Having a good sized furnace array would speed things up for me, except I haven't figured out how to get lava buckets to work on an automatic one. The biggest array I built was using a tutorial for 64 furnaces, and it was tricky to get working because it has 3 shulker box systems (2 unloaders, and 1 loader). I kinda broke it though trying to adapt it to lava buckets. So I'm trying to build my own version but it's so hard to get the redstone right, things interfering with each other and not sure what to fix.
Since the 1.17 update I bought some dripstone from the wandering trader, and also ventured far out into new chunks for some more. I made a dripstone farm, then a lava farm with the dripstone, getting quite a lot of lava, so I really want to get this working using lava buckets.
If anyone has an idea of how to adapt a furnace array to use lava buckets let me know, I could really use some help.
I think we need more information. Which furnace array are you trying to duplicate, and what broke?
To my knowledge you can use lava like any other fuel source, that is, distribute lava with minecarts, hopper chains, water streams (just use droppers and not dispensers) or more elaborate distribution systems (like ilmangos perfect item distributor to ensure that each furnace gets the same amount of lava buckets). So in theory you should be able to adopt any furnace system to lava, and I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. The only thing is that you need to filter the empty buckets out (they will end up in the hoppers collecting the smelted items).
Having a good sized furnace array would speed things up for me, except I haven't figured out how to get lava buckets to work on an automatic one. The biggest array I built was using a tutorial for 64 furnaces, and it was tricky to get working because it has 3 shulker box systems (2 unloaders, and 1 loader). I kinda broke it though trying to adapt it to lava buckets. So I'm trying to build my own version but it's so hard to get the redstone right, things interfering with each other and not sure what to fix.
Since the 1.17 update I bought some dripstone from the wandering trader, and also ventured far out into new chunks for some more. I made a dripstone farm, then a lava farm with the dripstone, getting quite a lot of lava, so I really want to get this working using lava buckets.
If anyone has an idea of how to adapt a furnace array to use lava buckets let me know, I could really use some help.
I think we need more information. Which furnace array are you trying to duplicate, and what broke?
To my knowledge you can use lava like any other fuel source, that is, distribute lava with minecarts, hopper chains, water streams (just use droppers and not dispensers) or more elaborate distribution systems (like ilmangos perfect item distributor to ensure that each furnace gets the same amount of lava buckets). So in theory you should be able to adopt any furnace system to lava, and I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. The only thing is that you need to filter the empty buckets out (they will end up in the hoppers collecting the smelted items).