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Foreword
MEKANISM (MEK), as a classic Minecraft module, has developed for 9 years from Minecraft 1.7.10 to 1.12.1 now.In this module, plastic is a slightly chicken but inevitable item: Most of the time, plastic is just a good -looking decorative block.Materials.
Although the function of plastic is so limited, its production is not simple: the machine that produces plastic needs to use items, liquid, gas as input at the same time, and produce gas items.You need a branch line to match.These all lead to the automation of plastic production, and there are many negative evaluations in the MC Encyclopedia community.
This article is based on Minecraft 1.7.10 MEKANISM, combined with old -fashioned modules such as Applied Energistics2 (AE2), BuildCraft (BC), and designed a plastic production line occupying only 4x4x4, while taking into account the area of the area, it also achieved automatic intermediate products automatic.Pingping and factories scalability.The main contributions of this article are as follows:
1. In the form of pictures, strive to clearly show the construction process of the factory, provide the design process ideas, and provide ideas for the relevant work set up by subsequent recurrence factories;
2. Give a flat ratio of 3 steps of the plastic production line;
3. It demonstrates the minimum limit of the production line compression and shows the method to reach the limit.
The effect of this work is shown in the figure below.
Gaming environment and module requirements
This tutorial is based on Minecraft 1.7.10.Forge version: Forge 10.13.4.1614-1.7.10.
Module name
Module version
MC encyclopedia link
The role in this design
mekanism
1.7.10-9.1.0.281
https://www.mcmod.cn/class/187.html
core.Provided related machines, liquids, gas pipelines, and pumping machines related to plastic production
Applied Energistics 2
RV2-Stable-10
https://www.mcmod.cn/class/260.html
Provides the concept of the network, which is convenient for machine drawing, supplied items, and the storage mechanism of items
Extra Cells 2
2.3.14
https://www.mcmod.cn/class/174.html
AE2's affiliated module provides gas extraction and storage mechanism
Buildcraft
7.1.14
https://www.mcmod.cn/class/4.html
There is a clay pipeline that can ensure that the fluid is prioritized to the container connected
BUILDCRAFT and Extra Cells 2 support versions of Minecraft1.12, so this tutorial may not fully adapt to higher versions of players; but if there is a new version of Minecraft module with similar functions, you can also get inspiration from this tutorial.
Production line: Basic knowledge and data
This part explains the data of the PRC and related formulas.If you are familiar with this part, you just want to know how to reduce to 4X4X4, you can jump to the compression solution: design ideas and practice.
In Mekansim, the production of plastics requires a machine called a pressure reaction room, and is also called PRC:
The internal GUI is shown in the figure below.Among them, the yellow, red, and red red on the left are the input box of the machine, which are used in the input liquid, gas, and items; the two blue boxes on the right are the product, and all PRCs will produce items and gas at the same time.
We can find that if you want a PRC to work, we need to insert 6 noodles: enter three noodles, output two faces, and one face for supply energy.Because of this, it is difficult to build a beautiful production line for the PRC.
After understanding the PRC, we look at the 3 synthetic formulas it supports, that is, the production process of plastic:
Formula 1
Formula 2
Formula 3
In Formula 1, transform biofuels (crushed most of the crops) into plastic substrates and ethylene (gas) (gas), and use water and hydrogen; formula 2 input the just obtained substrate and ethyleneHDPE, it can be converted into plastic products after subsequent synthesis.Formula 2 generates by -product oxygen (of course less than input).
What does the formula 3 do?The reason is that there will be more ethylene produced in Formula 1, and Formula 2 will be rich after conversion.Therefore, after the liquefaction of these excess ethylene, and Shuitong into Formula 3 for proliferation substrates.This process will also produce by -product oxygen.Specifically, the specific input and output data of the three machines are as follows (only liquid and gas): formula
Input liquid
Input gas
Output gas
1
Water, 10MB
Hydrogen, 100
Ethylene, 100
2
Liquid ethylene, 50MB
Oxygen, 10
Oxygen, 5
3
Water, 200MB
Ethylene, 100
Oxygen, 10
In the conversion of gas liquid, 1000MB of liquid and 1000 gas are equal.It can be seen that when the 1 -unit substrate produced by the formula 1 is consumed by Formula 2, it will be rich in ethylene of 50 units.Only when the proportion of the three formula executes is 9: 16: 1, it can just consume all substrates and ethylene.
