How many redstone engines can you chain

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Hope everyone's morning is going well, love you guys! Discussion To discuss the topics on this wiki, you can visit our community forums! BuildCraft Energy:engineBlock. This article discusses the redstone engine in Buildcraft version 2. For the version in Buildcraft 3, see here. Redstone engines are the cheapest of the type of Engine.

They use wood instead of stone or iron in their crafting and are the least powerful of the three types of engine.

Redstone engines, like all other engines, gain speed as they heat up, which increases their energy output per second. Unlike Combustion engines, they will never explode on running hot, except when not powering anything see below. In fact, they produce more power when becoming orange-blinking-red and it is not advised to turn them off unless needed again, see below. In the current Buildcraft versions for Minecraft 1.

As part of this change pumps are now better able to accept power from redstone engines directly requires 2 or more engines , however it is impossible to use a redstone engine to power more advanced machines. The Redstone Engine has 4 different power outputs, depending on how hot it is, it will eventually heat up and reach the last better output. Orange-blinking-Red : Makes 1 Energy Pulse every second 0. This is the max safe power output. Redstone engines are most often used for powering things like wooden pipes when it's not necessary to move many items at once because they are cheap to produce and maintain.

Redstone engines are at their best used as powering for wooden pipes , for solid items or liquids. They are sufficient to execute this task and don't need a significant installation to function.

The minimum configuration takes only two blocks: the engine itself and a lever or redstone torch. What's new New posts New resources New profile posts Latest activity.

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Search Advanced…. New posts. Search forums. How many electrical engines can you daisychain? Thread starter JsutffJr Start date Feb 7, Please make sure you are posting in the correct place. Server ads go here and modpack bugs go here. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. JsutffJr New Member. Jul 29, 43 0 0. So I'm trying to power a quarry with a ton of electrical engines, right now I only have 12 linked together in daisy chain fashion, but when I turn 6 of them off the quarry seems to run at the exact same speed.

Is there a limit to how many engines you can chain together? SReject New Member. Jul 29, 0 0. Cool thx - can you put as many as you want on conductive pipe though? JsutffJr said:.