Steve carts

[Mageleon]

So i made a steve carts tree farm and it works really well but obviously the trees grow to quickly sometimes and make the cart stop working i have put a coal engine on it also.
but i remember direwolf20 making it so the cart takes wood also but how did he do it i can't find the video :S

 

[twisto51]

If you put wood in the engine slots I believe it will refill itself automatically from what it harvests. That has been my experience at least.

 

[LittleMike]

What twisto51 said. Take a couple pieces of wood and throw it in all 3 slots. The cart will refuel itself from what it harvests. If you leave a slot empty, though, it may fill that empty slot with saplings, so make sure you put some in all three.

I do this through a cargo manager, by the way. I'm not sure, but I don't think the cart will refuel itself at all otherwise. Just make one of the buttons in the cargo manager the engine icon and it will pull from it to refuel. Again, just make sure you put wood in all of the fuel slots first so it doesn't pull saplings for fuel.

 

[Bibble]

The engine will happily take wood (sapling, or any other burnable things you wish), but will not refill itself during normal operation. If you set up a cargo manager, with a shared inventory to pull out of the cart's inventory system, and refill the engines. It'll pull out the wood, and give it back when it refills the engine.

Bear in mind that there is a short delay here, so any inventory management system that you're using with the manager needs to be done with regards to this. Something like a redstone engine or two shouldn't have any issue, ditto with autarchic gates. A sorting machine on stack mode, manager, or low-tick filter will whip the wood away before the cart can take it back.

 

[Mageleon]

ok thanks guys i have got it working finally