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Turtle refueling using iron (buildcraft) lava tank or ender tank

Started by Somin, 04 June 2013 - 10:49 PM
Somin #1
Posted 05 June 2013 - 12:49 AM
I have a lot of lava in a lava tank, and I am familiar with ender tanks, I have a few built.. I would like my turtle to be able to refuel using the tank and a peripheral but I'm not sure how to do it or what peripherals or api calls might be helpful. I wonder if someone can point me into the right direction for this.. Right now I have a liquid transposer putting buckets of lava into a chest for me, and I refuel off that but it only does 16k at a time and it takes a long time. I would like to type one command 'refuel' and have it fill up using an adjacent tank.
Lyqyd #2
Posted 05 June 2013 - 12:50 PM
Split into new topic.
Somin #3
Posted 06 June 2013 - 03:08 AM
I have a tank turtle built now, but I've tried a lot of things that are not yielding results.

I placed the turtle on an iron tank Valve at the top of my tank.. did m = peripheral.wrap("right") (the tank is on the right off my turtle, the pickaxe is on the left) and then m.suckDown() and the result i get is "0"

I tried with the turtle connected to an iron tank valve on the side of my tank and that also did not work.

then i tried with the turtle attached to a liquiduct coming out of the tank and attached to the turtle, but also no results..

Can anyone point me to how the turtle / iron tank should be configured in space, and how to 'connect' ?

I expect once i get some lava coming in, i will do a loop with suckUp/Down(), pack(), refuel() .
Somin #4
Posted 06 June 2013 - 03:22 AM
Aha~ Finally got it working.. I had to place the turtle under the BC tank.. The side don't work cause we need to do suckUp or suckDown … and the top doesn't work cause I think BC tanks don't pump out of the top.. so that left only the bottom.
Somin #5
Posted 06 June 2013 - 03:26 AM
w000t~ Now I have it getting refueled from a bc pipe on the side of the tank. Maybe liquiducts don't work (even with a rs signal) but the wooden liquid transport pipe with a redstone engine seems to be pumping it pretty good~~
Somin #6
Posted 06 June 2013 - 03:36 AM
Okay, got it all setup with the liquiduct now, just needed to hit it with the wrench to set it to output mode. I'm all good. Feel free to delete / remove this topic, or keep it.. To summarize:

The turtle is able to take in lava connected to an iron tank valve at the bottom of the tank, or connected to any BC pipe or liquiduct pipe that is outputting lava from the tank