r1010: oxygen supply dupe from multiple collectors or for multiple sealers

[EzerArch]

Minecraft Version: 1.6.4 Forge Version: 9.11.1.965-MCPatcher Galacticraft Version: 2.0.11.1010

(Not serious, except for engineering addicts like me. :3 )

Expected behavior: The collectors should supply at least the amount required by the sealers. Example, 1 sealer requires 320/s to work consistently, so 1 collector has to supply 320/s. I can also install 2 collectors generating 160/L each (160x2=320), the sealer would work.

Also if I have 2 sealers, both together will require 640/s since the oxygen supply would split, a quota for each sealer, then the collectors should supply at least 640/s in total.

The problem: I started to remove some leaves, each collector started to generate less oxygen than supposedly needed for a sealer to work. I ended up removing a half of the leaves the collectors were generating 80/s each and the sealer didn't fail, but it did after I had removed more leaves and the collectors were generating 60/s.

Video: http://www.twitch.tv/ezerarch/b/520537319

• skip to 06:00: 2 collectors outputting 100/s each, sealer works and spares some O2 in its internal storage.
• skip to 07:00: 2 collectors outputting 80/s each, sealer consumes exactly the same amount produced.
• 07:40 or further: 2 collectors outputting 60/s each, sealer starts to fail.

The leaves were placed in a 5x10 area next to the collectors.

(Just a question: Am I the only one player who cares about numbers, units, joules, watts and formulas? Not the devs don't. It seems players just slap stuff together on trial-and-error basis, if works, great!)

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EDIT: I placed 3 collectors next to 27 leaf blocks, outputting 40/s each. The sealer worked and still spared some air.

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EDIT2: During my last livestream test in a new fresh world, I could also connect 3 sealers to a single collector which was sending 320~340/s.

www.twitch.tv/ezerarch/b/520567862?t=57m

Is it intended?

[radfast]

Thanks EzerArch, I found the problem and fixed it on the 1.6 branch, expect a new build soon. The exact problem was that a pipe network with an Oxygen Collector on it had the pipes outputting N x the amount of oxygen that the Oxygen Collector put into the pipes, where N was the number of other oxygen machines on the same pipe network (not counting the actual Oxygen Collector itself). An Oxygen Sealer and an Oxygen Collector both count as "oxygen machines" for these purposes. So your first example had N=3.

Nice spot, this was a general problem affecting any oxygen pipe network in Galacticraft so it would have affected Oxygen Distributors etc as well.