In addition to the three PRCs, the following machines also need to be followed:
Equipment name
picture
use
Block character
Electrolytic separator
Enter water, electrolyte generate hydrogen and oxygen,
Hydrogen supply formula 1
You can only output hydrogen from the left,
Oxygen on the right.
Retoning air fluid converter
Convert the gaseous ethylene to liquid, or in turn.
You can only enter the output gas on the left,
Enter output liquid on the right.
Electric pump
Generate water, supply formula 1. Formula 2 and electrolytic separation machine
You can only enter energy on the back and output liquid on the upper side.
Production line: Practical operation
Let's set up an unprepared assembly line to show the logic of the entire assembly line and introduce the use of related equipment.
In the order, let's let the first PRC work first:
In order to facilitate the display, all machines are omitted by the connection of the wire supply cable to supply internal power supply with IC2's debugging equipment.Pump pump water, supply the right PRC machine, and provide the top electrolytic separation machine at the same time. The electrolytic water generates hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is exported from the right duct to the supply PRC;Ethylene (gas) (gas) on the right side of the PRC machine, and the lower side output substrate.The placement of the machine is as follows:
1. Configuration of the PRC input output surface: To achieve the input and output in the figure above, you need to make such a configuration in the PRC machine:
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
In Figure 1, first select the button circled up in the upper left corner to enter the side configuration of the machine, and then you will see the interface similar to Figure 2, which shows that you have entered the side configuration of the item.Note that there should be 4 buttons outside the main interface. Which button do you click on which type of input and output corresponds to the corresponding configuration. You can only see that 3 is because you are currently in the object configuration interface, so the corresponding button is hidden.Combined with Figure 2 and Figure 3, the four buttons are configured with items, energy, liquid, and gas respectively.
The position of the 6 grids in the main interface corresponds to the 6 sides of the machine; the color corresponds to the color in Figure 1: not to the color of the liquid slot and the item slot?
Combined with the construction map, we hope that the items will enter the red box position from the back side of the machine to the red box position in Figure 1, and output the items of the items at the blue frame from the lower side of the machine. ThereforeBlue (the lower left corner of the red is the back of the machine; it is better to understand other positions).In addition, we have to turn on the ejection, which means that as long as the situation allows, the machine will automatically output the product without manual extraction.
We use the same logic as the input and output configuration interface of the gas, as shown in Figure 3.
Note that there is no liquid output of the PRC.So you can mark all planes in the liquid interface, and the energy is the same (that's the case by default).
2. Different from the PRC, the electrolytic separation machine cannot configure the output surface: it will definitely output hydrogen on the left side of the machine and output oxygen (liquid and energy can be arbitrarily) on the right. ThereforeSeparator.
The second machine is made by the method:
First of all, we will connect the first PRC (device 1) to the air -liquid converter output by the output, and input the output liquid ethylene from the second PRC (device 2).In addition, the substrate required for Equipment 2 is entered from the rear, and the required oxygen can just use the by -product of an electrolytic separator.
Before the access device 3, there is a small problem that we need to think: We hope that Equipment 3 processing equipment 2 is not used up, so it is necessary to give priority to supply equipment 2, and the storage tank of equipment 2 is full of re -supply equipment 3.But Mek's pipelines are average allocated gas.To this end, we can use the clay fluid pipeline in Buildcraft: it will give liquid priority to the machine connected by it, and then provide other pipelines.The final design is as shown below:
We replaced the output part of the rotary gas liquid converter on the left to the BC pipeline.First of all, the wood fluid pipeline is required as the beginning of the liquid extraction, and then the clay flow pipe is connected to the tube. The bending circle can be used with rough stones, stones, and quartz fluid pipes. I use quartz here.The BC's pipeline cannot automatically extract the liquid. The door that is installed with an autocratic pulse extension is installed on the wooden pipes. The trigger logic is set to: The meaning is that as long as there is no redstone signal, the pulse is always sent (ie extracting liquid).Because Equipment 3 requires ethylene gases, here you need to re -pass the gas liquid converter, put it on the current perspective, and click the "T" in the upper left corner to convert it into gasification mode.In addition, the input water (from the pump) above the equipment 3, the backward input substrate (from the equipment 1), the output items and gases below and right, respectively.Note that MEK's mechanical pipeline and BC's liquid pipelines are interoperable. During the construction, it is far away to avoid streaming of water pipes and liquid ethylene pipes.
