Medieval Engineers

Medieval Engineers

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Type: Mod
Mod category: block, script
Version: 0.7
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11 Sep, 2020 @ 5:31pm
12 Jul @ 2:22am
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Conveyors and Pipes

Description
This mod allows you to move items around and automate many things.

Currently you have the regular conveyor block which moves any item that gets added to it forward.
And the puller conveyor block that pulls an item from the inventory it is attached to and then moves it forward.

Size variants: Size 3 and 2 and lengths 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 and a corner block

You have the metal and wood variants. Wood moves items slower.

There is a button for disabling the conveyor. And button(s) for picking the source/destination inventory if the block has multiple.
The puller conveyor can also filter items. Place an item in its inventory and press the middle button to add it to its filter.

If you attach the conveyors to multiple inventory blocks it will take or send it from/to the blocks in sequence.

Have fun automating ME (finally). Let me know if there are any special blocks you need or any problems with the mod.

This mod works great with the refinery. You can automate the whole process.

Pipe update:

This mod now contains a fluid system used by other mods. Pipes are used to move around fluids and can be stored in many variants of fluid tanks.
Use the jerrycan to look at inventory contents.
Read descriptions of the new blocks and tools to find out how to use them.
Production of fluids is mostly done in the refineries (fluid-fluid and solid-fluid)

Other things added:
-diving suit
-hydrogen balloons
117 Comments
peaceman  [author] 6 Mar @ 1:58pm 
The issue should be fixed now. It was just a stupid bug in the code where it cycled through targets twice and as it only has 2 inventories you kept seeing the same inventory
bozebilly 6 Mar @ 5:59am 
Nice. That means i'm not crazy lol.
And I get that about the fuel hoses. T'was more of a tongue-in-cheek mention as i keep forgetting the static grid block exists lol.
Thanks for looking into it, much appreciated especially in this era of ME.
Will report back should I find any more obscure problems :steamthumbsup:
peaceman  [author] 5 Mar @ 5:12pm 
I was able to replicate your issue. The first time I was able to switch to it but after placing a new valve I now cannot anymore. I will see if I can fix it.
Using a normal pipe after the valve causes no issues.
The fuel hoses are designed to be used for vehicle to vehicle transfers. They break easily to prevent everyone using hoses instead of pipes.
bozebilly 5 Mar @ 11:59am 
Setup for the valve was essentially:
Tank->Valve->Pipeline->(Straight)Valve (the one with issues, goes directly into)->(Medium)decompressor->Valve->balloon

Regarding The losses and tank setup, my airship basically has 6 compressed hydrogen tanks to fill my balloon. I also limited the compressor gas flow rate to a similar number (600 in my case) and noticed significant decrease in lost gas, but still some. which i think either gets lost during decompression along the way from the multiple tanks or just purely from the compressor. I haven't noticed any losses generally speaking pumping into tanks, even if the order it fills tanks may be weird sometimes.
The lack of bidirectional flow, the fuel hoses annoyingly breaking and this are the only issues i ever had with this mod lol. And this only came to light to me after attempting an airship for the first time in years.
peaceman  [author] 5 Mar @ 9:38am 
And I just decompressed into a balloon and then compressed back into the tank without losing anything. Maybe your hydrogen is flowing into other tanks?
peaceman  [author] 5 Mar @ 9:36am 
I just tried a simple setup Tank -> valve -> decompressor -> valve -> Balloon
And the valves found the decompressor without issue.
What valve did you use? And anything other that could be special about your setup? You used the small or the medium decompressor?
Also I noticed that when pumping into the compressor I need to set my flow rate to under 900L/min for it to work. This was an issue before that I fixed but maybe I only fixed it for output and not input.
bozebilly 1 Mar @ 8:17pm 
The valve, connected directly to a decompressor to pump compressed hydrogen into it, can not find the compressed hydrogen input tank.

Extra note, I seem to be losing hydrogen gas when compressing it back into liquid.
Like, i pump 5000L from storage into a balloon, but when i pump it all out again I lose about 70%
bozebilly 1 Mar @ 8:06pm 
Read my comment again please.
peaceman  [author] 28 Feb @ 1:11pm 
The decompressor is like a crafting block. You need to pump into it and pull out of it with a valve
bozebilly 28 Feb @ 8:52am 
Forgot to add, normal pipes have no issue finding target.