Item duct filter?

[Peterotul]

Hello everyone,

 

I have set up a quarry with tesseracts like this:

 

 

My question is: how can I filter stone, sand, etc out from the pipe?? Cause I don´t want to take all the things to my house.

 

How can I do it?

 

Thanks in advance.

[AetherPirate]

I do my filtering in-house. Everything dumped into AE system, and a fuzzy export bus hooked to a nullifier to clean out the junk.

Edited August 31, 2014 by AetherPirate

[redsector]

You need to install pneumatic servos into the item duct sections that connect to tesseracts, chests, machines etc to get access to the blacklist/whitelist settings for that connection.

 

After that, you can either...

- put a second duct on that diamond chest, set to suck cobblestone/dirt/whatever out of the chest and into a nullifier or trash can. Set redstone control to disabled and whitelist everything you want to scrap. This way, everything the quarry produces will go into that chest first and the whitelisted trash will be sucked back out.

- fork the "trash duct" off the main route, set that route on the intersection to low priority ("dense" or red) and blacklist cobblestone/dirt/etc on the chest. This way, everything that is not trash will go into the chest because it has a higher priority. Stuff that is blacklisted on the chest will take the low priority route into the trash can.

Edited August 31, 2014 by redsector

[Kalbintion]

Blacklisting on the chest shouldnt be necessary if the trash disposal system is closer to the input than the chest is. With the pipe to the chest marked for dense it should check everything else first before going there anyway.

[redsector]

Blacklisting on the chest shouldnt be necessary if the trash disposal system is closer to the input than the chest is. With the pipe to the chest marked for dense it should check everything else first before going there anyway.

 

True, but that's a different way again.

 

What I meant was to set the trash duct to dense and blacklist cobble etc. on the diamond chest. The diamond chest would therefore be the high priority route, but only accept stuff that isn't blacklisted. Said blacklisted trash would have to take the low priority route into the garbage disposal.

 

Your method would involve setting the chest to dense or low priority, therefore making the trash duct the high priority one, and whitelisting trash on the nullifier/trash can so that it doesn't accept anything except trash, making the valuable stuff take the low priority route into the chest.

 

Either way should work fine, of course.

[Kalbintion]

I misunderstood what your setup was then, but yes, either way should work just fine.

[Peterotul]

You need to install pneumatic servos into the item duct sections that connect to tesseracts, chests, machines etc to get access to the blacklist/whitelist settings for that connection.

 

After that, you can either...

- put a second duct on that diamond chest, set to suck cobblestone/dirt/whatever out of the chest and into a nullifier or trash can. Set redstone control to disabled and whitelist everything you want to scrap. This way, everything the quarry produces will go into that chest first and the whitelisted trash will be sucked back out.

- fork the "trash duct" off the main route, set that route on the intersection to low priority ("dense" or red) and blacklist cobblestone/dirt/etc on the chest. This way, everything that is not trash will go into the chest because it has a higher priority. Stuff that is blacklisted on the chest will take the low priority route into the trash can.

 

Any tutorial for that?

 

Thank you very much for the fast reply.

[Curunir]

The mod authors have this on Itemducts. The sub-page for the Pneumatic Servo is still empty.

You need to right-click on a pipe head with a Servo in hand, which will install it there. Only then you will have access to the full width of features of the Itemduct at that point. Needs to be done separately with each duct-containing block that you need to configure. To open the config window, you need to right-click the duct with an empty hand, i.e. empty hotbar slot.

[redsector]

Here you go. Sorry that I didn't take the time to format it properly, but it's not exactly rocket science anyway.

 

- set up your destination tesseract, diamond chest and garbage disposal (I used a Thermal Expansion Nullifier, recipe can be looked up in NEI. Trash Can from Extra Utilities also works.) like this:

 

 

- craft two Pneumatic Servos (2 iron ingots, 2 glass, 1 redstone in a cross pattern, look up the recipe in NEI)

- hold the servos in your hand and right-click them onto the connections leading into the chest and nullifier (the blue triangle thingies on the itemducts). You should get a system message that "The pneumatic servo has been installed" or something like that. You now have access to the advanced control options for that connection.

- craft a Crescent Hammer, if you haven't already. This tool is used a LOT with Thermal Expansion stuff, so you'll need one anyway sooner or later.

- give the piece of itemduct in front of the connection to the nullifier a right-click whack with the hammer. It should turn red and read "dense", which means low priority connection. (Note that hitting the connection itself switches it between output (red) and input (blue) so make sure to hit the duct.)

 

 

- right click the nullifier to bring up its configuration GUI, switch to the green tab and set whatever side you put the itemduct on as input by clicking on the respective icon. In this case, it's the left side, and the input is represented by the blue rectangle (available sides are top, left, right, bottom - and back, which is the one in the lower right. Front cannot be connected.).

 

 

- right-click the connection to the diamond chest with an empty hand to bring up the configuration GUI for the connection. Put everything you consider trash (for example, cobblestone and dirt) into the 3x3 grid and set the rest of the GUI like in the following picture. Redstone control disabled means that the connection is always active, independent of any redstone signals provided. Note the black warning sign to the right of the grid, meaning that this connection blacklists whatever you put into the grid, i. e. it won't accept those items - or, in other words, it will accept everything except those items. (You can click the warning sign to switch it to whitelist mode, which would make the connection accept only the items in the grid and nothing else. We're not doing this right now, so be sure to leave it in blacklist mode. Ignore the other three buttons, we don't need them for this simple setup.).

 

 

 

Result: the duct leading into the chest is the high priority route because we set the one into the nullifier to low priority ("dense", red). This means that everything coming from the tesseract will try to take the route into the chest first. However, cobble and dirt are blacklisted for this connection, leaving them no choice but to take the low priority route into the garbage disposal.

Edited September 1, 2014 by redsector

[Peterotul]

Thank you very much guys, very useful.