Red Power 2 - Tube like Buildcraft Ironpipe

[Lazerus Artificial]

Im looking for something like this.
a pipe that will only output to one side.
We have build an automatic wheat farmer with block breakers and deployers, but there is one problem.
the block breacker farms the wheat, and spit the items to our chest.
BUT if the chest is full, the seeds will turn back, back into the block breaker.
there they will stack to an unlimited amount of items, if you destroy the breaker...horrible lag.
so, im looking for something like an Iron Pipe, the Breaker will spit items through it, and if they come back, they will see "not this way" and get rejected to a restriction tube.
it could be possible with using multiple restriction tubes for sorting this (like two res.tubes directly after the breaker where the item needs to go through, then a switch to a regular pipe with the chest and a way with only one restriction tube. if the item goes back from the chest, the way with only one res.tube is shorter, so it should take this way), but is there a way or a block to do this the "easy mode"?

 

[ratchet freak]

simply provide an alternate (longer path) path, items prefer valid inventories over a machine output

 

[eculc]

From what I can tell, there's nothing in RP2 that does exactly what you're looking for. if what you want is an overflow inventory, well that's what Restriction tubes are for. if you just want something one-way you can use a transposer. Items will only go back to the machine they were ejected from if there are no more valid inventories in the tube network, so just having a restriction tube to an overflow chest should work fine.

 

[Nommy9]

Transposers when placed in line work like a 1 way valve (redstone stops items passing too). Filters have the same function, but you can put items in them to specify what can go through.

But you should not need those. Items go to the closest inventory or machine that will accept them, so if you put a restriction tube on the overflow pipe that should do the trick. They only go back to the breaker when there is no other alternative.

 

[Lazerus Artificial]

mhh i wil ltry this, thanks.
crashed our server yesterday xD
i hve not known that it is possible to spawn so many seeds at a time o.o

 

[PhilHibbs]

i hve not known that it is possible to spawn so many seeds at a time o.o

If you leave it running long enough you can get any amount. Direwolf20 recently solved a similar problem with a Filter spitting the items out to be caught by an Obsidian Pipe into a Void Pipe. Because when your overflow is full it will still stuff up the block breaker.

 

[Adonis0]

...Filter spitting the items out to be caught by an Obsidian Pipe into a Void Pipe...

Or, Filter/transposer outputting directly into a lava source block. if the item is not input into the side of the lava block but dropped in instead, it produces that annoying burning noise, and just that little bit extra of work for the server to produce the bounce and the noise. (negligible really, but 1000 negligible things stack up)

 

[PhilHibbs]

Or, Filter/transposer outputting directly into a lava source block. if the item is not input into the side of the lava block but dropped in instead, it produces that annoying burning noise, and just that little bit extra of work for the server to produce the bounce and the noise. (negligible really, but 1000 negligible things stack up)

Nah, what you really want is a column of tubes going up and over into a Dispenser with a Timer attached, that drops them down through a column of Glass Panels and into a Lava Source Block that is held in place by four Gold Block Panel Strips around it, and four Gold Block Panel Strip Corners to make it look neat. Just fo' da bling. You could even put an Item Detector in that triggers the Dispenser on a delay. Or, a Central Processing Unit that counts the seeds going in and waits until there are 9 full stacks, and then outputs 576 pulses to the Dispenser so you can watch an occasional downpour of burning seeds. You could sell tickets to see that.

 

[Adonis0]

A Central Processing Unit that counts the seeds going in and waits until there are 9 full stacks, and then outputs 576 pulses to the Dispenser so you can watch an occasional downpour of burning seeds. You could sell tickets to see that.

Don't forget the Giant 8 Bit counter display that counts down from 576 until 0, then lets off 20 fireworks a tick for the last 10 seeds.

 

[PhilHibbs]

Don't forget the Giant 8 Bit counter display that counts down from 576 until 0, then lets off 20 fireworks a tick for the last 10 seeds.

Now you're just starting to get silly.

 

[Adonis0]

Now you're just starting to get silly.

But the counter would still be cool ^^
Absolutely pointless, but they're cool