I use Factorization router with a machine filter upgrade to place impregnated frames into all my bee alvearies. I have an enderchest that is kept filled with frames, and I connect the chest to the router with one length of wooden transport pipe and an autarchic gate set to "space in inventory" and "single energy pulse". It works pretty well except that it often sends two frames when only one is needed (even with the "single energy pulse" setting on the gate) and the buildcraft pipe spits the frame onto the ground where it will eventually despawn.
I had one router feeding 50 alvearies, but I thought that might be too slow (the router doesn't feed in frames very fast) so I made one router for each row of alvearies. I thought that would help, but when I came back to check, there were frames all over the ground. The routers were all working properly, they just pull too many in at once and then spit them out onto the ground. Very annoying and wasteful. I immediately thought that I could just put a vacuum hopper nearby to suck them all up and recycle them... but nah. I like to do things neatly and properly, that's more like a band-aid solution. I'm nuts, I know.
It was suggested here the other day that I should go to AE for my beekeeping, however the problem with that is my bee complex is located far away from my main base (I put it into a quarry hole I had made). So I can't use AE because of the long distance. I send all the bee products back to base via a tesseract and process everything there.
What do you do to keep your alvearies stocked with frames? I need to get away from this Factorization method somehow. I know I can make a little separate AE network just for my bees, but I'd like to hear suggestions from other players before I take the plunge and go that route. Perhaps someone has discovered a different way to insert frames into alvearies. If I use AE, do I just need one export bus for each alveary, and that will fill all the frame blocks? Or do I need to put one export bus on each frame block in the alveary?
I had one router feeding 50 alvearies, but I thought that might be too slow (the router doesn't feed in frames very fast) so I made one router for each row of alvearies. I thought that would help, but when I came back to check, there were frames all over the ground. The routers were all working properly, they just pull too many in at once and then spit them out onto the ground. Very annoying and wasteful. I immediately thought that I could just put a vacuum hopper nearby to suck them all up and recycle them... but nah. I like to do things neatly and properly, that's more like a band-aid solution. I'm nuts, I know.
It was suggested here the other day that I should go to AE for my beekeeping, however the problem with that is my bee complex is located far away from my main base (I put it into a quarry hole I had made). So I can't use AE because of the long distance. I send all the bee products back to base via a tesseract and process everything there.
What do you do to keep your alvearies stocked with frames? I need to get away from this Factorization method somehow. I know I can make a little separate AE network just for my bees, but I'd like to hear suggestions from other players before I take the plunge and go that route. Perhaps someone has discovered a different way to insert frames into alvearies. If I use AE, do I just need one export bus for each alveary, and that will fill all the frame blocks? Or do I need to put one export bus on each frame block in the alveary?
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