Range of ender-thermic pump.

[Kotja]

Does ender-thermic pump have range?

[EvilOwl]

Running in creative now. Will edit.

 

Edit 1:

 

It looks like its pumping chunks rather than blocks.

 

It did the chunk where it was placed and four neighbour chunks (plus shaped).

 

Edit 2:

 

It expanded the plus shape further. Now its 5x5 chunks with the pump in the middle.

 

Edit 3:

 

It's going for the missing chunks and reworking the plus shape for a square 5x5 chunks.

 

Edit 4:

 

This is going to take a looooong time. It's going 11x11 now and still pumping.

Edited June 1, 2014 by bochen415

[Curunir]

Can't name the exact number, but it will eventually pump out a diamond-shaped area with quite many chunks. It will reach a limit eventually, but this will take (real-time) hours at full speed.

 

P.S.: Downwards, it will usually pump the full depth of a lava lake out. It will occasionally miss a few lava blocks for some reason, but really only a few.

Edited June 2, 2014 by Curunir

[Kotja]

Good.

I have multiple pumps because I use lot of lava (10000 Rf/t magmatic engine array in my main energy network and four maximal energy for laser drill precharger)

[Curunir]

Nether lava is plentiful, but not endless. To power Laser Drills, either nuclear power or a self-sustaining Biofuel/Charcoal farm-factory is recommended. With lava, you will get to the point where you have to travel around a turned-to-stone Nether (!) to find unused lava lakes to pump out. I have reached that point, and I didn't even bother using Magmatics. It all went into my alchemy chain.