Question about Automated Item Dispersal

[Gregory Wollf]

I am still fairly new to Minecraft Mods. I'm running the Tech World 2 pack on the FTB launcher.

I have a tree farm with a Steve's Carts 2 cart that I want to run indefinitely (aside from when the tool breaks and needs repairing of course). The cart has both a solar and a coal engine so that it can fallback on coal power when the trees block the sun.

I want to create an automated system where the logs from the this farm go to a furnace to become charcoal. (I know how to do that part) I want the charcoal to get dispersed between three inventories. 1 out of every 8 should go to power the furnaces making the charcoal. 1 of every 8 should go to back to the cargo manager so that the cart will always have fuel. Everything else should go into storage.

Is this possible? How would I do it?

Later I want to automate things so that anything that needs coal / charcoal (power generators, Steve's Carts cargo managers, stirling engines) can automatically take from that inventory as needed.

Is this possible? How would I do it?

 

[Azdule]

Hello, it may sound silly but could you not just put a furnace upgrade in the cart, get it to smelt a stack of wood for the charcoal and it would automatically send the rest to your storage / for the furnaces?

 

[rhn]

I am still fairly new to Minecraft Mods. I'm running the Tech World 2 pack on the FTB launcher.

I have a tree farm with a Steve's Carts 2 cart that I want to run indefinitely (aside from when the tool breaks and needs repairing of course). The cart has both a solar and a coal engine so that it can fallback on coal power when the trees block the sun.

I want to create an automated system where the logs from the this farm go to a furnace to become charcoal. (I know how to do that part) I want the charcoal to get dispersed between three inventories. 1 out of every 8 should go to power the furnaces making the charcoal. 1 of every 8 should go to back to the cargo manager so that the cart will always have fuel. Everything else should go into storage.

Is this possible? How would I do it?

Later I want to automate things so that anything that needs coal / charcoal (power generators, Steve's Carts cargo managers, stirling engines) can automatically take from that inventory as needed.

Is this possible? How would I do it?

Well instead of dividing it up evenly(which is usually not easy to do) it would simply be much much easier to just fill them up after priority. First fill up the furnace, then the cargo manager, then storage.(or how ever you want to do it)

You could simply and cheaply do this by running something like Itemducts to the different storages in this order(or wrench the ducts to red/green mode to decrease/increase priority(it actually decreases/increases length calculations by 1000 and items always go to nearest available inventory). Use Servos to filter which items go where.

Later you could do something like Logistic pipes to pull items from inventories and keep other stocked. Or you could set up a ME network. Or even a combination there of.

 

[Gregory Wollf]

Is it possible to automatically maintain an inventory to always have a certain amount of a resource (64 coal)? As in, every time something takes coal out more gets put back in?

I realize that I could just fill the entire inventory... but that would be wasteful and there would be no place for other resources to be unloaded.

 

[rhn]

Is it possible to maintain automatically maintain an inventory to always have a certain amount of a resource (64 coal)? As in, every time something takes coal out more gets put back in?

I realize that I could just fill the entire inventory... but that would be wasteful and there would be no place for other resources to be unloaded.

Yes Logistic Pipes can do that. You put a Supplier pipe on the inventory you want to keep stocked, filter in the items and amounts. On the storage with the items you put a Provider Pipe. You then connect them up with any BC type pipe(Like golden pipe, stone pipe etc.) and use the basic Logistic Pipe in every junction of pipes(this allows the pipes to smartly route items instead of the BC pipes randomly choosing a direction). Depending on modpack configs you might need to set up the power supply setup(I have actually never done that myself lol. Always powered it of ME network or the pack had power requirement turned off lol) for the LP network.