Steam, or, how to make a router cry.

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SawBlade

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I know it's far from the fanciest build or strangest thing you've seen, but, the sheer fun of lighting it up had to be shared.

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24 Steam Ovens fed from my AE into a router with Bandwidth and Machine type upgrades. All linked with empty chests to make the inventories connect. A second router with the eject upgrade handles retrieving the results. 1000 or so items a minute processed. Fed from one 36HP.
 
I built it originally to plow through a backlog of approx 1.5m various wooden logs into charcoal for some very hungry boilers. After that was done I've switched it over to batch jobs. At the moment I'm idly working on some solars from compact solars and need lots of refined iron, rubber, etc. I'll tweak the export bus, flip the lever, and give it 5-10 minutes.

Lesson? Don't let 1.5m wooden logs back up :P
 
SawBlade said:
I built it originally to plow through a backlog of approx 1.5m various wooden logs into charcoal for some very hungry boilers. After that was done I've switched it over to batch jobs. At the moment I'm idly working on some solars from compact solars and need lots of refined iron, rubber, etc. I'll tweak the export bus, flip the lever, and give it 5-10 minutes.

Lesson? Don't let 1.5m wooden logs back up :p
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LOL, I'm guessing you've got an MFR tree farm then :)
 
Yeah...just one MFR tree farm...

Actually I had 3 running but swapped them out for Forestry. Not as productive but they look better. Need to figure out how to make an MFR farm look as good as it functions.
 
SawBlade said:
Yeah...just one MFR tree farm...

Actually I had 3 running but swapped them out for Forestry. Not as productive but they look better. Need to figure out how to make an MFR farm look as good as it functions.
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Are you using normal trees or did you breed a special tree for the forestry farm?

Frankly everyone says that Forestry farms are lame and MFR farms are MUCH better but only have done one part of the job on the Forestry farm and ignore tree breeding. I know that with vanilla trees MFR is better but as soon as you swap those with special breed trees forestry farms actually are equal imo.
 
I'm using some Mahoe for the saplings with forestry now. I was using vanilla on the MFR. Either way really works fine, it came down to preference. I like liquid fuel over solid for keeping things cleanly topped off as well as forestry farms looking cleaner than MFR. Now beneath my farms....that's a different story.
 
...Mine wouldn't either, so I cheated a little and gave myself one. Filled in the rest of my farms from that one sapling.
 
No no, MFR farms work fantastic. I have no problems at all with how they function. It's just the eye candy part. With forestry I can have a nice smooth area with crops and lighting. With MFR I have the harvester and fertilizer sitting there a block above ground level.
 
On a somewhat tangential topic; I wish we could do a tighter directional harvest area with MFR harvesters. Would give more flexibility with designs and building if you could constrict the cone that the harvester projects.
 
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