Buildcraft gate guild

Introduction

The addition of gate to the buildcraft world has made pipes quite a bit smarter. Allowing a player to have more control and ability to create more compact machine layouts.


Buildcraft gates are design around a cause and effect philosophy.  When opening the gate GUI by right clicking on a gate that has been place on a pipe, you'll see two grouping of boxes.  A left side which is the cause and a right side which is the effect.


By clicking on the boxes on the left side you will cycle through a list of events that will cause an effect on the gate.  The list of possible events will change depending on what Machine/Chest/Tanks are next to the gate.  Gold and Diamond gates also has an extra column on the left grouping that normally has a black line through it.  This column is an item filter and is only unlocked when using certain causes such as Items in Inventory.

The right side is the possible effect that the gate can have.  By default all gates can output a redstone signal.  Higher tier can also output different color pipe Signals and the Autarchic gates also has an Energy Pulser effect.

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CHOOSING YOUR GATE.


Normal vs. Autarchic?

Autarchic gates when place on a pipe and set to have the energy pulser effect it will act like a redstone engine on that pipe.  So if place on a wooden transport pipe connected to a chest, it would pump items out. Place on a wooden waterproof pipe, it would pump the liquid out. Placing an Autarchic gate on any other type of pipe would have no additional effect beyond that of a normal gate.


AND vs. OR?  (Note: This only applies when using the redstone signal effect.)

If you want the gate to output a redstone signal when more then 1 cause is true than use an AND gate.  If you want to output a redstone signal when any of the causes are true then use an OR gate.


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Basic Gate
[Recipe]

Number of slots: 1
Possible Effects: Redstone Signal.


Iron Gate
[Recipe]

Number of slots: 2
Possible Effects: Redstone Signal, Red Pipe Signal

Gold Gate
[Recipe]

Number of slots: 4
Can filter base on item
Possible Effects: Redstone Signal, Red Pipe Signal, Blue Pipe Signal

Diamond Gate
[Recipe]

Number of slots: 8
Can filter base on item
Possible Effects: Redstone Signal, Red Pipe Signal, Blue Pipe Signal, Yellow Pipe Signal, Green Pipe Signal


(TIP: One way to remember what pipe signal a gate can use, is to remember what wires were used to craft the gate in the first place)

Autarchic Gates are made by using the appropriate gate plus a Pulsating Chipset and Redstone Iron Chipset.

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Pipe Wire

There are 4 kinds of pipe wire. Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow.  You can add all 4 kinds to a pipe at that same time.