The connections of the three machines are all done.In addition, it should be noted that the operating speed of equipment 2 must be higher than device 1 (you can upgrade the speed upgrade to the equipment 2), otherwise the excess ethylene gas will cause the substrate accumulation of the equipment 3.
The construction of the above production line roughly illustrates how to produce PRC, but in addition to the large space, there is a relatively large problem: the management of products and raw materials.Obviously, the production line above does not treat the oxygen generated by the equipment 2 or 3.; the substrate generated by the equipment 3 is not put into production.Pure Mek may be solved, but we have better solutions: AE2+Extracells2.
The use of AE2 can refer to other tutorials in the MC encyclopedia; Extracells expands AE2 with liquid, gas storage and IO capabilities.The transformed production line below shows:
Uh, okay, it's so abstract. In addition to seeing the AE cable connecting some devices, you can't see the details!I take the equipment here for 2 examples, other machines are similar ideas.I assume that you have understood the concepts and usage methods of channels, ME controllers, ME drives, and storage components.
The ME network wiring taken by Device 2 alone is as shown below:
Positive view
Left rear view
First look at the positive view. The interfaces above, right, and below are: ME gas output bus, ME gas input bus, ME input bus (input item), and the back of the ME output bus.Note that in the current context, the input and output are relative to the network: If you want to input gas for the PRC machine, it is equivalent to the output for the network, so you need to use ME gas output bus.Here, the 4 interfaces are input or output, an item or the gas, and the configuration is the same when the configuration and the use of a pipe.
Different from the input bus, the output bus requires additional configuration.For ME (items) output bus, you need to use the items you want to output in the GUI. The input item of Equipment 2 is a substrate, so you need to mark it as:
You also need to mark oxygen for ME gas output bus.In addition to the tools that comes with Extracells, you can also use MEK's drip to absorb oxygen, click the GUI mark of the ME gas output bus, as shown in the figure (the drop in the lower right corner is not part of the GUI):
(Click the gas or liquid groove in the PRC with a drip meter to absorb up to 1,000 units of fluid, shift+right -click to clear the dripper.
After the mark, the device 2 is configured.Next, you also need to mark the device in turn 1. Equipment 2 and the interface of the electrolytic separation machine, specific:
equipment
statistics
Remark
Equipment 1
2 interface: object input and output
Tag: biological fuel
Equipment 2
4 interface: fluid input output, gas input output
Mark: substrate, oxygen
Equipment 3
3 Interface: Item input and output, gas input
Mark: substrate
Electrolytic separator
1 interface: gas input
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In this way, it can be uniformly managed by the products and oxygen of the entire production line, and it can be made in an appropriate location.In addition, the input interface of AE is actively extracted, and the PRC can run normally without the ejection.
I believe that through the chapters above, you have a general understanding of the logic of the production line; below we consider how to reduce this production line.In this process, we need to consider the relative position between machines, and we must also consider the cable wiring.
Compression solution: design ideas and practice
1. Thinking about the upper limit of the PRC machine
The 6 planes of the PRC machine need to be input and output. Then a very direct inference is that the six square blocks adjacent to the PRC cannot place other production machines.As shown in the figure below, the red glass can only put ME intelligent cables and the pipeline of BC or MEK:
In order to compress the space, when 3 PRC machines are placed, we hope to meet the above constraints to put them close enough.We can only put them in the following ways to place them on the three vertices of a rectangular triangular cone:
At this time, the three machines and the surrounding pipelines have occupied 4X4X4 space.Therefore, we can get inferring that the production line cannot be compressed to a smaller space than 4x4x4.
Here's one more thing: This right -angle triangular cone is not necessarily "placed on the ground", as shown in the figure below is also a reasonable placement: we call the previous method "lower triangle", and the latter one is "the upper triangle"" ".
2. About the side of the PRC machine
As an example, we stripped the PRC machine and take a look at the side of the three machines.
