Minecraft (Buildcraft) - Chest Overflow Protection

Using carefully placed Vacuum tubes, it is possible to catch items that are dropped by pipes due to their destination being full... then re-direct said items to another chest.

This is useful for setting up a large Quarry, linking it to a single chest, and using vacuum tubes to catch the excess to fill up even more chests... preventing loss of items while you're busy with other things.

Since the items are falling directly onto the vacuum pipe... no power for the vacuum is required. Iron pipes can be used to minimize the space the system takes up... so long as you make sure you align them properly.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Minecraft
• buildcraft
• quarry
• chest
• pipe
• vacuum
• overflow
• excess
• mining
• loot
• waste
• loss
• automatic
• automated
• catch

[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.

[JasonPayne607]

Does it support SMP?

[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.

[timlyo]

@JasonPayne607 only some servers do

[ThePastaManCan]

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

[camyrocksthehouse]

@beowulf500ad Like the idea make a Tutorial ?

[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.

[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...

[vulpes133]

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