I have been trying to fill a macerator using an extraction tube from a chest and I don't think the tube system can do that at the current moment.
Default mode just extracts everything from the chest and spits it out when it can't go anywhere
This is unusable for the application
Redstone Control and Read Comparator Output combined with setting the Filled Dir Slots to inverted and activate sign value
This should work, but it has an issue. The output of the comparator value doesn't update itself when an operation is finished (or the slot is manually emptied). It does update when taking (part) of the outputs out of the machine, and it works once, when it is set up, and every time I toggle the Sign Value or any other comparator setting. Pretty sure this is not intended behavior.
But even if it would update correctly, it won't be much help unless the chest only contains one sort of items. Every time this triggers, it pulls 4 items out of the chest. Great if it is 4 of the same items, but as soon as it is different, some items are spilled into the world to despawn. I tried enabling pulse mode with this as well and it worked once. I would hope that it works this way and just doesn't because of the update issue, but if it does not work currently. I would wish for the machines to actually give off a redstone pulse when the comparator output changes (maybe configurable in the comparator settings.
Side note: Are the comparator setting values explained anywhere? I can only guess what which output considers by playing around with different filled slots and reading the value
I have been trying to fill a macerator using an extraction tube from a chest and I don't think the tube system can do that at the current moment.
Default mode just extracts everything from the chest and spits it out when it can't go anywhere
This is unusable for the application
Redstone Control and Read Comparator Output combined with setting the Filled Dir Slots to inverted and activate sign value
This should work, but it has an issue. The output of the comparator value doesn't update itself when an operation is finished (or the slot is manually emptied). It does update when taking (part) of the outputs out of the machine, and it works once, when it is set up, and every time I toggle the Sign Value or any other comparator setting. Pretty sure this is not intended behavior.
But even if it would update correctly, it won't be much help unless the chest only contains one sort of items. Every time this triggers, it pulls 4 items out of the chest. Great if it is 4 of the same items, but as soon as it is different, some items are spilled into the world to despawn. I tried enabling pulse mode with this as well and it worked once. I would hope that it works this way and just doesn't because of the update issue, but if it does not work currently. I would wish for the machines to actually give off a redstone pulse when the comparator output changes (maybe configurable in the comparator settings.
Side note: Are the comparator setting values explained anywhere? I can only guess what which output considers by playing around with different filled slots and reading the value