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Perfect, thank you.

That makes sense. I think I saw a video of an item that will hold a certain amount aside, right? Like for instance, I can have my auto smelting process going on to make refined iron, but tell the network to hold 64 regular iron aside and not smelt it?

After watching part two of Direwolf's videos on AE, I think I might have done things wrong. He uses some kind of processor that lets the network know that iron can change into refined iron by being put into a furnace. I've basically all of my dusts and other raw materials and changed them into ingots already, which isnt BAD I guess, but it would be better to leave them in their "rawest" useable state and let the network process them only if I call for a certain item that needs them in a more processed state. Hope that makes sense. But long story short, I think I might work on that tonight, rearrange and make patterns or whatever its called so that my network is smarter/mo betta. And then I'll work on producing bio for powering it all.

Well, it looks like I have an entire mod to learn to get my cheap power... I might stick with the nether lava solution I have going right now, it's basically just something I have to move every 2-3 days of nonstop pumping. Maybe what I need to do is set up some kind of system so I can turn off the power in the nether... that might be nice. That way I could stop the pump when I am not using power. Here's a question... does the pump move lets say 5 buckets a second nonstop no matter what the need is on the other end? Or does it only pump when it can tell the liquiduct has a draw on it from a machine? If that's the case, then I dont need any kind of switch on the pump, because it's only drawing out lava when it's needed. But if it's just constantly pumping (which doesnt seem accurate but I have to ask) then that would explain why in two days I drained an entire area of lava... I had thought that would be unlimited power but it lasted literally 48 hours, no more.

Two questions... What is an EE? And so I guess I need to watch videos specifically relating to this, but do you dump both 9x9 plots into one bioreactor? Or do you have multiple reactors? Also, mining lasers? Man, sounds cool, I need to look into it.

Ah, this sounds good. I watched a video on the farming equipment, I think Direwolf again was the caster, where he had something in the center planting, then stuff on the outside harvesting. I dont think I watched anything on a bioreactor though. Sounds like this takes up more space than my lava from the nether solution, and I assume also only works during the day so I would need some pretty big battery banks to keep power up at night?

I got a very rudimentary system going using AE. My setup is as follows... Quarry running out in the distance using a Energy Tesseract and an Item Tesseract to transport back. The items all come back to my base and go into a chest. Off the chest is an Import Bus, which then goes onto my storage drives. I have an Fuzzy Export Bus hooked to a pulverizer (actually two Fuzzy Export bus now since I had more than 8 different ore types to suck into it) and then an Import Bus to bring the pulverizer dusts back into my system. Then I have an Export bus into a electric furnace (the exact name escapes me, but its the electrical version of a furnace, induction something or other maybe) which is pulling in all the dusts and melting them into ingots. Then from there, Imported back into my AE network. So far, very cool. I dont have to do anything now, I just set up a quarry and I know that automatically any ores will go to a ingot state within not very long. The system keeps up pretty well with two 64x64 quarries running. My concern now is power... I've been pulling in lava via an Item Tesseract from the nether and using Magmatic Engines to pump out MJ to my power system. Is there a better, more sustainable way to do this? I only ask because I finally ran out of lava in the spot I was pumping from. I realized my "stuff" all quit working and was trying to figure out why and eventually figured it was that the lava flow had stopped. I thought something/someone broke my setup in the nether, but it turns out it just had drained the entire area of lava, which I didnt even know was possible. So I set up again, but I'd like a 100% no maintenance solution if there is one? TL;DR - What's the lowest maintenance "green" solution for gathering/outputting MJ energy?

I'm confused as to powering pulverizers, mine sure seems slow... I have tons of power being dumping into a pulverizer, 100MJ I think is what comes out of my redstone energy cell. Those redstone power lines leech 5% power, right? And a pulverizer only wants 4MJ? So shouldnt it be running at top speed? Or is there some way to speed up a pulverizer? and I suppose the same question applies to the other machines in that mod. The problem is that my pulverizer is only handling about 1 ore every 4-5 seconds it seems like, which is way to slow to keep up with 2 100MJ quarries.

