Two Questions, water leaks & rednet at server restart

[Boundary]

Hi hi

Two simple questions (I hope!)...

First one is probably straight forward, rednet cables, whenever I do a server restart a bunch of funky things happen. I have two T5 spider spawners that like to turn themselves on & several industrial steam engines that like to turn themselves off. Although annoying I am not terribly phased by the losing some power for a few hours, but the spawners stop me from automating server restarts which I would really like to be able to do. The setup is not complicated, for the spawners its several spawners (druid, skele, zombie & spiders) attached to the same run of rednet cable all correctly colour coded & levered (orange rednet at lever to orange rednet at spawner, etc etc) - only the spider spawners turn themselves on - the chunks are all loaded that the spawners & cabling are in. I have attached a screenshot for the industrial steam engines - the core of the tower is rednet cabling with the engines attached to each side of it, cable runs underground & then back up to the lever position, generally I attach more than one engine tower per lever (generally 2 given the situation). Some engines have more than one connection on the same run of rednet cable. It's reasonably consistent which ones turn off, although not always.

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Some engines turned off...

These ones seem to be fine?

Then my leak... This has me totally lost? Basically consistently in 3 places in my base liquiducts fill themselves with water where there is no water & as far as I am concerned it is a closed loop. For example genepool -> to liquiduct -> to liquid teseract set to send only. All the glass tank components in my smeltery as well as the liquiduct I have attached to it & sometimes even the smeltery like to take on water as well?

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Liquiduct

Liquiduct, yes another... (I spared you all looking at number 3 though =P)

Smeltery (soon to be fish tank)

Any help would be appreciated & sorry for the long post!
Thanks!

edit... I think I put this in the wrong place, please can it be moved if necessary.

 

[riciJak]

Got the same problem with ind. steam engine connected with RedNet cable, every time I play some of them turned off don't know why and its kinda annoying to turn them on again. also with wireless transmitter/reciever.
playing ftb Unleashed SP

leaks maybe caused by your texture pack.

 

[Boundary]

Got the same problem with ind. steam engine connected with RedNet cable, every time I play some of them turned off don't know why and its kinda annoying to turn them on again. also with wireless transmitter/reciever.
playing ftb Unleashed SP

leaks maybe caused by your texture pack.

Thanks for the reply, I will try switch out my tp - don't think it's that though as other members on the server are seeing that water as well & I can drain it & watch it slowly refill over time.

The rednet issue only happens on server restart, other than that they behave very well.

 

[TangentialThreat]

I am not 100% on what is happening with your rednet, but I very carefully placed my entire grinder setup within a single chunk and made it self-contained just to avoid anything weird like this ever happening. Try changing the color of the spider spawner cable?

I read that the water-in-pipes issue happens when empty piping and tanks are exposed to the sky during a rainstorm.

 

[b0bst3r]

For soulshard spawners use a sticky piston pushing a redstone brick up against it to turn on or off as rednet loses it's on status after a server restart.

 

[Boundary]

I am not 100% on what is happening with your rednet, but I very carefully placed my entire grinder setup within a single chunk and made it self-contained just to avoid anything weird like this ever happening. Try changing the color of the spider spawner cable?

I read that the water-in-pipes issue happens when empty piping and tanks are exposed to the sky during a rainstorm.

Thanks for the suggestions, I have tried changing the colours already, including re-building everything. Regardubg the liquids, the pipes may have been exposed to rain at some point, but they have been broken & replaced so many times now undercover. I thought maybe it was some kind of reversal from a tesseract but since not every situation has a tesseract it couldn't be that either.

For soulshard spawners use a sticky piston pushing a redstone brick up against it to turn on or off as rednet loses it's on status after a server restart.

Thanks I like that idea, It's gonna need me to do some rebuilding but I am looking to upgrade my spawners I think you just gave me the motivation I was looking for