Struggling to work with Immersive Engineering Coke ovens/Blast furnaces

[dyc3]

Versions:

• Modpack: All the mods 8
• Super factory manager: 4.14.1
• Immersive engineering: 1.19.2-9.2.3-167

Setup:

Code:

name "Coke/Steel Manager"

every 20 ticks do
    input from "coal"
    output 8 to each coke_oven top side

    FORGET

    input from coke_oven
    output to each blast_furnace bottom side

    FORGET

    input from iron
    output 8 to each blast_furnace top side

    FORGET

    input from blast_furnace
    output to results
end

What I'm trying to do is automate steel production. This is by no means comprehensive yet (creosote is not handled at all yet). During my testing, I can't seem to get the factory manager to take coal coke out of the coke oven. Nor can I get it to input steel into the blast furnace. Am I doing something wrong in my code or with the labels?

[TeamDman]

Can you confirm that a hopper is able to insert to that location? I'm not familiar if the coke oven and blast furnace permit input from the top or if you need to do it from the side.

My immediate hypothesis is that your program is inputting the items and immediately taking them out; you have no filter on the extraction logic.

here's something that may inspire

EVERY 20 TICKS DO
  -- input ingredients
  INPUT FROM coal
  OUTPUT RETAIN 8 TO EACH coke_oven TOP SIDE
FORGET
  -- move coke
  INPUT *coke* FROM coke_oven TOP SIDE
  OUTPUT TO blast_furnace TOP SIDE
FORGET
  -- move iron
  INPUT FROM iron
  OUTPUT RETAIN 8 TO EACH blast_furnace TOP SIDE
FORGET
  -- move results
  INPUT *steel* FROM blast_furnace TOP SIDE
  OUTPUT TO results
FORGET
END

you can select code and hit ctrl+/ to toggle comments on it to try and isolate problems

[dyc3]

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Ah, nice to see my vscode keybinds work here :)

Tested the following inputs with a hopper:

Structure	Side	Item	Success
Coke Oven	All	Coal	Yes
Crude Blast Furnace	Top	Coal Coke	No
Crude Blast Furnace	Left	Iron Ingot	No
Crude Blast Furnace	Front	Iron Ingot	No
Improved Blast Furnace	Top	Iron Ingot	Yes
Improved Blast Furnace	Top	Coal Coke	Yes

So actually, I think just the Crude Blast Furnace is not allowed to be automated at all. You have to build the improved one. I'm still not able to get the steel and slag out of the improved blast furnace without using chests as intermediate storage on the outputs in the front and back, which is a little annoying but its easy enough to work around.

My setup now looks like this:

My code looks like this:

name "Coke/Steel Manager"

every 20 ticks do
    -- insert coal
    input from "coal"
    output 1 to each coke_oven top side

    FORGET

    -- move coke to blast
    input from coke_oven slots 1
    output retain 8 to each blast_furnace top side

    FORGET

    -- put iron in blast
    input from iron
    output 1 to each blast_furnace top side
end