Tinkers Construct and Melting Villagers

[nardavin]

I am setting up an automatic emerald farm and have just solved a design problem in the farm (In a thread slightly below this one at time of initial publishing of this one) and another problem appeared: Now it seems the villagers do not take damage in the smeltry.

Details of design if anyone knows if any of these is causing the problem:
-Uses redstone pulsing every 55 seconds to toggle 3 faucets
-3 Basins are used to form emerald blocks
-1 of these basins feeds its blocks back into the smeltry to make sure there is always a melting liquid to damage the villagers
-About 15 villagers are in the smeltry
-The same villagers are always used, regen crystals are used to keep them alive

Note: When i break the smeltry controller and replace it, it works again for a bit but breaks again

Any help or solutions are appreciated!

 

[YX33A]

How much lava is in this system? I've had weird stuff happen when my smeltery was dry on lava, like, molten metals refusing to mix even though they ended up doing so after I added more lava and it had just run out melting those metals level crazy.

 

[nardavin]

How much lava is in this system? I've had weird stuff happen when my smeltery was dry on lava, like, molten metals refusing to mix even though they ended up doing so after I added more lava and it had just run out melting those metals level crazy.

The smeltry is full with lava, and it is connected to a tesseract which is supplying lava from a pump in the nether

 

[nardavin]

I broke and replaced both the controller and lava tank, and now it seems to work again. I will update on whether it stays working.

 

[nardavin]

It seems to stay working. Thanks for asking me about the lava or I wouldn't have thought about breaking it!

 

[YX33A]

It seems to stay working. Thanks for asking me about the lava or I wouldn't have thought about breaking it!

No problem. Lava related bulldink has been the source of almost every issue I've had with the Smeltery.
Except that one time I couldn't get it to melt down horses until I melted down a metal first.

 

[Adonis0]

No problem. Lava related bulldink has been the source of almost every issue I've had with the Smeltery.
Except that one time I couldn't get it to melt down horses until I melted down a metal first.

It doesn't damage entities unless there's a molten something in there already. Apparently standing on lava heated stone doesn't hurt anybody.

 

[YX33A]

To be fair, I haven't had any issues getting things to die in there, except for horses. Those Horses gave me trouble.

...Actually, IIRC, they gave me tons of trouble, as I got zero glue from chucking horses in yet got emeralds just fine by chucking villagers in without adding metals first...
Hm.

 

[Dark Of The Moon]

Maybe they put in some(half) real world logic, horses have hooves and therefore they aren't killed by standing on the lava heated stone.

 

[Bruigaar]

Direwolf20 actually just released a video today on his villager farm. Apparently things bug out sometimes with the smeltery and the easiest fix is a bar of molten metal. Or if you can get a friend to help you with some blood that works too.


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[Antice]

Direwolf20 actually just released a video today on his villager farm. Apparently things bug out sometimes with the smeltery and the easiest fix is a bar of molten metal. Or if you can get a friend to help you with some blood that works too.


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real men don't beg blood from friends. they bleed it themselves.

I had a lolwut episode today btw. an endermen ported into my smeltery just before i was to take his head off... liquid ender anyone?

 

[YX33A]

real men don't beg blood from friends. they bleed it themselves.

I had a lolwut episode today btw. an endermen ported into my smeltery just before i was to take his head off... liquid ender anyone?

Yeah, that's a "easy" source of it too. Also mentioned in Mighty Smelting.
Only issue is if a pearl drops, it can melt too, and there are tons of uses for ender pearls but no way(except one mod I was sure I had seen) to make ender pearls from liquid ender.

 

[Antice]

Yeah, that's a "easy" source of it too. Also mentioned in Mighty Smelting.
Only issue is if a pearl drops, it can melt too, and there are tons of uses for ender pearls but no way(except one mod I was sure I had seen) to make ender pearls from liquid ender.

Yeah. a bummer that. especially since endermen seem to be relatively rare to catch in a swampy biome. getting enough pearls to get to the end is a pita sometimes.

 

[Vasa]

villagers wont take damage if there is no liquids in smeltery.
you shoud use fluidducts with servos , then add some metal ingot/nugget to blacklist so it doesnt output that liquid metal .
that is how i do.

 

[YX33A]

Yeah. a bummer that. especially since endermen seem to be relatively rare to catch in a swampy biome. getting enough pearls to get to the end is a pita sometimes.

Hardly so if you are a clever player; I have a way to get a 100% chance to get a pearl from a enderman. It's not impossible or even hard, just sorta difficult to set up at times.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

Hardly so if you are a clever player; I have a way to get a 100% chance to get a pearl from a enderman. It's not impossible or even hard, just sorta difficult to set up at times.

Or if you know how to find the end portal with 2 throws...

 

[YX33A]

Or if you know how to find the end portal with 2 throws...

Yeah, but then it can still take up to 12 pearls to open the gate, and ain't nobody got time for that.
No, much better to find a way to easily mass farm pearls that doesn't actually involve farming IMO. So a enderman auschwitz I'm making. And it's all gonna be alright...

 

[Kahless61]

Personal favorites:
* MFR Auto-spawner with an enderman pokeball.
* Rogue Dungeons have probably a 50% chance of spawning an enderman room (easily recognized by the black and white checkerboard pattern)
* Ominous Woods spawn Endermen and Spiders a LOT more frequently than other biomes.

 

[Antice]

Yeah, but then it can still take up to 12 pearls to open the gate, and ain't nobody got time for that.
No, much better to find a way to easily mass farm pearls that doesn't actually involve farming IMO. So a enderman auschwitz I'm making. And it's all gonna be alright...

Enderman Auschwitz. that kinda has a nasty tone to it. I like it. finding an enderlily helps too. and yeah. getting the enough eyes for the portal itself is the grindy part. i rarely use more than maybe 3 eyes in order to find the portal. sometimes 0... the fortresses aren't that hard to find really. it's just that long range exploration without an enderchest pair is rather frustrating. soo many goodies one has to come back for later unless a system for sending it back home is in place.

my current monster world has me stumped tho. I've been all over, but not a single enderlily seed, nor any of those floating Ilands in the sky. both key parts of my plan for world domination. time to rethink my plans i guess.

 

[Talonar]

Hardly so if you are a clever player; I have a way to get a 100% chance to get a pearl from a enderman. It's not impossible or even hard, just sorta difficult to set up at times.

Eh, my ender lily's laugh at your difficulty. Seriously though, unless you need HUNDREDS immediately and can wait and let a farm grow, I do recommend ender lily farms for ender pearls less tall gangly people mad at you that way anyway.