[Thaumcraft 4.2] Mana Bean Farming
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I dont agree that they are useless, but they are definitely susposed to be sparcely used. Also, I find when I use them in a large build it looks pretty cool, like a mad scientiest's lab
They'd be fine if you could use bellows to create suction wherever you wanted.I dont agree that they are useless, but they are definitely susposed to be sparcely used. Also, I find when I use them in a large build it looks pretty cool, like a mad scientiest's lab
As it is, I'm starting to become very fond of Thaumic Energistics. It totally does cheese the entire system of moving essentia around and I totally don't care.
Essentia tubes feel like there's some secret holding the system back. That discovering it would open up millions of possibilities, but sadly that epiphany doesn't happen.
Also while essentia buffers let you fill up the jars they tend to have trouble with the thaumatorium and other requesting machines. They tend to block the suction and not feed in to thaumatoriums directly, at least in my limited testing.
People want their rows of jars to be on demand for alchemy.
I think Azanor or someone else needs to document the mechanics of essentia tubes more elaborately. Because all I know about them is that certain items produce suction of a type or untyped. To get essentia to travel you need to make sure the sources suction is the same type as the destination but be a lower value.
In the case of a thaumatorium while it requests essentia for a craft it's suction for that type goes up, if your jars have a loer suction then essentia will enter it.
Also only one type of suction can be present in a line of tubes at a time, multiple essentia sources of a different type gum up the system if one type of suction isn't cleared.
Essentia tubes mechanics are quite vauge.
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Also while essentia buffers let you fill up the jars they tend to have trouble with the thaumatorium and other requesting machines. They tend to block the suction and not feed in to thaumatoriums directly, at least in my limited testing.
People want their rows of jars to be on demand for alchemy.
I think Azanor or someone else needs to document the mechanics of essentia tubes more elaborately. Because all I know about them is that certain items produce suction of a type or untyped. To get essentia to travel you need to make sure the sources suction is the same type as the destination but be a lower value.
In the case of a thaumatorium while it requests essentia for a craft it's suction for that type goes up, if your jars have a loer suction then essentia will enter it.
Also only one type of suction can be present in a line of tubes at a time, multiple essentia sources of a different type gum up the system if one type of suction isn't cleared.
Essentia tubes mechanics are quite vauge.
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There's a reason why I'm utilizing Thaumic Energistics.
And for those of you wondering, yes, I will post pics of my uber mana farm once it's running. It'll be interesting to say the least as I'm using torcherinos to make it function. It's easily my largest build to date but it'll be pretty small compared to what others have done.
And for those of you wondering, yes, I will post pics of my uber mana farm once it's running. It'll be interesting to say the least as I'm using torcherinos to make it function. It's easily my largest build to date but it'll be pretty small compared to what others have done.
I dont agree that they are useless, but they are definitely susposed to be sparcely used. Also, I find when I use them in a large build it looks pretty cool, like a mad scientiest's lab
The thing is that there is 'Auto Alchemy' and I figured hooking up my essence smelter to the Auto Crucible would make things easier but it's just as long and tedious.
I was under the impression that the auto alchemy was for purpose built systems e.g for alumentum production. Where the inputs are predictable and static.
I think the fact of the matter is that sadly on demand alchemy essentia systems are not in the perveiw of Thaumcrafts initial design. If only an ordo upgrade allowed golems to read what a Thaumatorium needs and fills it accordingly. Or special goggles being able to display the suction of a pipe line.
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I think the fact of the matter is that sadly on demand alchemy essentia systems are not in the perveiw of Thaumcrafts initial design. If only an ordo upgrade allowed golems to read what a Thaumatorium needs and fills it accordingly. Or special goggles being able to display the suction of a pipe line.
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I guess having Mana Beans makes manual alchemy more feasible since you don't have to worry about irrelevant aspects.
Yeah, as I always say; I always skipp crafting from a crusible. As far as I am concerned it's no more then a crafting material.
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