router/barrel system not functioning correctly

[sugarbuzz13]

Hi. I've recently been working on a sorting system in the DW20 modpack that I saw in one of his videos (router leading to barrels). I have made something similar to this but it doesn't seem to work. whenever a stack (full or not) goes in, for more of that item, it goes to a separate barrel. What do i do?

ps. heres a model of what I built (the machines are all the same just the placement/pipe arrangement changes to be concealed in my actual build)

heres what it looks like loaded with random items (all the wood is the same)

 

[Predatorkillol]

naturally barrels will spread items out between inventories. The best way to fix it is to pre organise your barrels

 

[sugarbuzz13]

naturally barrels will spread items out between inventories. The best way to fix it is to pre organise your barrels

so do i put one of each item into them or just have as many barrels as i need?

 

[trimagnus]

Placing one of each item into the barrels you want the items to go into is the simplest and most effective way to ensure that everything works well. You can even temporarily block certain barrels from the router by placing something like 1 cobblestone into the barrel (if you would rather the router ignore it until your have the item you would have rather placed there). Small conveniences.

 

[slay_mithos]

I heard that there is also an upgrade to enhance the router for such purposes, so that your overflow chest (for example) doesn't get filled by things that could otherwise go in their barrel.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

It's an old tactic called 'seeding'. Basically, as others have mentioned, you have at least one of each item you wish to sort in each barrel, so there are no empty barrels to randomly distribute into.

Having said that, if you have something you have not accounted for enter your system, it'll jam. Fortunately, there's a simple solution, add a single barrel. Because it's the only available inventory for the item, it goes to your blank barrel, unclogs the router, and things proceed as usual.

 

[Whovian]

I heard that there is also an upgrade to enhance the router for such purposes, so that your overflow chest (for example) doesn't get filled by things that could otherwise go in their barrel.

Unfortunately, that upgrade only distributes a single stack into each Barrel available. That is, if you give it 2 stacks of Nether Stars, it first looks you with a quizzical expression as you obviously cheated them in, puts the first stack into 1 Barrel, and then puts the other stack into another Barrel.

 

[slay_mithos]

Did you try combining it with the module that let's you say "input to top"?

 

[EternalDensity]

Unfortunately it is functioning correctly, just not the way we'd all prefer.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Unfortunately it is functioning correctly, just not the way we'd all prefer.

Which pretty much describes the whole mod, with the possible exception of the barrels.

 

[EternalDensity]

Which pretty much describes the whole mod, with the possible exception of the barrels.

Which is why I just use the barrels, for cheap early-game storage when I don't have stuff automated yet.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Which is why I just use the barrels, for cheap early-game storage when I don't have stuff automated yet.

Eh, they aren't bad for mass storage of cobble/sand/dirt/gravel, when combined with RP2 tubes. Put them in-line on the way to the recyclers to keep a reserve.

 

[EternalDensity]

Eh, they aren't bad for mass storage of cobble/sand/dirt/gravel, when combined with RP2 tubes. Put them in-line on the way to the recyclers to keep a reserve.

Agreed. I just haven't managed to play far enough to get enough into midgame to have to consider that Maybe this time...

 

[sugarbuzz13]

Unfortunately, that upgrade only distributes a single stack into each Barrel available. That is, if you give it 2 stacks of Nether Stars, it first looks you with a quizzical expression as you obviously cheated them in, puts the first stack into 1 Barrel, and then puts the other stack into another Barrel.

"Looks at you with a quizzical expression as you obviously cheated them in"

 

[Someone Else 37]

There are two router upgrades that will help here (but not solve the problem): Bandwidth and Thoroughness. Bandwidth simply makes the router move a whole stack at a time, so you might wind up with fifteen barrels with a stack of cobble each, in a row.

Thoroughness makes the router check the last barrel visited before moving onto the next one- so as long as you throw in nothing but cobble, it'll all go into one barrel. However, if you alternate wood and cobble, you'll get wood in every other barrel, and cobble in the rest.

The only ways I know of to ensure that you only have one barrel per material to be stored are to stick one item in every barrel before activating your router, or to feed the barrels from Pneumatic Tubes.

 

[IMarvinTPA]

1) Seed your barrels
2) Use a turtle with this program: http://pastebin.com/rXRCh3Bg to fill the router
3) Use a machine filter on the router and have it only see barrels. Bandwidth and Speed upgrades to minimize false jamming.
4) Input chest and overflow chest above/below turtle and router in front of the turtle.

Share and Enjoy!

Video of my sorting village:

IMarv

 

[Pat24C]

I also came up with a router barrel storage system.
It requires the barrels to be seeded, but you can make a wall of barrels like that with an overflow chest. I just use a timer, an engine and a gate to suck out items without a place to go. Unfortunately there is no way to do this without pre sorting though.

Here's a video tutorial I made for my system.

 

[Bagman817]

Video of my sorting village: /snip

IMarv

It takes a village to sort a quarry.

 

[twisto51]

After putting in AE I have 300+ barrels and 100+ barrel upgrades sitting in storage and a lot less headaches.

You have to seed/block and do some pre-sorting to get pain-free router-fed barrel walls. I found it most useful for areas where I was dealing with a known set of items, like in my workshop where I could use RP to send only ingots/blocked ingots/and a couple other things to a router-fed barrel wall near my manual crafting area.

Anybody familiar with it who watched direwolf put in his recent router/barrels probably chuckled when they saw him cover up the routers. Sure enough, next episode, each router was uncovered again so he could manually unstuff them every other time he ran through there.

 

[Ako_the_Builder]

Which pretty much describes the whole mod, with the possible exception of the barrels.

pocket crafting table is perfect for my needs, just saying