[Mod] Pipeworks [git] [pipeworks]

[DoyleChris]

If i shut all off except the one that sorts it acts like a regular tube, till it hits a sort color that is active.
You use the green if you want it to go to tge second level.
then white to sort to chest on top and bottom
And you can use the red color as a filter.

[ThatGraemeGuy]

I'm sorry, I'm not really following what you mean. Are you trying to describe some behaviour that you are seeing that isn't what you expect?

[DoyleChris]

Nevermind ill setup some tubes in creative mode and try stuff.

[DoyleChris]

Is there a way to sort just Lumps of items. Instead of a specific item.

[ThatGraemeGuy]

Is there a way to sort just Lumps of items. Instead of a specific item.

Not sure what you mean, can you elaborate?

[DoyleChris]

when you dig a block of gold out of the ground you get a lump. What i want is to have a transport tube take all the lumps and send them to the grinders then grinders to furnace.
But right now you only have a selection of 6 selections. So i want to say just all the lumps.

[ThatGraemeGuy]

That isn't currently possible. I've also wondered before if it would be possible to allow filtering on item string or description text, but I don't have enough Lua smarts to even begin to look into something like that.

[hb.operandi]

Does this mod have any compatibility issues with Mesecons? I can't seem to get the water pump on, punching it only puts it back in my inventory. Everytime I add a switch or a lever, they disappear while playing the sound, comes back and flips green like it's on, then pop into my inventory. But the water pump stays off.

Is there a config I need to change?

[VanessaE]

No compat issues that I'm aware of - the symptoms you describe aren't something I've ever had happen before.

[DoyleChris]

I have a problem where ingots coming out of the furnace overwhelmes the tubes and ingots start coming out of the tubes then fly back in. And i get this error.

2015-09-18 17:58:49: ERROR[main]: Client::handleCommand_ActiveObjectMessages: caught SerializationError: deSerializeString: couldn't read all chars
2015-09-18 17:58:49: ERROR[main]: Client::handleCommand_ActiveObjectMessages: caught SerializationError: deSerializeString: couldn't read all chars
2015-09-18 17:58:50: ERROR[main]: Client::handleCommand_ActiveObjectMessages: caught SerializationError: deSerializeString: couldn't read all chars
2015-09-18 17:58:50: ERROR[main]: Client::handleCommand_ActiveObjectMessages: caught SerializationError: deSerializeString: couldn't read all chars

[DoyleChris]

Here is a picture of what it does.

Pipeworks.jpg (381.85 KiB) Viewed 912 times

Notice the ingots flying out of the Tube but they come back and the error in the upper left.

[Dartmouth]

Yes, this happens a lot when there are many pipes with lots of items active...

[DoyleChris]

any fix for it besides lowering the amount of items in tubes.

[Dartmouth]

Afaik, no. The engine just can't handle too many objects at once, so updating the positions is laggy.

[ThatGraemeGuy]

It's only a visual glitch anyway, you aren't actually losing any items.

[DoyleChris]

Im trying to figure out that error and it only happens when a bunch of stuff is in the pipes.

[ThatGraemeGuy]

Im trying to figure out that error and it only happens when a bunch of stuff is in the pipes.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/2941

[Alienant1]

Can someone make a patch to allow you to take stuff out of the fuel bit of a furnace with a filter. I am finding this really annoying with lava buckets and ethanol bottles in an automatic crafting engine.

[Prot]

I built a large enough pipeline for processing ore from the grinding to blocks(*9 ingots)
and noticed one unpleasant situation:
I found that when the pipes are objects, and you're out, or far enough away, all the items in the pipes is lost.
And have a huge loss of resources because of this, I lose the ore, lose dust, lose bars, lose blocks..
In logs i get this messages:

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2015-10-22 13:15:10: ERROR[ServerThread]: ServerEnv: Trying to store id=44260 statically but block (1272,1,1230) already contains 49 objects. Forcing delete.
2015-10-22 13:15:10: ERROR[ServerThread]: ServerEnv: Trying to store id=44261 statically but block (1272,1,1230) already contains 49 objects. Forcing delete.
2015-10-22 13:15:10: ERROR[ServerThread]: ServerEnv: Trying to store id=44262 statically but block (1272,1,1230) already contains 49 objects. Forcing delete.

To prevent massive resource loss, for workaround this problem i place the technic:admin_anchor nearby pipeline.

[VanessaE]

Add these to your minetest.conf:

max_objects_per_block = 500
max_forceloaded_blocks = 300

This will help that issue.

[AceWill]

Would it be possible to have a pipe that will separate a stack of input into two half stacks?

Another one that I think would be nice would be a pipe that routes incoming items according to a set ratio, for instance: divert three out of every ten items to one output, and send everything else to another output? It would be very similar to a sorting pipe, except it just looks at the number of objects instead of what those objects actually are.

This would be helpful in technic, if I wanted to do something like dedicate 25% of my copper to get turned into cables, or two thirds of my iron into carbon steel, and then turn half the carbon steel into rebar for concrete. I am sure it is possible to set something like this up using careful routing of tube intersections and one way tubes, but I would like something that doesn't take up so much space.

Some kind of mesecons operated valve tube would also be very useful, i.e. a tube that only allows items to pass if it has a mesecon signal.

[tbillion]

just downloaded pipeworks... from the link in the main post to update my version. im running minetest 4.13 and it broke :( error is >>

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2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]: ModError: Failed to load and run script from /home/tjohnson/minetest/bin/../mods/pipeworks/init.lua:
2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]: ...n/minetest/bin/../mods/pipeworks/autoplace_tubes.lua:115: attempt to call field 'register_on_mvps_move' (a nil value)
2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]:       ...n/minetest/bin/../mods/pipeworks/autoplace_tubes.lua:115: in main chunk
2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]:       [C]: in function 'dofile'
2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]:       ...ome/tjohnson/minetest/bin/../mods/pipeworks/init.lua:91: in main chunk
2015-11-21 10:30:35: ERROR[Main]: Check debug.txt for details.
2015-11-21 10:32:39: WARNING[Main]: NodeDefManager: Ignoring CONTENT_IGNORE redefinition

and i tested it with multiple worlds including a fresh new blank one, any suggestions?

edit: yes the files are in the right folder and all no, i ddint put the int script in the wrong place :P

[VanessaE]

Usually when it throws that error, it means you also have a copy of Mesecons in place, which is probably out-of-date.

[tbillion]

Super cool thanks alot! i had downloaded it just not dumped it into the mods folder... Awesome save!

[tbillion]

if i have an ABM place pipeworks how do i get the tubes to face each other instead of do this?