Thaumcraft 4 Directional Pipes - Help?

[davidHsonic]

To anyone here who understands Thaumcraft 4 pipes -

Why isn't the essentia moving from the right jar to the left one?

 

[GreenZombie]

If you wish to understand what is going on in your thaumcraft pipe netowrk you need to make the essentia resonator - the "fork" thing. Tapping it on pipes will tell you the pipes suction (and current essentia if any).

Your problem is simply, while directional pipes block the propogation of suction in a direction through themselves they do not add their own suction.

The simplest thing to do would be to add a label to the jar you want to fill.

For bonus points you would craft an essentia buffer and a few bellows - you can configure the sides of a buffer using a want to have zero, 1 or "full" suction, and full suction is 32x the number of attached bellows. Attaching bellows to a buffer and configuring one side for full suction will allow the buffer to pump essentia out of a jar attached on that side, and if a different side is configured for zero suction, a jar attached to that side will be able to fill itself from the buffer.

 

[davidHsonic]

If you wish to understand what is going on in your thaumcraft pipe netowrk you need to make the essentia resonator - the "fork" thing. Tapping it on pipes will tell you the pipes suction (and current essentia if any).

Your problem is simply, while directional pipes block the propogation of suction in a direction through themselves they do not add their own suction.

The simplest thing to do would be to add a label to the jar you want to fill.

For bonus points you would craft an essentia buffer and a few bellows - you can configure the sides of a buffer using a want to have zero, 1 or "full" suction, and full suction is 32x the number of attached bellows. Attaching bellows to a buffer and configuring one side for full suction will allow the buffer to pump essentia out of a jar attached on that side, and if a different side is configured for zero suction, a jar attached to that side will be able to fill itself from the buffer.

I've been using a resonator, and I'd like much more clarification on the second paragraph.

My main goal for this was to understand the directional pipe.

 

[GreenZombie]

Ok, if you place a jar, and attach some pipe, and click the jar and the pipe with the resonator you will see that the Jar has a suction of 32, and clicking along the pipe you can see that suction propagate, but pipe is one point lower than the previous.
When there is essentia in a pipe, it will always be "sucked" into an adjacent pipe with higher suction.

Now, if you place a piece of directional essentia tubing in the middle of the pipe and again use the essentia resonator to probe whats happening. In one direction, the suction of the jar will propagate normally across the directional tube. If you rotate it so that the marker stripes are on the opposite side to the suction source, you will see that the suction in the directional tube, and all the tubes further away, will now be zero.

This allows you to prevent "backflow" into a section of your pipe network where the suction is for whatever reason quite variable.