Potentia automation?

[Crownz04]

Looking for a change to using MPS, and going to go with Thaumcraft/Tinkerer to arm myself with some enchants along the way. However, the idea of the Thaumostatic Harness's potentia needs gives me cause for alarm. I'm trying to figure out a way to automate the production of just Potentia (or close to it). I wanted some help brainstorming.

The first way I'm thinking is to have a set crucible with a hopper, chest on top, me export bus, exporting redstone. On the side will be a turtle with a wand of adept, set to maybe every 30 seconds? Then golems will refill the crucible, and put the potentia into some warded jars. The only thing I don't like about this is having to come back to the base to refill...

Maybe a turtle breaks the jar, places it into an ender chest? I have a linked ender pouch on my end, and maybe I can keep some empty warded jars in the chest as well?

I wonder if this would work at all. How would you guys automate Potentia?

 

[Crownz04]

Scratch what I said before. Hoppers won't dump into a crucible, but I found a way around that. I give you my Essentia creation:

This first picture is showing the warded jars along the right with orange marker blocks. The tallow golems are armed with phials they get from a chest filled with them, marked orange as well. I have 3 Arcane Alembic's around a crucible. The crucible is refilled by a tallow golem armed with a bucket, and a white marker block under my infinite water source. On top of the crucible is a dropper from vanilla minecraft, pointed downwards.

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There's a rednet cable connected to the top of the dropper, and then connected to the programmable rednet controller. These are my settings for the controller:

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Here's my small ME system, and all I have is a basic export bus, set to export redstone into the hopper (since I'm working on Potentia). I might set up a Precision Export bus for it, just so I can throw an "Active with redstone signal" flag for it, to turn it off when I don't want to use it.

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Now, to empty the crucible, I am using a Wand Turtle from MiscPeripherals. You craft it by placing the turtle, and wand of the adept in a crafting field. I simply have it setup to empty the crucible every 30 seconds, using this script:

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So far, just from testing a few moment, it seems I can fill quite a few jars rather quickly. I'd assume you can use this to filled up on any aspects you want. Any ideas how I can improve, or see any potential problems?

 

[Niels Henriksen]

Looks interesting. I just have a problem with making the tallow golem But it would be nice to have many jars filled with aspects.

 

[Crownz04]

What do you mean by problems with the tallow golems?

 

[namae]

Does it really consumes so much potentia you actually need an automation system for that? Btw you can dump multiple items (like 4 alembics will capture essentia from 32 redstones in one go). And you should probably try decanting golem, since he does not need phials at all.

 

[Niels Henriksen]

What do you mean by problems with the tallow golems?

I have problems on researching them

 

[Crownz04]

Does it really consumes so much potentia you actually need an automation system for that? Btw you can dump multiple items (like 4 alembics will capture essentia from 32 redstones in one go). And you should probably try decanting golem, since he does not need phials at all.

Honestly, after bouncing around my Bee world, and the mining age, I still have about half left. I guess I was prepared for the worst...heh...

But really, this can be used to gather mass essentia for anything really, without paying much attention to it. I haven't played THAT much into Thaumcraft, so I'm not really sure if you need a whole stock of stuff.

I have problems on researching them

I keep putting rotten flesh and silver ingots into the research table until I finally got it.

 

[Crownz04]

I should add just one more thing to this:

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Pretty Lights of Death

Now to figure a way to clean this mess up...

 

[namae]

Set up a mob grinder for wisp essence. Also you should rework your system since it shouldn't leave any flux at all

 

[Crownz04]

Good idea about a mob grinder, I'll get right on it...

And that's what I thought as well. Only producing Potentia and Machina since it's just Redstone. I'm thinking my timing is off, and I'm producing more then the alembic's can hold.

It's going to take some experimenting...

 

[PierceSG]

MFR Grinders! Waste not, want not.