GreenGeek11 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I've been working on an auto fuel generator, and I've hit a wall. So I use an energy condenser to get buckets of oil. Then I send those buckets out. I need a way to get the oil out of the buckets and into the refinery. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuriy Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I don't recall if a deployer facing a tank would deposit oil into it or not but it'd be worth a shot. If not, you could try deploying into a block then have a pump suck it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGeek11 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Tried Deployers, the Buckets just sit in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge34 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Yup deployers need empty space to deploy their content for this and I'm quite sure you can't really spill out oil anywhere with a bucket anyway (can't right click with it to get oil out anyway), they can retrieve content from a tank but not deposit their content into it. I've got a similar problem, my refinery is way out in the woods and my base is not that far away but just enough that its not possible to do it with pipes, not sure how to retrieve that precious fuel I've made, was thinking about teleport pipes but they crash my server 90% of the time so I can't really use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torezu Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 What about deployer(s) facing an empty, mostly enclosed block with a pump above it? That...would work, wouldn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringburka Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Tested deployer on empty ground below pump. Works, but is a bit slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleweseth Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 There's also the Oil Fabricator, which accepts IndustrialCraft EU's and makes oil. The conversion rate is 50,000 EU per bucket of oil. It's actually reasonably fast and cheap - considering that each bucket of oil can be refined into fuel that's worth 625,000 EU when converted back to IndustrialCraft EUs! The net energy profit from the Oil Fabricator -> Refinery -> Combustion Engine -> Engine Generator process lets you build perpetual fuel-creating machines like this: This is an array of 32 Combustion Engines running four refineries and two Oil Fabricators. The net fuel gain isn't anything to write home about, but I didn't take the time to optimise this. (I hate Buildcraft and only built this as a proof of concept.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuriy Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 What about deployer(s) facing an empty, mostly enclosed block with a pump above it? That...would work, wouldn't it? That is what I said in my second line but I don't think they understood it that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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