I’ve been taking a look at this thread, trying to replicate it since I am currently trying to make a ton of ultimet, but I keep running into the problem of my crucible being jammed to the max, even though I have my hoppers set to only emit stacksize 1,1,2,5 respectfully to the ratio of the recipe. Does anyone have an auto setup I could take a look at? Or some words of advice, monke brain has been at it longer than it should.
Don’t rely on Hoppers for this one, because the Crucible instantly converts everything inside of itself to something that is not an ItemStack anymore.
I would recommend using Redstone (at the Hopper) and a Button or Weight-O-Meter to only insert when the Crucible is ready for new content.
I had originally tried to use a central pipe, shutter covers, a redstone controller, and then the hoppers connected to the shutters with a weight-o-meter setting off a signal when the crucible is empty, I think the problem I ran into is that the redstone signal is not quick enough, and it gobbles up too much because of a slowness or something I don’t know.
Sounds right.
Did you set single items in the hoppers, and ensure that the mass storage wasn’t set to push into the hopper?
I think it’s a really creative solution to use a single pipe and transmit redstone through it’s faces. I hope you get it working.
By single pipe, do you mean a smaller one?
Replace the Central Pipe with a 5 Slot Hopper, that will fix a lot.
No, the huge pipe was fine. I just thought it was neat because it replaced tons of other redstone cabling. That’s cool if you get it working!
I’d made a redstone hopper based smelter before, and it felt… really clunky.
That’s why I always do a Railcraft based one. I’ve found nothing more elegant.