Very nice stuff, thanks. I'll take a look more in detail into it when I get home. I didnt know about buckets either, that's new to me. I saw those in the tutorial I watched last night. If I understand correctly, they are just like a chest but they display on the outside what is contained inside? I can see how that might be nice but also with having applied energistics storage I'm not sure I have any use for buckets. Or is it barrels? Whatever it is.

Wow... I watched one video last night on my iPhone while falling asleep, I think it was Direwolf who cast it, part one of three parts about applied energistics. That mod is amazing. Seriously... crazy. Just in part one he explained the import/export which totally would do what I want, then also like 6 or 7 other parts and he said this is the simplest stuff you can do, it only gets more complicated from here. Looking forward to working with this mod I didnt get to play much yesterday so I didnt try anything but man I'm really looking forward to this and I havent even see the "cool" stuff yet. I laugh at how much Direwolf says "nice" in his videos. He's a decent caster, I hadnt seen one of his vids before but he did a good job.

Ah cool. That's the problem with this version, it seems like the high end stuff is all just building blocks into shapes. There is no super high end items. The old red armor from EE or whatever it was, that took days to save up for each piece. I had all kinds of contraptions running to get me to that point. There is nothing like that in this version. I've made all I want to make from blocks, that is old news. I want new cool items to use, not just building blocky structures. Hell, I even programmed in lua last time I was using minecraft heavily and had turtles that would build my structures for me. I built enormous cities over about the course of 2 real time days, with 20-30 turtles going at once that I just had to run around and resupply. Granted, a lot of the buildings were similar but I didnt care, it was still a vast city. Long story short, I'm done building "stuff" and just want cool new items and things to try out. The AE items look neat, I'll give those a look. Also, is the Ender dragon still in the game? Is there any other big bosses like that? And yes, I'll try going to the moon, I guess I should give that a shot.

Ah, is that the purple pipe in the supplied picture? Thanks for the graphic btw, that helps so much more than trying to explain by words. I've never even heard of an insertion pipe, nice to know they exist. I look forward to working with AE. I had such amazing factories and stuff built (worked out in Excel EXACT timing on all kinds of stuff and had huge factories all timed perfectly so they didnt waste a second and cranked out some crazy stuff) and now it's all not usable, it almost makes me want to go back to the old Tekkit. But the whole reason I started playing Minecraft again was to see the new Tekkit stuff, so I figure I shouldnt go back, what would the point be Anyway, I'll work on learning AE through the week. I hope to get some use out of all these resources. I'm kind of already seeming stuck, I've got all these resources and nothing to do with them. Before, I dumped it all into making super expensive armors and weapons and tools, but now I've already got the power armor and all the energy I could want from lava in the nether, so I'm kind of at a dead end as to what I should even use all my resources for. I dont know any high end stuff to try to make.

Thanks for the quick replies. I currently have TONS of resources, I've ran four quarries now with chunk loaders going, all 64x64 and powered by lava and magmatic engines from the nether and using energy tesseracts. So I've got basically unlimited power and unlimited resources, now I just need a way to handle those resources. So lets say in the meantime before I learn AE, I set up the loop pipe system. So here's how I envision it... Chest with a pipe coming out of it with a motor on the pipe pulling objects out. Extend that a couple pipes, then send it up two spaces then back to the chest. At the point where it goes up, I would also have it continue on into the pulverizer. So you're saying if it cant go into the pulverizer, it will just travel back down the pipe until it hits the spot where it goes up, then travel up there and back into the chest? And I have an obsidian chest full of 64 stacks of ore... that seems like a lot of items to have running around inside a pipe. I guess it wont hurt anything though? I'll start learning AE. It's slightly frustrating, I had amazing systems worked out in the older Tekkit that would churn through my ores and what not in no time and I'd have a finished ignot chest where I could pull from. I had it down to where I could build a HV solar array every 8 minutes, it was crazy. Now I feel like a complete noob again not able to do anything.

