Liquiduct Oddities

[eable2]

My understanding of liquiducts is that when connecting it to a liquid inventory, you must 1) wrench it into output mode and 2) apply a redstone signal to pump out liquid. In practice, I find this to almost always be true. Twice, however, I've had oddly different behavior. I use the Mindcrack pack.

1. I have an aqueous accumulator surrounded by water connected to my industrial grinder via liquiduct. It's configured correctly, and works. - but only when NOT when switched into output mode. What?

2. I have an 8x8x3 iron tank that has biofuel, and I want to put it in a steam boiler. The tank is hardly full (it's connected to an automated system that I will turn on when I'm ready). I can't, however, seem to output any biofuel into liquiducts at all from a valve at the top of the tank. Is that an issue with liquiducts or with the tank (i.e. do I need to put a valve at the bottom of the tank)?

Thanks in advance!

 

[DVeagle74]

1) I am not sure what is going on there.

2) that is a function of the tanks. To output you need to have the valve in either of the bottom two rows.

 

[Abdiel]

Some machines have a "powered" output, which means you don't need a pipe pulling items or liquids out, the machine will do that automatically. This means you don't need a wooden pipe, or an outputting liquiduct. I am not quite sure why the outputting setting doesn't work though... is that a problem for your setup?

Q2 has already been answered.

 

[King Lemming]

Q1: Liquiducts do not have an "output" mode. It's a forced extraction mode - only use this when you need to actively force an extraction. TE machines do not actually need this - it's basically for stuff from other mods.

 

[Squigie]

By default an aqueous accumulator will turn off when receiving a redstone signal. This can be changed by opening the redstone tab on its GUI.

Other TE machines, BC pumps, and steam boilers also have a powered output. Mostly, anything that outputs liquid but does not have a liquid pumped into it.

 

[eable2]

Thanks all!

 

[Abdiel]

Aaaargh... so funny story.

I noticed my steam engines were not running. They had fuel in them, they had a redstone signal, so I was like... wtf. Then I noticed there was no water going into them through liquiducts. I noticed the output liquiduct on the accumulator providing water. I remembered this thread and cleverly hit the liquiduct with a wrench.

One explosion later, I realized what happens to steam engines when they go without water for a while.

 

[Setari]

Aaaargh... so funny story.

I noticed my steam engines were not running. They had fuel in them, they had a redstone signal, so I was like... wtf. Then I noticed there was no water going into them through liquiducts. I noticed the output liquiduct on the accumulator providing water. I remembered this thread and cleverly hit the liquiduct with a wrench.

One explosion later, I realized what happens to steam engines when they go without water for a while.

I hope my boiler never has a freak accident and runs out of water. Because I won't remember this.


36HP boiler lol. It'd blow our base sky high.

 

[Dafuq?]

Lol I had to learn that the hard way too, luckily it was just a bunch of hobbyist steam engines. I have to admit that I'm also a little scared of my steam boiler. I play modded minecraft for more than 18 months now, but I still regularly blow up my IC2 machines by forgetting to put in transformer upgrades BEFORE hooking them up to MV power. And I read somewhere that exploding steam boilers have an effect quite similar to a nuke. Might not be a terribly bad idea to add some kind of blast protection, just in case...

 

[Vovk]

it is in no way similar to a nuke.

depending on the heat in a nuclear reactor. you can level an entire base without blast protection.

I had an unprotected steam boiler running in the middle of my FTB Beta A base when a bug with aqueous accumulators cut off the water supply then resupplied upon unloading and reloading the chunk. The resulting explosion took out around half of the steam boiler and some of the surrounding pipes, levers, and torches. To reiterate, I had maybe 10-15 blocks of air separating the explosions, so I would most liken it to a single TNT charge going off in the center of the boiler and moreover - the boiler acted at a stone level of hardness when interacting with the explosion.

 

[Dafuq?]

Thank you Vovk, that puts my mind at ease a little bit... Maybe I will now be able to stop checking on the water level everytime I pass by my boiler...

 

[Omicron]

A friend managed to detonate his 36 HP boiler by bee breeding. True story.

What happened? Well, he was keeping his bees in a house adjacent to the boiler, and succeeded in breeding a line of bees which had the side effect of randomly turning water blocks into ice. Turns out that the aqueous accumulator sitting with its two sourceblocks under the boiler outside was just in range...

 

[Carrington]

it is in no way similar to a nuke.

depending on the heat in a nuclear reactor. you can level an entire base without blast protection.

I had an unprotected steam boiler running in the middle of my FTB Beta A base when a bug with aqueous accumulators cut off the water supply then resupplied upon unloading and reloading the chunk. The resulting explosion took out around half of the steam boiler and some of the surrounding pipes, levers, and torches. To reiterate, I had maybe 10-15 blocks of air separating the explosions, so I would most liken it to a single TNT charge going off in the center of the boiler and moreover - the boiler acted at a stone level of hardness when interacting with the explosion.

Reinforce all rooms with iridium stone! Take THAT, exploding things!

 

[Abdiel]

Iridium reinforced vacuum-hardened tungstensteel blocks. Only way to be sure.

 

[BanzaiBlitz]

As far as I know, a boiler explodes in a manner similar to a trucker after too much chili.

Mostly just blows out the bottom and makes a mess.

 

[DZCreeper]

Thank you for that mental image, you just erased the productivity from my Minecraft world.