Several issues with automating blaze burners

[karry245]

Describe the Bug

I built a steam engine to power my factory, but when it came time to automate feeding the blaze burners, i opted for lava since it's easy to farm and has the longest burn time. I set up a mechanical arm that would feed a lava bucket to the blaze burner, but I then discovered that no matter how hard i tried i was unable to set the mechanical arm to target funnels, making it impossible to make the arm only able to return the bucket after it's empty into a brass funnel, and instead causing it to return the bucket still full and the blaze burner unfed> I also tried using the "prefer first target" option for the mechanical arm but despite that it targeted the output instead of the blaze burner, even though i picked the blaze burner first. I then tried using the other method that the mod tells you is a way to automatically feed blaze burners, deployers. But when i set a deployer next to the blaze burner it placed a lava block in between itself and the blaze burner instead of feeding it, and it only works if the blaze burner has already died down, which is suboptimal since i need it to be running at full steam at all times.

Reproduction Steps

1. Get a blaze burner
2. Attempt to set up a mechanical arm to pick up a bucket of lava, feed it to the burner, then return the empty bucket into a brass funnel which is set to only accept empty buckets
3. Attempt to set up a deployer to feed the blaze burner a bucket of lava while it's still burning, in order to sustain it without waiting for it to lose power, preventing the mechanisms dependent on the burner to break in the meantime.

Expected Result

I expected the mechanical arm to be set to depositing into the funnel instead of being placed when i right click the funnel while holding the mechanical arm.

I also expected the deployer to feed the burner instead of placing the lava.

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Operating System

Windows 11

Mod Version

0.5.1f

Minecraft Version

1.20.1

Forge Version

1.250.1

Other Mods

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Additional Context

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[Zero27482]

This doesn’t fix your problem but it’s definitely easier to set up a system we’re you pump the lava into blaze burners with straws in them.

[prog-pog]

you could use 2 arms to give and receive the lava/empty buckets.