Tekkit 2 pointers for optimizing pipe useage

                         

Tekkit 2 offers many different pipes and solutions to route items, we will look at the most commonly used pipes and some information on how utilize them.

ProjectRed Transportation.

Transportation is a module of ProjectRed. It adds pipes along with chips to the game, which allow for automated item routing.

An example of a conventionally bad setup with pipes looping by not utilizing covers.

 

An example of a good setup utilizing covers to prevent looping 

 

Item Transport pipes only have the ability to take items that enter it and pass them along to another connected pipe. They will NOT connect to inventories at all. In a junction where there is more than 1 possible direction, item payloads will travel in a randomly selected direction.

 

 

All ProjectRed pipes will connect to eachother.

 

 

Connections to other pipes can be obscured by other multipart blocks (important to prevent looping!)

 

 

 

 

Logistic Pipes.

Logistics Pipes (LP) is an add-on to BuildCraft. The original aim of the mod was to greatly improve the functionality and usefulness of BuildCraft's various transport pipes. However, after many continuous improvements, LP now only uses BuildCraft pipes in crafting recipes anymore. If you're used to them being used together with BC's pipes, you can still do it that way, but in most cases that is not optimal.

The mod is a solid item transport and routing system with many neat tricks. You can use it to automate crafting and machines, keep certain items stocked, and remotely order items from your storage. It can handle items as well as fluids, can transport RF and EU power, and it even has special handling for Forestry's bees and Thaumcraft!

Everything in LP is about automating item transport. The transport and sorting works with both the push and pull principles. Push means that items can be simply inserted into the LP network and it will find a suitable destination; pull means that an item is requested at a specific destination, and the LP network will try to find an inventory which contains the item, then send it on its way. BuildCraft's pipes for example only use the push principle, it cannot order items. The automated crafting systems can handle both regular crafting recipes and machines well.

 

Pictured above is a portion of a logistics autocraft-requester setup.

 

While Logistics Pipes may seem a lot more intricate and annoying to use compared to ProjectRed pipes, the advantages are endless in the likes of keeping server performance healthy, optimized and responsive item routing and most importantly: they offer much greater speed when done right.

 

 

Logistics Pipes comes with many different types of pipes, modules, chassis and blocks - this link will take you to the wiki to further explore each part.