or fluiducts and connect them to both the tank and dynamo?

Thanks!

 

[PierceSG]

Thermal Expansion 3's Fluiducts requires you to wrench the connection on the iron tank's connecting point to output mode (red arrow out), and supply a redstone signal. Or you could upgrade that particular section of fluiduct with a servo by right clicking the fluiduct with a servo in your hand, then right click that section again with bare hands to access the GUI where you can enable/disable the redstone signal strength requirements.

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[krugle]

It should be noted too that if someone filled their tank and either have it already max size or cannot expand it they can add another tank above or below it and as long as the valves line up the tanks will fill up together without the need for extra piping.