Redstone Engines not moving at all

[hotrods20]

As the title says, I can't get redstone engines to move or work. Is this a common bug or do some users not get this problem? I have connected the redstone engine to every type of BC machine. Any known fixes?

[theprolo]

Have you tried powering it with redstone?

[hotrods20]

Well yeah. That is just obvious. I can use Stirling and combustion engines.

[theprolo]

How about screenshots? Could help explain it.

[hotrods20]

[theprolo]

Is this on a server? If it is, test it on Singleplayer.

[hotrods20]

This is in my single player world. I did just test my redstone engine on a pump and it works but it won't work with my quarries or my fisher. Any ideas?

[theprolo]

Perhaps it doesn't output enough power to run on higher powered machines like the Quarry anymore. They don't work in wooden conductive pipes anymore.

[lukeb28]

Little suggestion, a redstone engine will never power that quarry at a meaningful speed. also, was it working before and it suddenly stopped working or did you put it down and it just wont turn on?

Edit: Why must you always ninga me?!?

[hotrods20]

I knew they didn't work with wooden conductive pipes but it seems that it is kind of odd that no notes have been released about redstone engines not working with quarries. Thanks for your help though. Maybe a future announcement or fix will come along outlining this.

Edit: I placed them and they would just heat up.

[lukeb28]

Its not that it needs a fix. Redstone engines are just only meant for moving items between chests and running pumps. they are just low tier things. That's like expecting a single water mill to be able to power a mass fab at a meaningful speed.

[hotrods20]

I guess so. It doesn't even run the pump at reasonable speed. I guess it is just a new restriction to deal with. Thanks for all your help lukeb28 and theprolo.

[lukeb28]

No problem. And they do run a pump well enough to run 14 water strainers at once. I think that's a good rate.

[freakachu]

it seems that the newer versions of BC do this with low output engines. if what you're trying to power won't run on the amount of energy put out by the engine, it just sits there looking like it doing nothing (and essentially, it is doing nothing). I guess this is their obscure way of trying to let you know that you aren't generating enough power to power the block or something.

[Teraku]

MJ tends to dissipate very quickly when sitting idle in engines and machines. The engine probably senses that the energy would dissipate before the quarry would have enough to do something.