So I was experimenting and thought that storing massive amounts of metal in liquid form might be a cool/unique way. Everyone's done the Barrel/Chest/AE storage to death.
I set up a smeltery, and 4 iron tanks: 1 tank for molten copper, one for liquid tin, one for liquid iron, and the last one remained empty.
I placed liquiducts from a drain to the valves on 3 of the tanks. One at a time I melted down Copper, Tin, and Iron and flipped a switch I set up to drain the liquid out and into the tanks.
Next I connected the 4th tank via liquiduct and added lots of Copper and Tin to the smeltery. When it was all melted, I had some bronze and a lot of copper. This was a perfect test. I flipped the switch expecting the bronze to find it's way to the empty tank, and then the copper would empty out (that's how it was layered).
What actually happened was the bronze drained out and just sat in the duct. I checked the tank to make sure nothing else had snuck in. The tanks was empty, and for some reason the bronze didn't want to pour in.
I ripped the ducts up and tried experimenting with logistics pipes. I previously had success requesting liquid copper and tin using the logistics liquid provider pipes. I placed a wooden waterproof pipe on the drain with an autarchic gate to energy pulse on a redstone signal. Connected to that I put a liquid connector pipe and then a liquid insertion pipe.
The problem seems to be the wooden waterproof pipe won't draw from the drain at all. I assume this is because either the pipe and/or drain doesn't know what the other one is. Often all it takes is a config setting change to have things behave, but I can't find one.
Anyone know if I'm just missing the config setting, or if it just doesn't work, or a work around if there's no other choice?
I set up a smeltery, and 4 iron tanks: 1 tank for molten copper, one for liquid tin, one for liquid iron, and the last one remained empty.
I placed liquiducts from a drain to the valves on 3 of the tanks. One at a time I melted down Copper, Tin, and Iron and flipped a switch I set up to drain the liquid out and into the tanks.
Next I connected the 4th tank via liquiduct and added lots of Copper and Tin to the smeltery. When it was all melted, I had some bronze and a lot of copper. This was a perfect test. I flipped the switch expecting the bronze to find it's way to the empty tank, and then the copper would empty out (that's how it was layered).
What actually happened was the bronze drained out and just sat in the duct. I checked the tank to make sure nothing else had snuck in. The tanks was empty, and for some reason the bronze didn't want to pour in.
I ripped the ducts up and tried experimenting with logistics pipes. I previously had success requesting liquid copper and tin using the logistics liquid provider pipes. I placed a wooden waterproof pipe on the drain with an autarchic gate to energy pulse on a redstone signal. Connected to that I put a liquid connector pipe and then a liquid insertion pipe.
The problem seems to be the wooden waterproof pipe won't draw from the drain at all. I assume this is because either the pipe and/or drain doesn't know what the other one is. Often all it takes is a config setting change to have things behave, but I can't find one.
Anyone know if I'm just missing the config setting, or if it just doesn't work, or a work around if there's no other choice?
. You can use them to even pour steam from a boiler into steam engines.
