Would it be OK (edit: for me to) make a variation of a wooden pipe that has an integrated redstone engine and redstone torch?
So you can just place it, and it extracts one item per second (same as a warmed up redstone engine). Autarchic gates (edit: or engines) would be required to extract any faster.

Isn't that adding redundancy? As it stands now the farther you progress in the Tech tree not only increases speed but also increases compactness.

Yeah, I can't see the point.

The point is convenience. Has nobody from BC noticed how many people
absolutely hate wooden pipes, and love auto-ejecting machines and hoppers?

It's only somewhat less bad if you pre-craft a stack of redstone engines
and torches.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:58 PM, CovertJaguar [email protected]:

Yeah, I can't see the point.

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Autarchic gates. Use them. Not throwing away a defining BC mechanic just because "many people" (I'll dispute that) want stuff to be more auto-magical.

Autarchic gates are great, however they are very high up in Buildcraft's tech tree.

You're right about this being a defining BC mechanic though... changing it could drastically change the way the mod initally "feels", which is bad.