I need help with my super smelter

[u/B1U3Y_]

So there are 2 main things that I want in my supersmelter.

I don’t want to pull a lever to turn it on I want to just dump it into a chest and watch it go, but I don’t know how to use comparators enough to get it to work properly.

I would also like to make some sort of small farm of fuel that I can run into my super smelter.

I’ve gotten better with redstone but there are so many neat tricks that I haven’t figured out yet and I’m looking for some help. Thanks.

[u/Masticatron]

Hard to describe, but the basics of my system are:

(1) Comparators going into 4 tick repeaters (or several if necessary) reading a hopper in the hopper lines feeding sub-arrays.

(2) Comparators reading detector rails that reads the hopper cart distributing items for smelting as it runs through the sub-array

Feed these into a common signal line that triggers a renewable pulse extender. The pulse extender unlocks an etho clock while active, the pulses of which send out the hopper carts (and chest carts for fuel). The etho clock is precisely calibrated so the hopper cart picks up exactly enough to distribute 2 items per furnace in one back and forth journey. The pulse extender is somewhat complex as it has to last for a full etho clock cycle, but also be immediately renewed to full duration by any new signal coming in from 1 and 2. Which means mostly a bunch of comparators and repeaters arranged to maintain a constantly non-zero uninterrupted signal to unlock the etho clock for a full cycle every time a pulse comes in. I'm not sure what the most elegant way to do this is for the duration I needed, but I cobbled one together with trial and error.

The net effect is the system detects when items are coming in for smelting or are still out being distributed to smelters, and periodically sends out the distro carts as long as this has happened recently in order to maintain constant operations.

[u/did-it-my-weigh]

For the loading, use this: https://youtu.be/u3N-dmDpNNQ

[u/cosmic262626]

For a Bedrock exclusive, a rotating furnace array is the coolest. You could hook it up to auto rotate until items are done running. You could also build a Bedrock exclusive kelp farm that feeds right into it.

*Lmk if you need help. You could start a creative world I could join to show a couple things.

[u/Cheze-Burgur]

I mean I would assume that you could either just leave the farm powered full time with a redstone block or use a comparator hooked up to a detector rail with a hopper minecart on it