How To Set Up Buildcraft Quarry

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A Quarry is a car that automatically mines a large surface area. This area, by default, is 9x9 blocks, merely it can exist defined by landmarks to a maximum of 64x64. It rarely requires any transmission work, and simply needs a supply of energy (Mj).

Recipe [ ]

Ingredients:

2 10 Diamond Gears
two x Gold Gears
three x Atomic number 26 Gears
1 x Diamond Pickaxe
one x Redstone Dust

Produces: 1 x Quarry

Encounter: Crafting Guide

Process [ ]

The Quarry volition offset past removing any obstructing blocks in the mode of its frame. Important: Items in chests and blocks in the area will NOT exist dropped. This frame is 5 meters tall. They seem to support a moving structure with a diamond-similar object at the lesser, likely a laser or drill of some kind. This "miner" moves around, excavating each layer block by cake. The speed at which it mines a cake is adamant by how much power is beingness supplied.

During earthworks, each block mined will be ejected from the top. These items will be ejected with extreme kinetic energy, unless a pipe is connected. There is no demand for a forest pipe to fetch the items, the Quarry volition place the items into a connected stone, cobblestone, gold, fe, or diamond pipe on its own. In the result that the quarry encounters lava, the remainder of the blocks located under the lava will not be mined. If the lava is converted to obsidian or asphalt, the quarry will showtime re-mining those blocks.

The Quarry's miner tool. Possibly a laser or drill.

Hugger-mugger Operation [ ]

A Quarry can role at whatever level. Just placing it against a shaft wall and powering it is all that is required to offset the default 9x9 area. The blocks in the frame area will be destroyed. It is possible to create a landmark-drawn frame as per above ground, apply a Redstone torch next to a land marking to see where to place the next markers. Using this method information technology becomes possible to save time and fuel by placing your Quarry right higher up the gilded/diamond levels.

Power [ ]

Four Quarry blocks in action. Note the different positions of the miner tool.

The Quarry must be powered by i or more engines. Quarries accept an internal buffer of energy, and require a few seconds to charge. The lowest the power must be at is v RF/tick (it may be lower, hasn't been tested).

The Quarry doesn't have an upper limit of power input, although the Quarry is much more efficient at higher power.

Quarry efficiency. Tested on Buildcraft version 7.99.24.1

Tips [ ]

The landmarks can specify an area up to 64x64, giving a maximum possible quarry size of 62x62. An surface area this large provides a depression-maintenance quarry that doesn't demand replacing most every bit frequently as the default 9x9 quarry, just be advised that mining from a quarry this large takes about ten minutes per layer at full speed. Also, a few layers will make full several chests of sand, dirt and cobblestone, depending on the selected region (there is a lot of dirt and sand under h2o).
By placing the frame in a higher place water, or by placing a water source block on the first layer of the quarry, whatsoever lava encountered will immediately plow into cobblestone or obsidian, fugitive delays. The water will also forestall hostile mob spawning.
Mining in this manner requires very footling additional interaction from the thespian and is nigh fully automated, but is considerably less fourth dimension-efficient than mining manually, and in detail, gathering the ores encrusted in the walls of a cave while exploring it. A practiced fashion to take advantage of both cases is to select a relatively minor area to dig (the default is good) and to gather any ore visible on the walls of the quarry once information technology is finished.
Use of enderchests and pipes can get in very easy to ship all of the blocks from the quarry to your home/base/castle etc.
When mining through an aboveground or underground water the quarry volition extend the h2o blocks' 'running distance' through the entire dig site every bit each level is dug progressively. An entire quarry site may exist filled from a unmarried water cake slopping down to its extremities. Removing information technology (filling that block) will evacuate the remaining water in a chain reaction. If the quarry digs through a large body of water (such as the ocean or a lake), the h2o blocks will duplicate at each level mined and the quarry site will fill with individual water blocks.
Be careful when sneaking on the frame (to prevent falling). If the tube rests directly on acme of a block your motion will not exist stopped when reaching the end of the piping but pace downwardly to the block beneath. If you step down at a straight angle you lot may overstep and fall into your quarry pit. The same applies to all other piping structures.
When removing the quarry, take precautions to stand in the path of its popping motion, as information technology otherwise may fall into your pit with the hazard of losing it. Standing on summit of it, or moving frontward with the sneak key pressed may help.
Never place a quarry Beneath or INSIDE a landmark pathway and activate it. The quarry will endeavor to remove blocks, and destroy itself.
Fifty-fifty with a protected excursion (shut-off circuits with gates), a combustion engine is in liability of exploding through user mistake or problems. The firsthand radius of the explosion destroys the blocks completely. Unless properly supervised, ensure that the quarry is within condom distance of combustion engines or protected by blocks with a loftier boom resistance . Note: Some Mods (Such as Industrial Craft 2) modify the nail resistance of certain items.

Notes [ ]

Water ice blocks, spawners, and glass blocks volition interruption upon mining, giving you nada.
If a chest is mined, the chest will exist dispensed out of the quarry, but the contents will be scattered where the breast was broken, every bit if information technology were cleaved past hand. The quarry will also pick up the scattered items unless breaking the chest sent them out of its range, as in the example of a dig site cutting a dungeon in one-half.
Can make a sphere of objects in the frame, as the laser volition destroy the nearest block in a sphere within the quarry scaffolding

Setup Demonstration [ ]

A short video guide on how to use the Quarry. More information tin can exist institute at Tutorials/Getting Started