Issue trying to automate smoothies

[Cydonia8]

Hi !

I wanted to automate Hunger Overhaul's smoothies production, I have a Melon Farm (with some MFR machines) that send melons into a pipe periodically (around 3 per minute) and then into a cyclic assembler containing the recipe.

I also have a glacial precipitator to automate the creation of snowballs, that also sends its products to the cyclic assembler.

At the beginning, smoothies are crafted and everything goes great. However, after some time, the cyclic assembler is filled with snowballs, leaving no place for melons to come in.

How can I fix this ?

Thank you by advance.

 

[Niels Henriksen]

If you have Translocators (http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/translocators.28512/) then you can use them to limit the amount of items in the cyclic assember inventory.

 

[belgabor]

You should tell us which mod pack you play so we know what mods we have to suggest with

 

[Cydonia8]

Thanks Niels but I am playing on the Monster modpack and I don't have Translocators available.

Sorry to have forgotten this

 

[belgabor]

If you don't want to add anything, Supplier Logistics Pipes are probably your best bet.

 

[Adonis0]

I'm curious about this problem myself

Is there any way to do this with thermal expansion alone, or are cross mods the only way to do it?

 

[belgabor]

Is there any way to do this with thermal expansion alone

I'm pretty sure the answer is no.

 

[CaseyRobinson]

I think you could do it if the melons and snowballs are first placed separate chests, then you do something painful with comparators and redstone so that they are pulled out in pairs. Or maybe instead only pipe in snowballs if the assembler is half full.

Ohh, how's this for an idea -- put a cheapo leadstone cell between your existing power line and the glacial thingy, and choke down it's RF output so the snowball production rate matches the melon slice production rate.

Crossmod ways will probably be easier. Crafty turtle (or just plain turtle) would be my choice.

 

[CarbonBasedGhost]

You could use the buildcraft crafter and have to separate supply chests.

 

[Cydonia8]

@CaseyRobinson: Turtles are probably a good choice. However, what do you mean by "or just plain turtle" ? If it is just plain, you would use it to place items directly into the cyclic assembler ?

@CarbonBasedGhost: But then how would you extract from both chests simultaneously ?

 

[YX33A]

CarbonBasedGhost: But then how would you extract from both chests simultaneously ?

Hoppers. I mean, is it that hard to guess? They respond to redstone, so some clever redstone setups could allow for one to pull them both at the same rate, and throttle it based upon how much you have of either one. May need to think outside the block, but it's totally possible with just vanilla redstone, and few things are as OP as vanilla players with a idea and time on their hands.

 

[CaseyRobinson]

@CaseyRobinson: Turtles are probably a good choice. However, what do you mean by "or just plain turtle" ? If it is just plain, you would use it to place items directly into the cyclic assembler ?

Yes, exactly that. Just doing a sit & spin between 2 chests and and the assembler.

The Buildcraft Autocrafting Table (Auto Workbench) will keep 1 melon slice in inventory which new ones will stack with, so that might be a good way to go. It's pretty slow, but shouldn't have a problem with 3x/minute.

The Buildcraft Advanced Crafting table claims it will pull from adjacent inventories, but then you have to deal with frickin' laser beams.