Support Request: Miner+Pump, Pump does not use consume Empty Cells

NoneSuch · Nov 9th 2011

Searched the forums, couldn't find anything quite like the issue I'm having.

Playing on an SMP server. The standalone pump works fine with water; fills cells and pops 'em out. But when I try using the pump with the miner, the pump fills and then nothing happens. I stick the empty cells in the top slot and the pump just stays filled while the cells sit there. I remove the pump, replace it, then the miner is able to continue mining down but I lose the lava/water that was being stored in the pump. Suggestions?

RawCode · Nov 9th 2011

still bugged\unfixed and two pump need to work.

MJEvans · Nov 10th 2011

Odd, I didn't have that issue. I've seen pumps spit out both lava cells in to the area next to the pump and fill attached chests. Of course I only use the pump in conjunction with the miner...

HikariYamato · Jun 29th 2012

I've had similar problems as well when working with conjunction with miners. So, I decided to test it out with a new flat world. Here are the screenshots that I took. Hopefully this well help with solving the problem, and if anyone needs clarification, I'll do that to the best of my abilities. Because I really am sick of having to break then re-install every time.

This is where I had set everything up and started working. It dug 2 water blocks down before it hit bedrock, so the miner stopped. This one here is of the pump. See how there is one cell missing from the stack of 64? this is where it went. But what I wanted to know was why it wasn't digging through water like it was with lava. So, I had set up another one where it was ONLY water, 3 blocks down from below the pump, and a constant water source. You can see that here. However, it wasn't working, just like with the one by the miner. It would fill up, and stop working. I then noticed that the lava had only one layer before it continued on with other items. So, I decided to replicate that with my water like so. When I did that, lo and behold! The pump works perfectly, spewing out water cells. when I took out that lone dirt block like so, it stopped working again. I tried the same thing with lava, but because the way lava works, it didn't work as well as I had hoped...

So.... is there any way to get around this? or is this just something that'll never get fixed?

And I'm sorry if I necro'd this thread, but I've looked EVERYWHERE on the net, and this is the closest thing to my current problem... everywhere else it said that they were also using buildcraft pumps/pipes, and my comp couldn't handle both buildcraft and IC2.

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