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ZenonSeth wrote:I have an issue with how this mod works - specifically flow control.
Maybe someone can help me out.

I have 1 auto-crafter that receives Cobblestone and makes Gravel (the server has a recipe for that). My supply of cobblestone is automated.

Now I have connected a Blinking Plant to an Injector that takes things Out of the Auto-crafter, and puts them in a chest to buffer some inputs.

Here's the problem. If the chest is full, the items get returned to the INPUT inventory of the auto-crafter, eventually filling it up with junk, and blocking it. The injector can never take items from the input inventory.

Strongly related, I also need to have the Injector connected via pipes to some chests. BUT, if all the chests are full, the injector just keeps dumping items in the pipes until they "break" (it does this because of the Blinking Plant)

Compare this to the TubeLib Pusher, which (while simplified) won't constantly take out items from an inventory unless it CAN put them somewhere. If it cannot, it will stop.

I don't mean that pipeworks should copy that behavior, but I'd really like a way to limit the flow or the way Injectors grab stuff. Maybe have a Requester that, when attached to chests, will signal that chest has space?

• Have items feed to into a master chest
• Use a stack-wise injector (just for speed) to feed a sorting tube
• The sort tube was used to direct the two needed blocks (and feed their corresponding storage chest -- being staged to feed the autocrafter) anything that did not match those blocks were sent to another location (could be a trashcan, etc)
• Another pipe was connected to the two that fed these staging chests, if the chests were full then the incoming item would continue traveling down this second pipe.
• This second pipe was connected back into the master chest -- where they would then be re-injected to the sort tube and continue around and around ( ie in a holding pattern).

input = incoming items
output = outgoing items from autocrafter
===== , || = pipes
>>, << = one-way tube in given direction
>>> = injector

input======== >> ================||=====(trashcan / teleport-tube, etc)
                                 ||
           ||= >> ==============chest >>> ================||
           ||                                             ||
||== >> ======chest >>> =========autocrafter===output     ||
||                                                        ||
||========================================================||

VanessaE wrote:The gear comes from basic_materials and is made from chain links and steel ingots:

MarSoft wrote:Created issue #82 about that.

Stronk wrote:Is there a way to make a pipe turn on lights(that the tube is touching) as items pass through the tube? I thought the conducting tube did this function but now I see it's just conductive.

rubenwardy wrote:

Stronk wrote:Is there a way to make a pipe turn on lights(that the tube is touching) as items pass through the tube? I thought the conducting tube did this function but now I see it's just conductive.

You want an item detecting tube with a meselamp or some mese-powered light

Segmented Worm wrote:Whenever I try to run the mod it says: unsatisfied dependencies: basic_materials