Quick help for my automated Boiler... Pls?

[Count_Cocofang]

Hi guys and girls,

have been building an automated Boiler (also using steve's carts tree farm). I'm using two relays in it (1 for putting wood into 3 thermal expansion furnaces and one putting charcoal into the boiler).

My current problem is the between relay and boiler/furnaces are a few tubes. And the relay keeps on pushing out. resulting in something like 20 different Item stacks in the tubes, which is something I would love to avoid.

Any idea on how to fix this?

 

[Larroke]

Put a manager on the boiler set to keep XXX charcoal in the boiler, tube to a chest (used as a buffer) that the furnaces dump into with another manager. Whenever boiler needs any charcoal I believe just that amount will travel to the boiler to satisfy it.

You could also put a transposer/filter on a redstone timer adjusted to just the perfect increment to feed the boiler a piece of fuel from the buffer chest (you could control the flow this way I think a bit better).

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Too be honest, a boiler burns through fuel pretty fast, so you probably want to keep a steady supply of items going- a manager may not bring it in quick enough.

Keep a second relay at the boiler end, before it feeds into the furnaces. (either direwolf style, or loop a restriction tube around into the side of said relay).​

Generally the whole lots gotta go down the tube somewhen, so a bit of tinkering down the boiler end is needed.

A sorting machine can pull either whole stacks, or a certain amount each cycle, without pulsing (less lag), so you can throttle the throughput as needed.

(though you'll need a suitable buffer to hold all the material from your farm)​

 

[graydaze]

From what I've been reading cutting the logs in a TE sawmill into planks to be used as fuel is more efficient than using charcoal. You can use managers as stated earlier, but i suspect that you will still get items running back and forth between the pipes. If the pipe isnt too long you could just chain relays together instead of using pipes. I know is sounds gimmicky but it works

 

[Poppycocks]

You could connect the powered furnaces / sawmill directly into the boiler.

Like in this post for example.

Althought that's a too many sawmils for one boiler to be honest.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

For even more efficiency, pass the resultant planks through an autocrafting table with sticks to make scaffolds. 16 scaffolds per combine, and together they produce WAY more heat than three planks and three sticks do

 

[MrZwij]

For even more efficiency, pass the resultant planks through an autocrafting table with sticks to make scaffolds. 16 scaffolds per combine, and together they produce WAY more heat than three planks and three sticks do

GregTech nerfs this down to 4 scaffolds per recipe.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

GregTech nerfs this down to 4 scaffolds per recipe.

And config files can un-nerf this.

Besides, not everyone plays with GregTech.

 

[MrZwij]

And config files can un-nerf this.

Well, sure (if you're not on a server), but why?

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Well, sure (if you're not on a server), but why?

Why not?

 

[MrZwij]

Why not?

Obviously it's up to each person how they want to play. Un-nerf away if that spins your crank. To me though, this always felt like a particularly cheesy exploit, and I'm glad it got "fixed."

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Obviously it's up to each person how they want to play. Un-nerf away if that spins your crank. To me though, this always felt like a particularly cheesy exploit, and I'm glad it got "fixed."

I generally use scaffolds for their intended purpose, and you need quite a few of them when you do. Burning them for more efficiency is a good trade off, since it requires multiple subcombines to pull off, making it sufficiently complex to automate without LP.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

I generally use scaffolds for their intended purpose, and you need quite a few of them when you do. Burning them for more efficiency is a good trade off, since it requires multiple subcombines to pull off, making it sufficiently complex to automate without LP.

XYcraft fabricates will be the new logistics pipes, you could keep a regulator supplying logs, 3 crafters making scaffold and a sorting machine pumping out the result.

The whole stetup could wrap around a single chest.​

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I usually keep a canvas bag of scaffold and sticks on hand for various builds. That stuff the so much fun to knock down- especially when someone's on it.

But the higher fuel value really feels like a exploit- hopefully it'll get readjusted properly so GT won't have to make do with a half effort.

(Its already a blacklisted item for the recycler)​

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

XYcraft fabricates will be the new logistics pipes, you could keep a regulator supplying logs, 3 crafters making scaffold and a sorting machine pumping out the result.

The whole stetup could wrap around a single chest.​

Once it comes out, yes. It hasn't been released yet.​

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I usually keep a canvas bag of scaffold and sticks on hand for various builds. That stuff the so much fun to knock down- especially when someone's on it.

Grief-tastic! Not everyone likes to spleef people, but hey, to each their own.

Some people find it to be slightly OP to have so many 'ladders' from so few resources.

But the higher fuel value really feels like a exploit- hopefully it'll get readjusted properly so GT won't have to make do with a half effort.

(Its already a blacklisted item for the recycler)​

Eh, it still doesn't give an enormous amount of energy, and requires hoops to jump through to realize it. Besides, who bothers burning things for power after they get to the nether? It's only good early-game when you are running your first steam engine or generator. Once you get geothermal/biomass up and running, it'll never be used again.

 

[Zjarek_S]

Scaffolds don't burn in the boiler, because it would be OP, lava is nerfed for the same reason. Automatic scaffold making is really not very complicated and provide 4 times (with TE sawmill) increase of furnace burn value in comparison with charcoal, which is just unreasonable. Energy from the nether is really OP for IC2 and honestly there is no way to make it balanced. You can get about 30 kEu from one bucket (even with normal geothermals and some setup) and lava in nether is almost endless. The problem with it is that it triumphs other energy sources, so people explore less content of the mods.

 

[Ughzug]

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[thecheesethatbites]

From what I've been reading cutting the logs in a TE sawmill into planks to be used as fuel is more efficient than using charcoal. You can use managers as stated earlier, but i suspect that you will still get items running back and forth between the pipes. If the pipe isnt too long you could just chain relays together instead of using pipes. I know is sounds gimmicky but it works

What you do then, is you craft it into scaffolding, you get the burn value of 16 planks for 3 sticks and 3 wood

 

[urmamasllama]

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