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Description

This is the Power Flower configuration known as a "Petaled Power Flower" and is well suited for large-scale, expandable setup. It is comprised of an EMC generation structure (producing diamonds) in a flower-petal configuration tying into a central "stalk" or target point. As your resources demand/allow you can add more "petals" to the configuration to increase its output.

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Medium-sized, Petaled Power Flower buried underground. Outputs diamonds into an Ender Chest to allow easy access to diamond production from anywhere on the map. This power plant is used an EMC (via diamonds) supply plant for several offsite factories.











Basic Idea

The basic idea behind a Power Flower is to use Energy Collectors (which turn light into EMC) to produce Diamonds (or another suitable-value EMC item) in an Energy Condenser. A Power Flower is a complex arrangement of these devices (Collectors, Relays, and Condensers) that is both expandable and will produce diamonds at optimal or close-to-optimal rates. 

EMC Generation

The following table shows EMC generation rates based on the individual components (Energy Collectors, and Anti-Matter Relays). Please note these EMC/s rates are for ONE Petal in the configuration outlined in this tutorial.

EMC/s Production Table (per Petal)
Total EMC/s if all Objects are
Count Object MK1  MK2  MK3
12 x Energy Collectors 12 144 480
16 x

"Active" Anti-Matter Relay Faces

16 48 160
TOTAL 28 192 640

For an explanation of what an "Active" Anti-Matter Relay face is, see theAntimatter Relay page.

Note

Please be aware that this Power Flower can be constructed with only one Collector and Condensor, only one "petal" or even just basic MK1 Collectors and Condensers. While such a configuration would not technically comprise a true Power Flower, you might need to hobble along the design at first until you can afford to make all the upgraded components.

Required Materials

The following is a list of materials used in the construction of a Power Flower. Please note that some of these materials and machines can be replaced with alternate versions (e.g. Filters in place of Retriever/Retrievulators) or even upgraded versions of themselves (e.g. MK II and MK III instead of MK I).

12x Energy Collector (upgrade to MK2 or MK3)

4 x Antimatter Relay (MK2 or MK3)

1 x Energy Condenser

1 x Diamond 

8 x Redstone Tube

1 x Filter

1 x Cover

1 x Chest

Step 1: Planning Space Requirements

A standard "petal" on a flower is a comprised of each of the listed materials above and will occupy roughly a 3x3x3 cube depending on your final implementation. If you're planning on needing a lot of "petals" on your Power Flower it is advisable to bury the Power Flower near bedrock level so you can expand upward (and even horizontally) without running into things you've already built and aren't keen on destroying.

With MK1 and MK2 collectors you will need Glowstone anyways, so burying underground is not an issue. MK3 Collectors produce enough of their own light to run efficiently without glowstone.

Step 2: Layer 1

The first layer of the each petal of your Power Flower is comprised of your Condenser (target set to Diamond), your 4 Anti-matter Relays and 8 Energy Collectors. While your Energy Condenser is exposed, make sure to set its "target" to a single diamond.

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Layer 1 of petal (Power Flower)









Step 3: Layer 2

In Layer 2 you will place a Filter on top of the Energy Condenser (so diamonds can be sucked out) and place additional Energy Collectors on top of the exposed faces of the Anti-Matter Relays.

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Layer 2 of petal (Power Flower) showing Filter orientation
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completed layer 2 of Petal (Power Flower)

















Step 4: Layer 3

To finish off this petal of the Power Flower we just need to hook up the Redstone Tube to the output face of the Filter, and place a cover on the surface of the adjacent Energy Collector so that diamonds won't be re-routed down into it (as it would be the closest target desitanation for the Pneumatic Tube routing aglorithm).

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Layer 3 of petal (Power Flower) with Redstone Tube and Microblock Cover









Step 5: Petal Complete

Congratulations! Your most basic Power Flower is essentially complete. To make a bigger Power Flower, contstruct more of these Petals all over and connect the Redstone Tubes to make a complete network of Petals. In the next step we will tie the tubes into a chest to complete the basic Power Flower.

Step 6: Finishing the Power Flower

Now that we have a petal complete we just need to tie it in to a central chest that will fill up with all our diamonds that the Petals are producing.

To do this, keep routing Redstone Tube until you are a safe distance away (don't want to interfere with other Petals) and then connect the Redstone Tubes into the top of a chest.

Connect up some Red Alloy Wire, Jacketed Red Wire, and a Timer to send a redstone signal through to tube network to all connected Filters (thus triggering them to pull out the diamonds you've generated).

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Power Flower central target chest and wiring









Step 7: Done!

At this point you have a basic, Single Petal Power Flower. Stand back and watch the Diamond come flowing in! (Although if you're using all MK1 machines be prepared to wait).

Step 8: Glowstone Optimization

If you aren't using MK3 Collectors you should go back and cap off all the tops of visible Collectors with a block of Glowstone. This will also let you bury the power flower underground.

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Completed Power Flower petal with Glowstone block caps for underground and nighttime efficiency









Step 9: Stepping up your game

Once you can afford to, you should immediately upgrade your Collectors and Relays as high as they will go (MK3). You can also start to construct additional petals and tie them in to your Power Flower. 

Further expansion might require piping into a Condenser with a Red Matter target to avoid overflowing your central diamond chest. You'll figure out more fun stuff as you go.

Have fun!

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Adding more Petals to your Power Flower
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