[Suggestion] Automatic Rubber Extraction

1st Official Post

    Attach the new object to the rubber "outlet" on the side of a rubber tree and it will harvest the rubber whenever it it respawns. Right click to access it and take the Resin out. Requires power.


    If the "harvest when it respawns" thing is too hard, it could just produce Resin on a timer that is equal to the respawn of normal resin outlets.


    Reason is that if I'm at a point where I have all this high-tech automated machinery, automatic mining machines, etc. with buildcraft pipes doing all the work for me, I still have to go around with a bunch of wooden treetaps and manually collect a bunch of rubber.

    I think it might be a little unbalanced if one could collect the full amount of resin each time the spot respawns. Perhaps 1 resin each cycle would be better.


    I notice this is the second thread where you talk about wooden treetaps. Have you heard of the More TreeTapsadd-on? It adds iron treetaps and even rechargable electric treetaps.

    Seems to be a rather popular idea. (Second or Third thread revolving around the same thing.)


    Even if it was to only make/get/pull/extract 1-3 per Minecraft day, it would still add up fairly fast. Place against the tappable area and put a chest next to it so the Resin doesn't just spray out.


    Al hasn't said anything for or against the idea, so who knows. It is one of the few things you can't automate.

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    No, no no. Alblaka, don't waste your time catering to these N00bs. Both Buildcraft OR Redstone Power separately let you totally automate rubber production with a slightly complex mechanism.


    For a Buildcraft only mechanism : set up a tree farm with the rubber saplings planted automatically by a builder. After a timer expires (which would ideally be a redstone power one but you could use 10,000 repeaters I suppose) have the builder switch templates (with a wooden pipe to do this automatically, though a RP2 filter works better) to a clear template. The clear template removes all the trees, obsidian pipes suck them up, and diamond pipes redirect the wood the extractors. The rubber gets pumped out of the extractors and sent to a chest. Switch templates to a build template, and replant.


    With RedPower 2 : use a deployer, bonemeal, blockbreakers, and various timers to auto use the bonemeal on a sapling, followed by breaking the wood from the tree with the block breakers, and finally replant by having the deployer use saplings on the ground. The wood goes to an extractor.


    I have a hybrid mechanism that uses stuff from both buildcraft and redstone power, and I have entire chests stuffed with rubber.

    Because we ALL use ALL three mods. Totally.


    And that's a lot of work (diamond pipes, especially) for just a simple Sticky Resin collector.

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