How to build
Required compartments: Energy compartment, Maintenance compartment, me algae access compartment
Non-essential chamber: input bus/chamber, output bus/chamber, machine control chamber
Among them, large-scale algae farms do not rely on output buses to export algae at all, so they can be omitted.
tips: Open the advanced terminal's “use ae items”can automatically place water blocks.
Introduction to Algae Access Compartment Functions
The algae access pod is essentially a bridge between large-scale algae farms and AE.
After connecting ae and increasing its priority, the newly entered algae in its network will directly enter the interior of the large algae farm through the algae access bay.
Algae stored inside large algae farms will also be displayed directly in AE through the algae access warehouse.
Cannot directly input algae into the large algae farm through the input bus!!!
How to start
1. Use the ME input bus to mark at least 5kb of biomass (here taking the 10-level Ender Essence Glass as an example, each higher level requires *4 of the mark amount).
2. Put 16 halogen lamps of each of the three colors into the input bus (currently this mechanism is broken, cannot adjust weights)
3. Increase the priority of the algae access bin, then put 5 types of algae into the network where they are located, and then the algae will begin to proliferate until they reach their corresponding environmental maximum capacity.
At this point, the large algae farm will continuously consume biomass to maintain the algae population inside. As long as you cannot remove all of a certain type of algae at once, the large algae farm will allow the algae to continue proliferating until it reaches the corresponding maximum environmental capacity.
Glass grade parameters
Glass Name | Glass Grade | Biomass Consumption Rate (KB/S) | Blue Algae Environmental Maximum Capacity | Brown Algae Environmental Maximum Capacity | Golden Algae Environmental Maximum Capacity Blue | Green Algae Environmental Maximum Capacity | Red Algae Environmental Maximum Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ender Reinforced Borosilicate Glass | 10 | 1.61 | 371,367 | 282,759 | 223,850 | 393,213 | 332,879 |
Talan Reinforced Borosilicate Glass | 11 | 6.44 | 1,485,478 | 1,131,045 | 895,410 | 1,572,,859 | 1.331,521 |
Quark Reinforced Borosilicate Glass | 12 | 25.76 | 5,941,919 | 4,524,187 | 3,581,647 | 6,291,444 | 5,326,092 |
Dragon Reinforced Borosilicate Glass | 13 | 103.04 | 23,767,682 | 18,096,754 | 14,326,596 | 25,165,782 | 21,304,373 |
Cosmic Neutron Reinforced Borosilicate Glass | 14 | 412.16 | 95,070,737 | 72,387,025 | 57,306,394 | 100,663,133 | 85,271,500 |
For each level increase in glass grade, the environmental capacity is multiplied by 4, and the corresponding biomass consumption is also multiplied by 4.
How to maximize benefits
From the above introduction, it is not difficult to find that most of the time, large algae farms only consume biomass but cannot produce more algae. This is not only wasteful but also requires attention to not exhaust a certain type of algae with each order, which is annoying. Therefore, you will need a solution to this problem.
The idea of the solution is simple: continuously extract newly propagated algae at a constant rate and store them.
Example Plan
Control output speed by limiting container size
Red cables are the subnet where the large algae farm is located, blue cables are the main network.
The indicator is set to light up when it is greater than (container capacity + 1000).
Output bus is set to activate when there is a redstone signal. (Redstone card required.)
Container capacity selection: environmental capacity > 2 × container capacity (different capacities can be obtained by adding different levels of upgrades to the drawer)
It is not recommended to use glass above cosmic neutronium, as biomass consumption is too fast.