Sotrage/Sorting

[Ieldra]

I usually start out with a Logistics Pipes system until I have so much stuff that that becomes impractical. Then I move to AE - and stay with it. Yes, it does make some things easy, but it adds a lot of things beyond "just storage and organization" I wouldn't want to live without after a certain point. I used to be very conservative in expanding my ME network because of the increasing power requirements, but that's the wrong way to go about it. If you do AE, go all out and explore its full potential. Then it won't become boring and the amount of satisfaction you can derive from building interesting stuff increases dramatically.

One example: decentral production can be way more interesting, if sometimes not as efficient, as centralized production. If you do that, connect your different bases and factories with quantum link bridges and make AE subnetworks. Don't put everything in the ME network but connect your "mundane" storage to it via storage buses. It's the best of both worlds.

I've tried building extended railway-based logistics systems in the past, but was discouraged by some MC oddities that prevented my systems from working as I wanted to, and I lost too many carts. A logistics system I can't depend on, however, has no attraction for me. Perhaps that has changed since, but these days I'm using the more "magical" transportation methods and I've never looked back.

 

[Xheotris]

Don't get me wrong, I love AE, and in most standard packs with umpteen million mods it is absolutely necessary. I just like breaking away from anything that I get too dependant on for a while.

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[rhn]

For a long time I would just use AE for storage, but after a while I was like what is the point in keeping like everything you have in like three blocks?

If that is all you do with AE, then I must honestly say you are only using a fraction of mods capabilities.

I find it so sad when people just set up a drive with a bunch of unformatted drives and just dumps everything blindly unto them. AE can do SO much more.

 

[Loxinnightwalker]

If that is all you do with AE, then I must honestly say you are only using a fraction of mods capabilities.

I find it so sad when people just set up a drive with a bunch of unformatted drives and just dumps everything blindly unto them. AE can do SO much more.

I would use it for a lot more then just setting up drives and things, that was just an example.

 

[rhn]

I would use it for a lot more then just setting up drives and things, that was just an example.

More referring to how you can set up really powerful systems if you use Priority and pre-formatting to set up your disks. For example tiered items storage/handling, item deletion once main storage gets full etc.

 

[iNd3x]

I would like some1 to make a sorting system consisting of only chests and carts. Do it with railcraft, it would be absolutely epic!
Not to mention it would be huge and really complicated, but that would be tons of fun to me

 

[Loxinnightwalker]

Just going to say this, Back when I would still use AE I would set things up to do things on there own to the point of getting a bit lazy with it, and I really started to miss filling chest after chest with with lots and lots of items, before AE I would make massive buildings just for storage and I really loved finding ways to mix and match mods for it to work, and I started this wanting to see how others would do the same thing. I don't mean to be bashing AE or anything like that. it is a really cool mod. it just isn't my thing.

 

[Xheotris]

I would like some1 to make a sorting system consisting of only chests and carts. Do it with railcraft, it would be absolutely epic!
Not to mention it would be huge and really complicated, but that would be tons of fun to me

Instead of request pipes or ME interfaces, you could use routing tables to get a specific set of items back...

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[Not_Steve]

I would like some1 to make a sorting system consisting of only chests and carts. Do it with railcraft, it would be absolutely epic!
Not to mention it would be huge and really complicated, but that would be tons of fun to me

@SatanicSanta

 

[Mevansuto]

I just came up with a good idea. Use LP to order items to an item loader and the cart drives through my base. I get remote ordering with all of the fun of Railcraft.

 

[Loxinnightwalker]

I just came up with a good idea. Use LP to order items to an item loader and the cart drives through my base. I get remote ordering with all of the fun of Railcraft.

That sounds amazing!

 

[SatanicSanta]

@SatanicSanta

Good man.

I would like some1 to make a sorting system consisting of only chests and carts. Do it with railcraft, it would be absolutely epic!
Not to mention it would be huge and really complicated, but that would be tons of fun to me

I would just explain it right now, but I just woke up, and I had stayed up till 8AM swimming and then coding, so I don't really feel like it.

 

[Mevansuto]

Good man.

I would just explain it right now, but I just woke up, and I had stayed up till 8AM swimming and then coding, so I don't really feel like it.

Now make carts retrieve items.

 

[SatanicSanta]

Now make carts retrieve items.

What do you mean?

 

[Xheotris]

Now make carts retrieve items.

What do you mean?

Hang on, I got this. Give me a day to put it together.

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[Loxinnightwalker]

What do you mean?

I think he means a set up for if an item is requested then the cart would go pick it up and bring it to you.

 

[iNd3x]

If a cart can get things too, i'll make a new world, built around carts and nothing else!

 

[rhn]

Now make carts retrieve items.

The hard part is not making the carts go pick it up, it is devising something where you can pick which items you want. You could do it with ComputerCraft but you guess you would require a huge touch screen with buttons for every single item you want to request and program in every single one into the script...

 

[Skvapter]

The hard part is not making the carts go pick it up, it is devising something where you can pick which items you want. You could do it with ComputerCraft but you guess you would require a huge touch screen with buttons for every single item you want to request and program in every single one into the script...

I reckon if anyone can do that, it'll be you rhn.

 

[Loxinnightwalker]

The hard part is not making the carts go pick it up, it is devising something where you can pick which items you want. You could do it with ComputerCraft but you guess you would require a huge touch screen with buttons for every single item you want to request and program in every single one into the script...

Well if you do Logistics Pipes you could set up the pipes to feed into the item loader (Or whatever it is called.) and then just send the cart along for pick up.