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Quoted from "Nik"

1. Whats the best way to transfer the resources from quarries into my factories redpower tubing system? I've tried running the buildcraft tubes into a series of chests and using the retriever, but that has 2 problems. First it ignores some of the chests and second it tends to focus on the items popping up in the top left corner (least thats what happens when using a single chest). The latter becomes a big problem when it stops grabbing stacks and just does single items half the time.

Quoted from "Nik"

2. What would be a simple way to split some items up? For example sending half the stone to the output chests and the other half is processed.

Quoted from "Nik"

3. Should I be using overclockers or instead increase the number of machines? I was using 4 quarries in my creative game and it easily out paced my factories ability to process all the materials. I've heard that having too many machines together can create a ton of lag. Also maybe the number of overcloakers needed would push the power requirements sky high.

Quoted from "Nik"

1. Whats the best way to transfer the resources from quarries into my factories redpower tubing system? I've tried running the buildcraft tubes into a series of chests and using the retriever, but that has 2 problems. First it ignores some of the chests and second it tends to focus on the items popping up in the top left corner (least thats what happens when using a single chest). The latter becomes a big problem when it stops grabbing stacks and just does single items half the time.

Quoted from "Nik"

2. What would be a simple way to split some items up? For example sending half the stone to the output chests and the other half is processed.

Quoted from "Nik"

3. Should I be using overclockers or instead increase the number of machines? I was using 4 quarries in my creative game and it easily out paced my factories ability to process all the materials. I've heard that having too many machines together can create a ton of lag. Also maybe the number of overcloakers needed would push the power requirements sky high.

Quoted from "Nik"

Thanks GregoriusT, your thread in the tutorials is amazing btw.

Quoted from "GregoriusT"

More Machines. The Lag produced by them, is only from the Sound they make, so you can just decrease the maximum amount of IC²-Soundsources in the Configfile for no Lag.

What would be a decent level to set it to to remove lag but still hear them properly?

Quoted from "Nik"

Though most of the resources that got fed into factories tube system were mainly single items or tiny stacks. Wouldn't this possibly cause increased lag with so many entities going through the tubes? In which case is there a easy way to get them to form full stacks?

Quoted from "immibis"

The Buffer in TubeStuff was designed for things like this. Send items in one side via pipes, put a filter on another side, and it'll pulse the filter to extract items, while also combining stacks to reduce lag.

Quoted from "GregoriusT"

Single Items are not really laggy.

The GregTower2 has sometimes hundreds of single Items and small Stacks traversing through a huge Tubesystem without any Lagincrease. I was also able to decrease the Pathfinding (and increase the Overviewability), using colored Tubes and colorcoded Items in the whole System.

Quoted from "Ook"

Similar here. in the game with Aether (1.9 pr2) I couldn't use logistics pipes so I reverted to the other way of sorting stuff. (some effort, a lot of paint cans and more effort stuffing it all behind walls) When the frame quarry really got going I had tons of stuff traveling through two different tube networks. (one on the frame head, one in my base) and didn't really get any lag.

Quoted from "Nik"

Got another question for you lot! connecting the relays to the buildcraft pipes worked great and I increased my number of machines too (no noticeable lag increase either).

Though most of the resources that got fed into factories tube system were mainly single items or tiny stacks. Wouldn't this possibly cause increased lag with so many entities going through the tubes? In which case is there a easy way to get them to form full stacks?

Quoted from "Gaxx"

i never noticed much lag with the tubesystem.

Quoted from "GregoriusT"

Quoted from "Gaxx"

i never noticed much lag with the tubesystem.

Because you never tried that old BC-trick (to store infinite Items) with the Tubes. I disrecommend any use of Tubes as infinite Storage. (happened to me accidently with my Sortingsystem yesterday)