Hello all. I am currently playing in a single player world where I am using four quarries. These quarries are approximately 250m from my base. I use an ender chest to transport all of the materials to processing, where they are split between going to further processing or recyclers. Here is the problem-Every now and then, I notice that my processors and recyclers aren't receiving anything. So I have to run over to the quarries and then it receives material again for a while. I have placed world anchors and chunk loaders at my quarries but I am still running into this problem. Is there something I am missing here? I appreciate any help.
Problem with Chunks
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@vScourge - Yes, they are all fueled
@Exedra - That was my impression at first too, but something is preventing items to be loaded into the ender chest at the quarries. My recycler setup should have an almost constant flow of dirt, gravel, cobblestone, sandstone, and marble, yet at times nothing comes through so I am at a loss for what the problem is. My 4 quarries form one large square where the center of the square is where the actual quarry machines are. This is also where the ender chest is placed. I'm sure that it's something simple that I am missing or need to adjust.
Oh, and the quarries are all 40x40
<Edit> I wanted to add another tidbit to this setup. The quarries are powered by electric engines that feed from solar panels that are roughly halfway between the quarries and my base (about 130m) from base. Could this be a matter of the power being cut because its chunk is unloaded?
Thanks for the replies.
@Exedra - That was my impression at first too, but something is preventing items to be loaded into the ender chest at the quarries. My recycler setup should have an almost constant flow of dirt, gravel, cobblestone, sandstone, and marble, yet at times nothing comes through so I am at a loss for what the problem is. My 4 quarries form one large square where the center of the square is where the actual quarry machines are. This is also where the ender chest is placed. I'm sure that it's something simple that I am missing or need to adjust.
Oh, and the quarries are all 40x40
<Edit> I wanted to add another tidbit to this setup. The quarries are powered by electric engines that feed from solar panels that are roughly halfway between the quarries and my base (about 130m) from base. Could this be a matter of the power being cut because its chunk is unloaded?
Thanks for the replies.
Well, that's odd. As that shouldn't happen at all. You have ensured that everything at your quarry sites is sitting in chunks that are loaded? Quarries only keep the chunks loaded that contain the hole, so it's possible to build into a neighboring chunk that doesn't get loaded.
Can't be more helpful then that I'm afraid.
Can't be more helpful then that I'm afraid.
So the quarry block auto-loads chunk it's sitting in, and the chunks touched by the quarry frames. It may not be covering the output chest or your pipes/blocks powering it. Look for those falling just on the other side of a chunk border or something. Although if you have a World Anchor sitting there, that's 9 chunks loaded around that by default, so odds are you're fine there.
Okay, thanks. I seem to have resolved the issue by placing Personal World Anchors at the ender chest location, the power supply solar panels, and back in my processing plant. It has run unabated now for the past 1.5 hours, roughly. Thanks all for the advice.
The problem was the power, if I understand it correctly. Without power the quarry won't work and if the power generation (the solar panels) is unloaded, it won't generate. This also includes all the chunks, where needed powerlines are running. So if you have the panels in chunk A, quarry+engines in chunk D and wires runnging from A to B to C to D and only chunk A and D are loaded (B and C unloaded), then no power will reach the engines and no work will be done.
Actually I think he was saying that the chuncks with the wires running between the chunks that held both the quarry and the power system need to be loaded. If any of the chunks in the system come unloaded then it functions like a break in the wire.. everything stops.