Water or Apple Juice

[Boomaholic]

I had the same issue with apple juice. I have a large steve's carts farm right now for saplings, feeding 5 fermenters... along with 3 squeezers for apple juice, but they were not keeping up with thefermenters so i ended up making an orchard multifarm in hopes to compensate, but now i have an overabundance of mulch, which, while awesome. I've found fairly useless outside the fermenters

 

[adjl]

I have an aqueous accumulator which is turned off by a redstone signal when there's apple juice in my tank, and the liquiduct that pumps the apple juice out of the tank is switched on by the same gate. Both of these are liquiducted to the same fermenter. The net effect of this is that my fermenter switches to water when there's not enough apple juice, and switches back to apple juice when there is enough of that. Simple, but effective.

This is what I do. Buildcraft Gate on a structural pipe next to a squeezer that turns on a redstone signal when the juice tank is full (since doing it whenever there was anything in the tank would just result in excessive switching). This toggles a RP2 NOT Gate that's right next to a liquiduct that plugs into a buildcraft tank sitting on top of an aqueous accumulator, stopping it from pumping. Once the water in the fermenter gets used up, the liquiduct (which also connects to the squeezers) fills with apple juice, and I start getting the 50% boost. Once the tank loses some juice, the water will start trying to pump into the liquiduct again, but won't be able to because there's juice in there, so it'll continue running on juice until the juice runs out. Gives a bit of extra production when the apples are available, and requires absolutely no input from me.

Of course, this only applies if you're using Oaks. If you're using Redwoods or something else for your sapling needs, then you'll only have any apples to squeeze if you set up an orchard to supply them. But that should be obvious.

 

[Skirty_007]

(since doing it whenever there was anything in the tank would just result in excessive switching)

I don't mind the switching, esp given that my apple juice tank *might* be a Railcraft 5x5x5 multiblock tank that would take quite some time to fill up. (2000 buckets isn't excessive, honest!).

 

[Chocorate]

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[Abdiel]

All the off-topic posts aside: If your biomass source is practically unlimited (which pretty much every one is), the amplifier doesn't really matter. You will get infinite power anyway. You will get a little more biomass and therefore a little more MJ per operation of the fermenter, and this means potentially slightly more MJ/t with the same number of engines. But if you need more MJ/t, rather than automating bees or apples, why not just add another engine or another fermenter.

 

[YX33A]

I used to just use apple juice for drinking. But I can't seem to do so anymore... Of all the horrible things to happen in my Minecraft setup, running out of apple juice to drink was the biggest. I may just have to start drinking honey pots again. They're easy to make, thankfully. But one still needs a decent apiary setup to get enough honeydrops for the amount of food I go through.

 

[gusgillis1]

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[OmegaJasam]

The squezzer currently gets me my mulch supply while it's running, so I have an always on Apple one and an always on water one.
Apples run out from time to time (or the logs overflow jamming the system, it's not exactly well made), but it keeps the mulch supply going.
My 'failsafe' for the system if I don't touch it for days is that the tank with the biofuel's valve is not on the lowest block (and even higher for my 2nd boilder) so if it ever lams I have plenty to kick start everything again.

It's also golem run, since I've just spraeled out aorund the edge of a village and not having item pipes anywhere is refreshing.Cley golems especaly I find are /amazing/ for getting items from a to b around my charcoal/wood/apples/saplings/coal coke/ steel/uu matter/scrap e.t.c. facilities.

I just craft them in bulk, a few extra dimensional barrels, add some markers and boom, well spaced out system thats quick to change while working out the snags in the supply ratios <3