It can be seen that there is a position connected with all three machines. This position is best to transport resources that all three PRCs need to transport them. The cables are the best choice; there are three positions that are shared by two machines, equipment 1 and 3Water is needed, suitable for placing water pipes; there are 9 places for each machine to use it by themselves.If we want to compress the space as much as possible, then provide shared resources on the shared side as much as possible, and private resources are supplied or output from the green side as much as possible.
3. About the water supply system
A water supply must occupy at least 1x1x3 in order to put down the water cubes, pumps and mechanical pipes:
You may question whether the mechanical pipeline is required. Why not put the PRC machine directly on the pump?This situation is placed on the third floor.Combining the previous analysis of the PRC side, this method of picking up may either occupy a red position in the lower triangle swing method, or occupy 2 yellow positions in the upper triangle method, which is a waste of space.
Since the mechanical pipeline cannot be saved, we may wish to consider whether the equipment 1 and 3 can be connected directly with it.Based on this consideration, we chose the upper triangle instead of the lower triangle.At this time, we already have the general design as shown below:
At the same time, the function of the three machines is also determined: the second floor is equipment 2, and the position of the two above is symmetrical, but we might as well let the back as equipment 1, the left is the equipment 3.
4. Place the placement of other equipment
Now we add other devices in the main line: one electrolytic separation machine, two rotary air fluid converters, and related channels.
There is not much doubt about the location of the electrolytic separation machine, connect to the mechanical pipeline, and as close to the device 1 as much as possible.I choose to put it above the mechanical pipe, as shown below.The design in the green place should be okay.
Next, connect the first gas -liquid converter:
Then there are the WC pipelines from the wiring of equipment 2 and 3.In order to supply equipment first, then supply equipment 3, the wiring is slightly wrapped, pay attention to the direction of the second gas -liquid converter:
5. Do ME first or power supply?
There are only two jobs: one is to build the ME network, replace all the red glass in the figure above and connect together; the other is to connect the power supply cable to each machine and connect all the cables to all cables to the cable to theTogether.
I recommend starting from the ME network. There are three reasons: First, ME has more network constraints, and the number of devices in the network exceeds 8. You need to find a reasonable position to place the ME controller to avoid the channel overload;Second, installing a variety of bus is a fine work. You need a broad venue to place them; Third, if you find that after the AE network is set up, it is difficult to connect the power supply network as a whole, and you can also pass through the P2P channel bridge.(I found a reasonable wiring method in my final version, but the previous version did use the P2P channel to solve it)
We are facing this situation: the position of the red glass cannot be wiring; the right side of the green glass needs to be connected to a line; the neighbors that are not filled with the blue glass must be wiring.In the end our wiring plan is as follows:
Need to connect the interface position
The final wiring plan
Wiring scheme: bring ME controller and interface
The wiring scheme should be more than this. As long as you can connect to the location of all interfaces, you can use your creativity to explore other solutions.The position of the ME controller is deliberately designed. In this position, it is deliberately divided into two lines, which are 5 channels. Since all the devices of AE can be used as a cable, you can use any location of the above line line.Place me drive.
There is only a wire supply cable left below. The blue glass is marked with a machine that needs to be powered (7):
Finally, come here a few more real pictures. Remember that device 2 must run faster than device 1:
Summarize
In the text, we first introduced the machines and processes of plastic production in Mekanism, and then set up a logical and effective production factory to explain the necessity of BC pipelines, the need for two air fluid conversion, and the convenience brought by the introduction of AE2; secondAnalysis of the above attempts, analyzing the design of the system containing the PRC and water supply system, and obtained the compression limit of the plastic factory; in the end, we will step by step to give the factories that implement this limit.sex.I hope this work can inspire everyone and provide more fun in MC's play.
Talk later
1. Why did I know that there was a god -level module called the Mo Ying interface, and the white design (#cover the face);
2. In fact, the pump can be more saved: you can use BC pumps, it can not only send the water up, except for the following 5 noodles, it can be used. Maybe it can also be designed from the lower triangle;
3. The former ace module is not updated.When I wrote a tutorial, I found that the BC stayed at 1.12, and many other once ace modules were not updated.The integrated package in my hand has also been played for almost 10 years, and the time has passed so fast.4. It took a lot of thoughts to write a tutorial, hoping to get everyone's positive feedback!
