Very nice good sir, you have inspired me to build something more impressive. And by impressive, I mean horrifying! Allow me to introduce my
Very nice good sir, you have inspired me to build something more impressive. And by impressive, I mean horrifying! Allow me to introduce my
COW RAPINATOR 9001inator.
It automatically fills milk buckets and empties it into my railcraft tank. Power is provided by a windmill and blulectric engine, but any buildcraft engine will do. If you have Plugins for Forestry, you can even power it on its own milk in a biogas engine. Plus, it scars the cow for life and ensures years of therapy!
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Here's my quick setup trying to recreate that Milk-Drain-A-Ton:Do the buckets auto eject from the liquid transposer? And is the deployer set to an output slot? I'm just a little fuzzy how you got that part to work
Output connects (via pneumatic tubes) to the second retriever, set to "drain empty buckets and paint them white" (just to make absolutely sure the buckets don't get send to the first retriever in error) sending the (now) empty buckets back to the deployer. The deployer and the two retrievers are powered by a timer set to 1 second. The Liquid Transposer just needs power (any kind of BC energy) and no redstone pulses. The tanks in the bottom half are 3 high and its a five-by-five square of tank pillars. While I wrote this, the Cow-Milkinator filled 3 and a half of these tanks with some milk distributed among the rest of the tanks. I'm loving this. 
Here's my quick setup trying to recreate that Milk-Drain-A-Ton:
Deployer is facing up towards the cow. Inside are empty buckets (my test uses a single stack of 16). Every redstone pulse makes the deployer fill one bucket with milk. I used two retrievers - first one is connected with pneumatic tubes to the deployer and is set to "draw milk buckets", sending them towards a Liquid Transposer set do "drain liquids". Make sure you place a rp2 cover between the input and output tubes. In this test, its a not very good to see sandstone cover.
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For the sake of the "What is this, I don't even... but I want one!" I powered all of this using a quick setup of a redstone-energy-cell and a batbox with a few solars.
You know, when I was watching the tanks getting filled up with Milk.. the little evul genius in the back of my head became hungry. So he went and tweaked the Milkinator a bit. He's no longer hungry now. Guess why?
Thanks to Thermal Expansion's awesome side configurations, the milk buckets go in through the bottom, empty themselves, then they are autoejected to the top. My deployer setup is a bit funky, mostly because I built this out of sheer curiosity and did not refine it, but the deployer is on top, receives the timer's redstone pulse through a state cell that delays it, and it autodrops the buckets through the cow and into a transposer that takes the milk buckets into the transposer, and so forth. More complex then it probably could be, and not very elegant either, but effective. And as previously mentioned, the cow's mental scarring is priceless.Do the buckets auto eject from the liquid transposer? And is the deployer set to an output slot? I'm just a little fuzzy how you got that part to work
You might notice two things: The connection between the pipes is broken (It simply generated WAY too much iceblocks spilling them all over the place once all deployers are filled up - though I used some iron pipes later in order to prevent the spilling) and a block you might not know - that's an Energy Converter from Power Converters which I added into the pack myself.
Quarry Machine.. You can check it out in my videos too.. But Ill just post a picture.
Just wanted to post a little creation of mine.
While I was thinking about Autocrafting Tables, I realized they had one drawback, they couldn't use non-stackables. You can put a chest next to them, but if they use buckets, the chest eventually gets clogged up with empty buckets. In order to remedy that, I came up with this little contraption. All you need is access to the liquid the bucket's being filled with in liquid form, and a few resources to start it up. (Back there's an Aqueous Accumulator filling up a portable tank.) The Redstone Engine draws out the items produced by the Autocrafting Table, activating the Gate, and, thus, the Redstone below and the adjacent Pulse Former. This adds a pulse to the Liquid Transposer, causing it to fill up one, and only one, Bucket. (It's being powered by an Electrical Engine, of course.) When the Redstone Engine drew out the crafting product, it also emptied the Bucket in the Hopper, which wasn't deposited into the Liquid Transposer before since there was already a Bucket in there. (Buckets can stack now, yay!) The empty bucket goes straight into the Liquid Transposer. The bucket the Liquid Transposer filled gets deposited back into the Hopper, and the cycle starts over.
