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What to do with creosote
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I'm afraid the diamond autarchic gate isn't working. I have it set up exactly as I was instructed. 7 conditions are set to redstone signal off --> energy pulsar. I've made absolutely sure that there aren't any redstone signals getting to the gate. It's only extracting 1 item at a time.
Someone Else 37
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Really? That's odd... I've tested that before, and it worked as I described. Gates have been reworked some since then, so it might've gotten broken. I'll try to remember to test it tomorrow and poke asie if necessary.
The only thing I can think of that might cause that is if there's only one item in the first occupied slot of whatever you're extracting from. I don't think wooden pipes can extract from more than one slot at once.
Try placing some other type of engine- a stirling engine, say- next to the wooden pipe, like the redstone engine that I assume you used to have, and give it fuel and a redstone signal. That definitely used to pull 10-20 items at a time.
rhn
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Yes the Forestry Farm automatically outputs into any inventory/pipes that are attached to the underside of the Hatch. Remove that Emerald pipe and it will output it at the same rate it harvests.
This whole process has given me infinite fuel in the forms of coal and coke. I have over a thousand coke blocks stored up already. and more than 15 thousand buckets of creosote that I'm using to power a liquid fueled boiler to power my 9 lasers. The coal blocks are also being used to fuel all my endoflames. My next project is to set up smaller multi farms to harvest metals, make them into ores, then quintuple them with Mekanism machines being powered by the steam my farm is producing. That's going to be a huge undertaking because of the solar evaporation blocks I need to make. I want to build the biggest structure available to produce as much brine as I can.
This video explains the whole process. All in all, the process is simple to understand, but very difficult to make.
This video explains the whole process. All in all, the process is simple to understand, but very difficult to make.
KingTriaxx
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Don't forget to find a desert to setup in.
A question about the pipe: Did you setup a filter on the emerald pipe?
A question about the pipe: Did you setup a filter on the emerald pipe?
KingTriaxx
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White listing is what I meant by filtering. That's very strange. It used to work just like the wooden pipe, only with the ability to say: Only extract this.
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So I just tested some things; it turns out that the behavior of autarchic gates has been changed a bit. With one energy pulser active, they seem to choose between extracting one and two items at random; multiple pulsers do still appear to double that, up to four. More than four active pulsers seem to have no effect; anywhere from four to eight will empty a stack of 64 items in about five pulses. So diamond gates really don't have any advantage over gold gates in that respect.
Higher-powered engines do still increase the number of items pulled. The Creative Engine is the only one I've tested that can pull more than sixteen items at once; it pulls half a stack. A hot industrial steam engine can pull 16 items at once, but will eventually overheat. Testing of the commercial engine is in progress.
Update: Turns out that none of the Railcraft engines ever actually overheat when they're powering a wooden pipe. They heat up to the red stage (and the more powerful engines do so more quickly); but stabilize at some point and stop gaining RF. All of them (Hobbyist, Commercial, and Industrial) actually move items at the same rate, despite their differing steam consumption and energy production rates: sixteen at a time when fully heated.
Higher-powered engines do still increase the number of items pulled. The Creative Engine is the only one I've tested that can pull more than sixteen items at once; it pulls half a stack. A hot industrial steam engine can pull 16 items at once, but will eventually overheat. Testing of the commercial engine is in progress.
Update: Turns out that none of the Railcraft engines ever actually overheat when they're powering a wooden pipe. They heat up to the red stage (and the more powerful engines do so more quickly); but stabilize at some point and stop gaining RF. All of them (Hobbyist, Commercial, and Industrial) actually move items at the same rate, despite their differing steam consumption and energy production rates: sixteen at a time when fully heated.
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That's a useful bit of information. I'm not using engines to extract items from the farm though. I just have my barrel right against the hatch and the items are pulled/pushed into the barrel as fast as they're harvested. But this is still some useful information for other projects.
Does Wasteland in Regrowth have the same effect on the salination chamber that a desert would? I really hope so. I'm not deep enough into Witchery to perform biome changes yet. I need to get a familiar before the coven witches will talk to me, then I need to perform some task for them to have them join my coven. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it's also something I've never done.
KingTriaxx
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I think so. It might not be perfect, but it should be pretty high. I think 2 is the absolute best, but that's only in desert.
Ok. Should be good enough considering I'm building the largest salination plant available. I actually just now finished making all of the salination blocks, now I need to make the controller, the 2 valves, and the solar panels. I'm really not looking forward to making the solar panels...