A list of random issues/questions I have come across last few weeks

[Mereet]

In no particular order ..

Set up a wool factory putting exactly 6 sheep of every color into thier respective pens. The right hand side housing 8 colors never had issues. The left hand side with the other colors had constent sheep ninja through walls issues. Never failed, I would always have 3-6 sheep outside the barn on only that side. Any ideas on what causes this? I made the walls on that side 2 blocks thick and seems to alleviate the issue but if there is something else I can do would love to hear it.

Fertilizers from Factorization. Set up a automated wheat farm powering 48 factorization machines with a MFE/1 Medium Voltage Solar Array (ya I know not likely enough power but all I had atm). Despite the potential power draw issues everything received juice except the Fertilizers which were literally 2 blocks from the Planter's receiving power. 2 Fertilizers closest to MFE did receive power. After some testing I redid the wire grid with a LV Solar Panel piping to only 18 of the machines (1 side) directly no storage inbetween and the LV powered all 18 just fine in daylight including 6 Fertilizers but was closer to said machines by about 15blocks than the MFE was. Is it a distance thing with the Fertilizers? Should add I tested both Glass Fibre and 4x Gold wiring.

Lead and Ferrous Ore. Set up a factory utilizing all barrels for storage being fed by 2 60x60ish quarries. Everythings filters great with a simple Chest > Transposer > Phuematic Tubes > Barrels system except cooked Lead/Ferrous ingots .. some go into barrel but most goto overflow chest. Anyone know why or how to fix issue?

Redpower Pumps. Will they drain a quarry even with unevenness of said water all over the place. 60x60 quarries. Does suction grate need to be all the way at the bottom?

Sorry so long for first post but figured would cram all questions into one post. Thank you in advance for your time.

[ashkorewd]

I can't answer your sheep ninja's problem, though I believe it's just a bug within minecraft itself.

As for the Fertilizers, when I did the auto-farm, I used solars to power the fertilizers. I put the solar panel two squares above it and ran the wire down to the fertilizer. It worked great, as long as there was sunlight. As a backup, I ran a couple electric engines attached to a batbox/solar panel system, and it kept the fertilizer running day and night with no power issues. I would say make sure it has its own power base to prevent it from losing too much power, and, also, use a lever to shut it off when it is low on power. This will give it plenty of time to charge up.

Sorry, I don't know enough about the sorting of items with the barrels to help here, though I do know that some items cannot go into the barrels at all, and that could be part of the problem.

With redpower pumps, you need to manage the grates down as your water levels lower, to empty the water. The grates will pull the water from within a certain distance of themselves (I believe it is only up to 32 squares in any direction, could be less) and move it to whereever you want it moved to. Remember to keep your pumps power high, otherwise you won't be able to move the water fast enough to prevent infinite water spawning.

[Mereet]

Thank you so much for your reply. Very helpful in expanding my knowledge/understanding as just a novice trying to navigate the 8173438740137840 possibilities in Tekkit Lite

Ninja sheep are the devil

[ashkorewd]

they are LOL. I know there's got to be some way to manage it, but, I haven't found it yet, short of making a farm that's 11 x 11 wide, and putting a rancher in the center of each side. gives the sheep room to breathe, and the ranchers a chance to harvest the wool. Could also do the same with cows and mooshrooms... porkchop and steak harvesting is much more fun though. Takes chrono-devices, breeders, and your auto-wheat farm... amazing once you get it running.

[Mereet]

they are LOL. I know there's got to be some way to manage it, but, I haven't found it yet, short of making a farm that's 11 x 11 wide, and putting a rancher in the center of each side. gives the sheep room to breathe, and the ranchers a chance to harvest the wool. Could also do the same with cows and mooshrooms... porkchop and steak harvesting is much more fun though. Takes chrono-devices, breeders, and your auto-wheat farm... amazing once you get it running.

Hrmm interesting will look into that as due to some server issues had to completely start over from scratch. It's only my girlfriend and I on the server, and while starting over is daunting sometimes, it's fun to apply what we have learned from previous builds. Going to definately try what you mentioned above once the materials are obtained, thank you.

[ashkorewd]

sounds good to me! I hope you enjoy it!

[Sazrocks]

I can't answer your sheep ninja's problem, though I believe it's just a bug within minecraft itself.

As for the Fertilizers, when I did the auto-farm, I used solars to power the fertilizers. I put the solar panel two squares above it and ran the wire down to the fertilizer. It worked great, as long as there was sunlight. As a backup, I ran a couple electric engines attached to a batbox/solar panel system, and it kept the fertilizer running day and night with no power issues. I would say make sure it has its own power base to prevent it from losing too much power, and, also, use a lever to shut it off when it is low on power. This will give it plenty of time to charge up.

Sorry, I don't know enough about the sorting of items with the barrels to help here, though I do know that some items cannot go into the barrels at all, and that could be part of the problem.

With redpower pumps, you need to manage the grates down as your water levels lower, to empty the water. The grates will pull the water from within a certain distance of themselves (I believe it is only up to 32 squares in any direction, could be less) and move it to whereever you want it moved to. Remember to keep your pumps power high, otherwise you won't be able to move the water fast enough to prevent infinite water spawning.

I can't answer your sheep ninja's problem, though I believe it's just a bug within minecraft itself.

As for the Fertilizers, when I did the auto-farm, I used solars to power the fertilizers. I put the solar panel two squares above it and ran the wire down to the fertilizer. It worked great, as long as there was sunlight. As a backup, I ran a couple electric engines attached to a batbox/solar panel system, and it kept the fertilizer running day and night with no power issues. I would say make sure it has its own power base to prevent it from losing too much power, and, also, use a lever to shut it off when it is low on power. This will give it plenty of time to charge up.

Sorry, I don't know enough about the sorting of items with the barrels to help here, though I do know that some items cannot go into the barrels at all, and that could be part of the problem.

With redpower pumps, you need to manage the grates down as your water levels lower, to empty the water. The grates will pull the water from within a certain distance of themselves (I believe it is only up to 32 squares in any direction, could be less) and move it to whereever you want it moved to. Remember to keep your pumps power high, otherwise you won't be able to move the water fast enough to prevent infinite water spawning.

About what you said about the pump length limit: I'm draining the nether with one of those. Repeat: one.

[ashkorewd]

I've always had to move it. I've used one, with an infinite length of pipe, but, the longer the pipe the more energy I've needed to put into the pump to power it. I didn't say you had to use more than one, i've just never been able to do more than a small area with out moving it every few hours.