Request Understanding Logistics Liquids

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Firelizzard

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I'm on a server running FTB Unleashed v1.1.7. I'm trying to figure out how to make good use of logistics liquid pipes etc.

How do I add an item -> liquid recipe to the system?
I want Logistics to know that if it supplies a Magma Crucible with an ender pearl, the crucible will supply 250mb of resonant ender.

If this isn't possible, can it be? Crafting liquids seems to be a natural extension to Logistics.
 

Sidorion

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You can't craft liquids on demand in LP. You'll have to use fluid provider pipes on your fluid storage or fluid producers. In the case of your crucible you have to supply it with ender pearls and it will process them to resonant ender. The internal buffer will fill up and the fluid will be provided for crafting.

To craft with liquids you need:
- a fluid crafting upgrade in your crafting pipe
- a fluid satellite pipe on the crafting block
- a crafting block that is capable of crafting with fluids (e.g. MFC Liquicrafter, Forestry Carpenter or TE Cyclic assembler)
The fluid satellite you config as any other satellite pipe to a certain channel
In the crafting pipe you will see a tab on the left resembling the fluid crafting upgrade. Here you config the kind and amount of fluid required for the crafting process and which satellite pipe to use. The normal items you configure as normal (maybe with another item satellite)
In the crafting block you set up the recipe as you would do normally (e.g. ghost items using buckets of the fluid)

In my world I craft enderium with LP using a hopper, a pulverizer, a cyclic assembler, an induction smelter, a fluid satellite, a normal satellite and a crafting pipe. Pulverizer, assembler and smelter sit next to each other, configured to output to the next machine (important: the smelter ouputs to the bottom). The hopper is set to the pulverizer, the satellite is set on the hopper and the fluid satellite is set on the assembler.
The crafting pipe sits on top of the smelter and is configured as follows:
- 1000mb resonant ender in the fluid satellite
- 2 tin ingots, 1 silver ingot and one shiny ingot in the satellite
- 2 pyrotium dusts in the normal slots

Now when you request enderium, 1 bucket worth of resonant ender is put into the tank of the assembler, the ingots are put into the hopper and the pyrothium is put into the smelter. The ingots are pulverized and also put into the assembler which crafts four enderium blend and exports them to the smelter. Here the enderium is smelted and the resulting ingots can be taken out by the crafting pipe (crafting pipes extract from all sides)