Automated replenishment system in which a lorry is dispatched as soon as a chest is empty. The trolley is automatically filled to a set level and then returns to the empty chest.
The idea came about when I wanted to fully automate an industrial furnace (that's why there's a furnace in the screenshots - it's just for illustration and not a necessary part of the system). I wanted to set it up so that the kiln is permanently supplied with coal without my intervention. The coal enters the furnace via a chest. As long as it has items, the chest sends out a signal, which I invert and use to turn on the drive rails on the furnace when the chest is empty. The lorry then moves to the filler, where it is stopped by a piston and filled from the coal storage chest. This is done via the first sensor rail, the signal of which is transmitted to a storage cell when the trolley passes over it. This keeps the piston permanently extended. The piston is necessary because a sensor rail is needed to read out the filling level of the trolley - but a drive rail would be needed to move the trolley. So the trolley is stopped by the piston above the second sensor rail on the slope. The filling level of the trolley is read out via this sensor rail and a comparator connected to it and compared with the filling level of the comparison trolley. In this way it can be set how many items the trolley should be filled with. If the fill level of the trolley and the comparison chest is the same, the comparator transmits the signal, which resets the storage cell and retracts the piston - the trolley follows gravity down the slope and reaches the chest at the furnace again, where it delivers the supplies and waits until the chest is empty again.
Have fun rebuilding it!
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soon takes on the form of industrial-craft 😀
Do I see that correctly, it's only about getting coal into the chest? You still have to put coal into a chest, so why not directly into the one above the stove? It's just unnecessary work to build up the track.
You could "pre-switch" an item sorter and then you just throw all the products from your mine into a box.
Since my item sorter automatically transports the fuel into the kiln and picks it up again from there, an automatic refilling of the coal is only logical. Apart from that, the filling of the kiln - as I wrote - was only my personal initial idea and serves only as an illustration. With a little imagination, the system can certainly be used in other ways.
yes, the idea with the sorter in front is good ... but is unfortunately totally costly to build it in the survival after ...
Even if it looks messy, it's good. Fulfills its purpose and has been missing with us.