Skeleton and Creeper item farm

[Poppycocks]

I don't like making timers for everything, so the last time I did something like this I used a 9x9 floor of transposers. Unnecessarily expensive, but yeah whatever.
I guess you could use pressure plates (wooden, in special) to save up a bit on both transposers and timers as well.

That's a good idea. Cover the rest of the space in pressure plates, link everything on the bottom with rp wire, put some glowstone or something under that to avoid light updates.[DOUBLEPOST=1360790483][/DOUBLEPOST]

the fact that you don't need to attach a motor to every one to make them pick up items in blocks that isn't the transpose makes it better. You can run 1000......off of the same timer. tubes won't spit items all over the ground
If the attached inventory is full.

You don't have to attach engines to obsipipes. Whatever touches 'em goes in, same as unpowered transposer. And if you do power them, then the range goes up dramatically.

 

[Mero]

That's a good idea. Cover the rest of the space in pressure plates, like everything on the bottom with rp wire, put some glowstone or something under that to avoid light updates.[DOUBLEPOST=1360790483][/DOUBLEPOST]
You don't have to attach engines to obsipipes. Whatever touches 'em goes in, same as unpowered transposer. And if you do power them, then the range goes up dramatically.

Which requires some way to push the items into the pipe, which generally means water channels

 

[Poppycocks]

Which requires some way to push the items into the pipe, which generally means water channels

Yeah, or covering the ground with them.

Have you been reading the thread at all or are you just jumping to the last post?

 

[Mero]

Yeah, or covering the ground with them.

Have you been reading the thread at all or are you just jumping to the last post?

Read the entire thread.

81 obsidian pipes plus all the transport pipes attached to each or 9 transposers plus the redstone tubes to cover a 9x9 area and 1 timer.

I'll stuck with RP.

 

[whythisname]

Read the entire thread.

81 obsidian pipes plus all the transport pipes attached to each or 9 transposers plus the redstone tubes to cover a 9x9 area and 1 timer.

I'll stuck with RP.

I'm pretty sure an obsidian pipe + redstone engine can cover the same area in the same pattern. Still, for a 9x9 with 81 obsidian pipes you only need ~20 obsidian and ~20 iron. Sure you need to whack all the iron pipes (with a wrench) and you'll need ~40 glass, but the biggest cost is time and elbow grease, which I think would be on par with how long it takes to setup your RP2 system (and for both systems that time is nothing compared to how long it takes to get the lvl 5 soul shard).

I'm not saying using RP2 is bad, but I really think that in this case BC pipes are just as good as anything RP2 can offer.

 

[Abdiel]

I have noticed very rarely items could land "between" a pair of adjacent obsidian pipes, and wouldn't be sucked into either. This was very rare (maybe one in 100 items), not sure how big of a deal this will be for a Soul spawner. You could also scratch the pipes altogether and just use a wooden golem - that is definitely the cheapest option (assuming you have the research done, or can get somebody else who has to build one for you).

 

[Zelfana]

Or you could chute them down a one block hole and have the obsidian pipe on the side and powered by redstone engine. Almost the same as the golem but you can get it done much earlier.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

Or you could chute them down a one block hole and have the obsidian pipe on the side and powered by redstone engine. Almost the same as the golem but you can get it done much earlier.

That's how my farm works, though I skip the redstone engine and just drop them straight onto the pipe. I haven't seen any items get stuck, pop out, or otherwise fail to get sucked up.