Transferring liquids over distance

[vasouv]

Evening FTBers, I come bearing a question (and not gifts)!

So, I'm playing the Magic World Pack and I'm a huge noob when it comes to automation and such <- this will determine the complexity of your answers

Let's say I want to transfer large liquid masses over significant distance, either it's an oil well I found 200 blocks away or some exposed sea-level lava pool, to use them in my base. Or even the opposite, transfer it from my base to my current project site and power combustion engines.

Which is the easiest way to accomplish this?

 

[slay_mithos]

I would suggest you use railscraft.
You can link tank carts together, and attach an anchor cart to them, so that they can travel a long distance while keeping the area loaded only where they need.

That means a lot of wood, iron, and creosote oil (made by transforming coal into coke in the coke oven).

An other easy way is to use buildcraft pipes, bu you will need to ensure all the way is loaded at all time (world anchors), and that is costly, but the pipes themselves are just stone(or gold), glass and cactus.

If you want, you can also use portaglun with the railscraft setup, but that means making portal spawners and other stuff like that.


You could also use trains from trainscraft (Mindcrack pack) that you run, or mystcraft portals (Direwolf20 pack).

As you can see, there are quite a lot of ways to do that, it's more a question of "do you want to bother with rails or not?".

 

[MilConDoin]

You could use liquid transposers from thermal expansion to transfer between liquid and canned liquid, then transport the cans via enderchests.

 

[slay_mithos]

Indeed, that is an easy way to do it, but unless you have tons of bee wax, it can become a little costly to transport massive amount, as tin is not quite that abundant.

EDIT:
Ok, sorry, I didn't read acurately enough.
you are playing the magic mod pack, and it does indeed have mystcraft too, so the mystcraft way is feasible too, but the crystals for it are a pain to get anyway.

 

[Yusunoha]

Indeed, that is an easy way to do it, but unless you have tons of bee wax, it can become a little costly to transport massive amount, as tin is not quite that abundant.

the reason to use liquid transposers is because they dont use up the cans/cells/buckets or whatever, it returns them. but in turn for that the liquid transposer does need power to work.

 

[vasouv]

Hey guys, I really appreciate the help. Yeah my first guess was to use Buildcraft pipes with tanks in between the distance as buffers but, I cannot know how far I'm going to find oil so... I think Railcraft it is for a couple of hundred blocks distance and then Mystcraft and transposers for greater distances... Nevertheless, I won't build EVERYTHING in my base, I'm still going to expand but it's good to have alternatives hehe

 

[Greyed]

An other easy way is to use buildcraft pipes, bu you will need to ensure all the way is loaded at all time (world anchors), and that is costly, but the pipes themselves are just stone(or gold), glass and cactus.

It isn't too expensive as long as there is a straight shot between the end points. World Anchor on one point, Anchor Sentinel on the other, all chunks between are loaded.

And I just learned about Personal Anchors which is precisely what I was looking for to solve a problem on my current SMP server.

 

[slay_mithos]

Oh, I just learned something great today.
Didn't know you could tell world anchor to load something else than the 3x3 chuncks.