cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41852574
I'm currently playing through Stoneblock 4, and as I hadn't used the Post-Production yet, I decided to try to use Create in place of AE2 for storage/autocrafting. This presents some obstacles, of course. An obvious one is the Energizing Orb from Powah.
It did end up being fairly simple, but since the solution wasn't immediately obvious I googled to see if anybody had already done this. I quickly found this video with a promising title. Watching revealed a couple obvious reasons that setup wouldn't work for me (or likely most) though.
- It only makes energized steel, requiring a new orb (difficult to make early in sb4) and custom setup PER RECIPE
- It relies on timing (no thanks)
So I had a stab at it myself. The intake frogport (Energizer) is sitting on an inventory access port (no packager) just to extend that bit of the vault. That vault needs to receive packages, not items.
Then, attach a re-packager to that intake vault, place a lever on the back (or top) of the re-packager, and activate the lever so that the re-packager is always powered. Below the re-packager, place a SMART chute. It needs to be lockable, which a regular chute is not.
Place a chute (can be regular or smart) two blocks below and one block in front of the smart chute. Place the orb on top of the bottom chute. Attach a packager to the side of the orb beneath the top (smart) chute. So far, the entire recipe will be inserted into the orb simultaneously. Now to keep anything else from going in while something is in process. Attach a threshold switch to the top of the orb, and rotate it so that one of the 2 output sides is facing the smart chute (the other will be facing away from it).
Now set the threshold switch to output a signal if there's ANYTHING in the orb (minimum item count 1)
Now just get your rods set up and powered per usual, and set any gauges to send the ingredients to whatever you named your input frogport.
