router help

[eric167]

im trying to automate a line of alvearys for frame insertion, yet no matter what i try, the thing wont insert the frames.
what should i set the router/its upgrades to?
using FTB unleashed.

and while were talking about alvearys, how do i automate the cycling of drones/princesses/items.

 

[Lisranda]

You can kinda make it work without a Machine Filter upgrade since the Alveary's normal inventory wont accept frames anyway, but if you use Barrels under the ground to connect the inventories of them you'll definitely need one. You shouldn't need any other upgrade.

Set the router to insert and then cycle through the possible inventories. The one you are looking for is not intuitively named, it's some string of text that I believe has "extrabees" in it. Sadly, the router will see the Frame Housing and the Mutator as the same inventory so it will insert frames into both. It doesn't really matter, because frames will not degrade in a Mutator and have no affect on anything, you can manually place Uranium/Nether Stars/Whatever in if you want to use that block.

Sadly, Forestry and Binnie's Mods have AWFUL names for the machines when you're identifying them in a router.

 

[eric167]

You can kinda make it work without a Machine Filter upgrade since the Alveary's normal inventory wont accept frames anyway, but if you use Barrels under the ground to connect the inventories of them you'll definitely need one. You shouldn't need any other upgrade.

Set the router to insert and then cycle through the possible inventories. The one you are looking for is not intuitively named, it's some string of text that I believe has "extrabees" in it. Sadly, the router will see the Frame Housing and the Mutator as the same inventory so it will insert frames into both. It doesn't really matter, because frames will not degrade in a Mutator and have no affect on anything, you can manually place Uranium/Nether Stars/Whatever in if you want to use that block.

Sadly, Forestry and Binnie's Mods have AWFUL names for the machines when you're identifying them in a router.

thats how i have it set, and i need it to pull from an adjacent chest, which is where i get lost with the thing.
nevermind. a transport pipe piping the frames into it works.
now how do i use the pipes to automate comb production?

 

[PoisonWolf]

im trying to automate a line of alvearys for frame insertion, yet no matter what i try, the thing wont insert the frames.
what should i set the router/its upgrades to?
using FTB unleashed.

and while were talking about alvearys, how do i automate the cycling of drones/princesses/items.

Set the router, with a machine filter upgrade, to insert from south sides and filter it to tileextrabeealveary.

To automate cycling, put an wooden transport pipe right at the center bottom of the alveary, and put an autarchic gate to it (setting: items in inventory, energy pulser). Then connect an apiarist pipe to that wooden pipe, and pipe accordingly. You'll need to check the wiki to see which sides the alveary accepts princesses/drones from.

 

[Lisranda]

Yes, you'll need to fill the router by some other means. If it is inserting into an inventory it will not extract on its own. You could accomplish that with two routers, the first with an ejector upgrade... but that's kinda silly quite frankly.

Be careful using pipes to feed frames into the routers, have some kind of spill over protection in place because once all of the Frame Housings are full the router will stop distributing them and the pipe will start spitting them out onto the ground -- you could limit this with gates but you'd still get spill over.

You should be able to interface with any of the faces below the Alveary to get the products (combs/bees/etc) out and if you pump bees into those 9 faces they should go in their appropriate slots. They're very smart about it. Even then, you might need to be a little more specific about which sides you interface with but I'm pretty sure that's only for Pneumatic Tubes which don't really apply anymore. Personally, I like the AE approach a little better, just feels smoother having a Fuzzy Export Bus, a Basic Import Bus, and a Barrel directly below the Alveary totally out of sight.