QuickTip: Boilers and Liquiducts

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I posted this over on my Blog, but this was just too good to not share with the class.

Because Liquiducts have powered output with a redstone signal, you can get an amazing throughput of 240 steam, capable of fueling 6 Commercial Steam Engines for a whopping 48 MJ/t!

There is no observable loss of steam at a distance of 100 blocks, so it's also more energy efficient to pipe steam over longer distances than it would be to produce MJ at a power plant and transfer it with conduits (although blockbreakers hooked up to item loaders and carts to transport energy cells would be 100% efficient as well, if a bit on the Rube Goldbergian side of things).

So, Liquiducts can output some six times the steam a golden waterproof pipe can manage, making it decidedly better for your large-scale steam needs.

 

[TheLoneWolfling]

Power conduits currently have a fixed power loss of 5%, regardless of distance. (Note that doing ex. conduit -> power cell -> conduit would mean you get the 5% loss both times)

Also, you can connect a liquiduct to a steam boiler multiple times for greater throughput.

 

[PhoenixKing]

the one liquiduct I am using between a coke oven, and an oil tank, doesn't seem to be working. I have wrenched it so oil appears in the pipe. Nothing is actually transferring though. I have to actually wrench it multiple times to get the oil into the tank. Yes it has a redstone signal, from a lever that I put on a block right below the pipe. it just won't work. Just like shift right clicking it won't break it.

 

[TheLoneWolfling]

the one liquiduct I am using between a coke oven, and an oil tank, doesn't seem to be working. I have wrenched it so oil appears in the pipe. Nothing is actually transferring though. I have to actually wrench it multiple times to get the oil into the tank. Yes it has a redstone signal, from a lever that I put on a block right below the pipe. it just won't work. Just like shift right clicking it won't break it.

Shift-clicking: use a crescent hammer.

As for the liquiduct not working: each pipe can either be in input mode or output mode. If you have one pipe, it won't work. What you're doing by continually wrenching it is allowing it to fill and drain its internal buffer.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

the one liquiduct I am using between a coke oven, and an oil tank, doesn't seem to be working. I have wrenched it so oil appears in the pipe. Nothing is actually transferring though. I have to actually wrench it multiple times to get the oil into the tank. Yes it has a redstone signal, from a lever that I put on a block right below the pipe. it just won't work. Just like shift right clicking it won't break it.

Buildcraft or Railcraft tank?
-if its Railcraft, you need to connect them to a tank valve block.

TE Ducts need to be more than 1 block long, otherwise they try to drain/fill both tanks simultaneously.