Minecraft (Buildcraft) - Chest Overflow Protection

[ThePastaManCan]

Im Off For A Poo! Ill be Back In Two.

[beowulf500ad]

I just send the items through a loop doing something similar...when they hit a full chest, they fall on an obsidian pipe, which takes them back to their original chest. They'll just loop around until the chest is no longer full and then they continue on their way. In order to conserve room I also have some automatic crafting tables compress iron and gold into blocks.

[camyrocksthehouse]

@beowulf500ad Like the idea make a Tutorial ?

[gloverelaxis]

On a smaller scale, you can always just chuck a wooden pressure plate underneath the pipe that feeds the chest, so that when it overflows it hits the plate and activates a signal that turns off the quarry/mining well.

[MelonsAreHere]

@MineCraftMrMoo To have things come out of chests you need to attach a wooden pipe and have a redstone engine in contact with it (turned on) and the items will be pumped out.

[MineCraftMrMoo]

how do i get things out of the chest with pipes do i need a vacume pipe?

[yancarloramsey]

Very nice design. I've always been fond of using iron pipes to make things compact, myself. I just wish you could make them not show connections between two iron pipes where neither of them is directed toward the other...

[JasonPayne607]

Doesn't need to be this complicated anymore now that obsidian pipes don't connect to one another. Just dig a long 3x3 column down into the ground, alternate a chest on each side like a zipper, and put obsidian piping straight down the middle.

[vulpes133]

thanks for this. It sure helps out a lot when I have my large quarry's working all at once overnight.

[skylar15123]

Good....good.....good

[JasonPayne607]

Does it support SMP?

[timlyo]

@JasonPayne607 only some servers do

[McGreed]

I can recommend that you use the Insertion Pipe mod instead, can make it a lot more compact. :) Check out the video: hnXyqw4wgpk

[MrMinecraftBoyz]

@JasonPayne607 What is this mod and are you making more videos? Will it have commentary?

[MrMinecraftBoyz]

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[MrMinecraftBoyz]

:)!

[MrMinecraftBoyz]

Can you make a tutorial for that but nice job

[JasonPayne607]

@MrMinecraftBoyz You don't need a tutorial :P It's easy. Doesn't have to be as compact as this but basically have 3 pipelines. the first ends at the first chest. If it's full, the pipe will drop the item which will fall into a vacuum tube attached to the second pipeline. From there, it goes to the second chest. Repeat as needed.