New redstone-diamond pipe
schloops1 opened this issue ยท 5 comments
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Using Wincraft/Opencomputers/Project Red, I have a good control of the state of wires and can easily extract precise resources from chests. But when I want to redirect some of them to subsystems it requires big, complex piles of iron and diamond pipes and it's painful to make and messy and prone to bugs.
Describe the solution you'd like
A redstone-diamond pipe that would connect to a cable (16 colors) that would control which (0 to 16) of 16 resources would be diverted to another exit of the pipe. It would be small, clean, less prone to bugs and way less painful and would allow for a great use of Buildcraft pipes.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Piles of Iron and diamond pipes and well, about all other mods with pipes.
Ideally, back ported to 1.7.10 and 1.12.2 but even if not, it would be a great addition to Buildcraft.
Thanks for your work on a great mod!
thx @gatoborrachon :)
Both the filtered buffer and the Emzuli extraction pipe are still present in 1.12 BuildCraft, and I've got no reason to want to remove either of them. (Although the Emzuli pipe will probably be renamed in the future since BC no longer uses emeralds).
If you're using 1.12.2 then there's some documentation for the Emzuli pipe in the guide book, as of 7.99.24.8.
As for the suggestion, I'm not too sure if it's necessary - although I am interested in how well the Emzuli pipe performs since it sounds like you haven't tried that?
Thanks to both of you for your answers :).
Emzuli is a great pipe that goes well in the gate ecology but I think what I was proposing would be easier to use, allow for smaller contraptions and would scale up better for complex systems controlled by signals. It would allow for very clean and efficient pipe circuits I think. If I didn't convince you, no problem... just thought I'd have a try because it's something I've always missed.
There should be one extraction pipe that does this, but only for 4 different items. One for each wire. I don't remember the name, been so long since I made it. I made the Filtered buffer and the extraction pipe to solve some of the problem you describe. They might have been removed again though.