I want to automate my ore handling. Right now I have a quarry run, it transfers through an item tesseract to my base. I used pipes and diamond pipes to route everything to chests. At this point, in the old Tekkit (which I havent played for almost a year) I would have redstone filters I think they were called that pulled from the chests and put the ore into a macerator and went from there. I see nothing like that in the new Tekkit. I set up a Pulverizer, that was easy, but I cant figure out a good way to automatically place items into it in a timely manner. I've tried setting up a engine on a pipe between the chest and the pulverizer, sure that works, but the pipe floods with items then starts spitting out onto the ground. What am I doing wrong? What piece of equipment do I need to automate grabbing items from a container and moving them to a pulverizer and other like machinery, without overflowing? Again, I'm new to the new Tekkit and the mods it added. I dont need a super detailed explanation, but a point in the right direction would be great. All these YouTube videos for "automating" a pulverizer just show someone manually dropping in stacks of 64 items, and I dont want to do that, that isnt automated at all to me, all they are doing is automating the output to a container.

OK, well definitely thanks for the help. I appreciate the advice. It's weird to not be able to find an answer on Google nowadays, seems like it finds everything but I sure dont see a single reference on the web to this problem, or any indication in any kind of documentation on the mod pack that this is even something you need to do. Hopefully once Google's crawler updates, there will be one entry now, this one :)

I honestly cant find any documentation on shift and scroll (not shift click) for items. Is that only for the mod with the power armor? Or is that function used widely through minecraft? IF so, what other items use this? I'd like to know what I was missing out on.

Awesome, I just jumped on real quick from my laptop and sure enough, that was it. Shift and scroll. It was locked onto the shears, I guess... I had no idea that's the way it worked. After reading through a lot of websites and a lot of documentation, I never found that to move through different abilities you need to shift and scroll. You would think someone would have posted that by now. As side note, I just almost burned to death. My laptop isnt good for minecraft and is laggy, I right clicked and held with the railgun on and fired apparently 10 shots or so? My heat was about 3 times what my suit can take and I started on fire. I jumped in a nearby lake that thankfully I had been knocked close too, but I couldnt tell if that actually helped cool the suit down or not. I was down to 2 hearts before the flames subsided. I think if I started goofing around with the railgun I'd drop some of the electric armor off the pieces and instead go with heat plating. Although I dont PvP and rarely fight monsters anymore, so it's probably not worth it.

Yes, I definitely have power. I have 10M EJ in my batteries as of last night, I've got a whole charging station going from lava in the nether. All my other suit functions are working great, just the gun aspects of the gauntlet. Also, I've tried it with carrying around a Redstone energy battery (cant recall the name off the top of my head) that definitely is being drained by my suit but still the gun didnt work. I had no clue about the shift and scroll thing. I've never heard of that before and I've played minecraft on and off for a few years... I cant test it right now but in a few hours I'll be able to. I really hope that works. I kind of thought there had to be something like this, after all, if you have all three long range weapons installed in the gauntlet, you wouldnt want them all firing off at once... Thanks for the idea and I'll let you know as soon as I get a chance to test. And yes, I have the attachment for the chest piece to convert heat to energy but it doesnt seem to do anything really. I've jumped in lava, built up heat to the point I'm on fire and never noticed any appreciable increase in battery power remaining.

Yessir. I've tried it with battery installed in the gauntlets themselves, that didnt matter. Currently I have 5,000,000 MJ battery in the helmet and the chest piece, none in the gauntlet but again that doesnt seem to matter. Everything else works, but all the shooting functions dont see to. The railgun, the one that shoots blades, the plasma gun... they all just do nothing. Is there a hotkey I need to hit to activate that? Or is it simply once the module is install I should be able to right click and fire? I'd blame the mod except cannons, which are a different mod, also arent working. It seems to me like somehow projectile type long range weapons are not enabled on the server, but it's a default install of Tekkit so I dont know how that could be.

Nope, nothing that just the regular setup. I downloaded Tekkit, started the server and that is about it. I havent customized anything.

I'm hoping someone has an idea as to why this isnt working for me, I'm probably doing something wrong. I just started a new NEW Tekkit server. None of the items that shoot are working for us. The railgun on the powered armor, the other gun in the gauntlet too, the ground mounted cannons, nothing shoot. The cannon even takes gunpowder and a cannonball when right clicked and makes the noise, but I cant shoot. Any ideas? Is there some toggle I need to turn on to allow weapons and projectiles?