Infinite EMC: Cobblestone Slab Cycle

Infinite EMC: Cobblestone Slab Cycle is a Tutorial.

Infinite EMC: Cobblestone Slab Cycle is a part of the Equivalent Exchange mod.

The magical EMC machine.

Infinite EMC tutorial

For those who cannot afford Energy Collectors, or consider them as cheating, this method of EMC is for you! Granted, it’s rather slow, but it’s also very cheap.

Checklist of Ingredients

You will need: 1. One Energy Condenser 2. One Automatic Crafting Table 3. Two Redstone Engines 4. Two Wooden Pipes 5. Four Stone Pipes (or Cobblestone Pipes) 6. Two Redstone Torches (or Levers, or any source of redstone power) 7. Seven Cobblestone blocks

Step-by-step Instructions

1. Place your Energy condenser.

...like so

2. Dig a two-deep hole to the right of the Energy Condenser.

This is not too deep.

3. Place a Redstone Torch at the bottom.

Torch in a hole!

4. Place a Redstone Engine on the torch.

Engine on top!

5. Place a Wooden Pipe on the engine.

...and a Wooden Pipe to top it off!

6. Place the Automatic Crafting Table to the right of the wooden pipe.

It's like a little family!

7. Dig a two-deep hole behind the Automatic Crafting Table.

Another two deep hole.

8. Put a Redstone Torch at the bottom, a Redstone Engine on the torch and a Wooden Pipe on the engine, same as before. (Area cleared for better viewing; you don’t really need this hole)

It's a redstone cake!

9. Use the Stone Pipe to connect the Wooden Pipe to the Energy Condenser.

Pipes in the background.

10. Place one Cobblestone in the Energy Condenser’s target slot and six in the Automatic Crafting Table to make Cobblestone Slabs.

Condenser GUI.

ACT GUI.

Voila! Infinite EMC!

How it works:

The lines of operation.

The EMC value of Cobblestone is 1. Cobblestone Slab also has a value of 1 EMC. It takes three Cobblestone to make six Cobblestone Slabs, so the EMC value doubles.

The Energy condenser is making 1 Cobblestone for every 1 Slab, and the Automatic Crafting Table is making 2 Slabs for every Cobblestone. Deja et deja.

Tips:

The fastest, most expensive CSC out there!

Try replacing some of the Stone Pipe with Gold Pipe. You will need to power them with redstone. Use Fast Electric Engines (if in Technic) but avoid Combustion Engines. The source of their power in this picture is a High Voltage Solar Array.

Redpower version.

You can attempt a build using Filters and Pneumatic Tubes. I have been unable to get this to work, however. In the picture, the cycle is Energy Condenser>Filter>Pneumatic Pipe>ACT>Filter>Pneumatic Pipe>Energy Condenser. I used timers to trigger the Filters. The problem was that the Filters weren’t pulling Cobblestone Slabs, probably because the Slabs aren’t really there but can be crafted from the ACT.

In order for this method to work, you will need to put the filter on top of the crafting table. Also an Automatic Crafting Table MkII is required for the Filters to recognise the craft.

EMC cost:

Energy Condenser (42,011) + Automatic Crafting Table (48) + Redstone Engines (405)x2 + Wooden Pipe (17)x4 + Stone Pipe (8)x4 +Redstone Torch (68)x2 + Cobblestone (1)x7 = 43,044 EMC

Stacking Instructions:

First build the exact same structure two blocks above the first. There must be only one block between the pipes so they don’t connect. You can build as many layers as you like; in this picture I've built three.

To power the engines, use one torch between the two engines, then a block above the torch, then redstone dust on that block. The reason for the replacing a torch with dust is because a torch will turn off from the input of the torch beneath.

You will need a Wrench (Buildcraft) to realign the Redstone Engines. (Also the Iron Pipes in the next tip)

You can use just one Energy Condenser, an arrangement of Iron Pipes and a Distribution Pipe system to lower the cost. WARNING: You will be sacrificing speed this way.

Set two Distribution Pipes like this.

The Pipes should be set this way. Right click to open the GUI. NOTE: The colors might be different depending on the orientation of the pipes. The numbers should be the same. (The zero slot will always be the pipe leading back to where the item came from, so nothing will be going backwards)

Lower cost and smaller footprint version:

With levers under the cobblestone pipes and the condenser touching the Autocraft Table you get a 3x2x2 setup that gets rid of redstone torches and reduces travel time.

This design is meant for the Cobblestone Slab Cycle.  If using "Stick/Ladder" an extra redstone engine (or 2) is suggested on the wood pipe coming out of the condenser. (out of sync with the other one) That will double the generation speed and keep the AutoCrafts' engine from overheating from not having ladders to pull.

Manually grabbing a stack from the Condenser and putting it in the table will also help discharge the build up.