Problem with Mana Spreaders

leroy238

Howdy!

I'm having a slight problem. To describe my setup, I have a daisy chain of diluted mana pools (roughly 5 of them) each powering a daffomill, that eventually circles back to the start of the chain (with a few pools in between because of the angle that don't power anything). Problem is, the daffomills will take the smallest drop of mana from the pool, which causes the mana spreader behind it to send a full mana burst to fill the pool to fill it, but I'm pretty sure the mana just overflows into nothing since I've currently drained 2 full mana pools trying to fill up this chain of pools, despite only 2 of them being filled at any particular time.

Do y'all know any way to abate this? My system is kinda covered in redstone or else I would try using a comparator output to lock the spreaders. I've also tried pulse spreaders on delays, but that just lead to no flower getting mana since it was always one burst in, one burst out.

Thanks in advance for the advice, for reference I'm playing a version in 1.18, in case there was a solution implemented in a later version.

williewillus

Is there a reason you need so many pools? Flowers can bind to and draw from pools that aren't adjacent to them. By default, they'll find the closest one within a certain distance and bind to that when you place the flower.

Wormbo

Daisy-chaining pools using spreaders can potentially lose mana if a spreader passes the mana to an almost-full pool, as you suspected. A better way, once you unlocked the Alfheim portal, is putting sparks with dominant augments onto pools you want to feed your flowers from.
Before that, the best way is likely to just take the mana loss, minimizing it by having flowers share pools as much as possible. The binding range of functional flowers is reasonably large, so you should be able to do this with only a couple of diluted pools, which you might want to designate completely as mana sinks. Certain lenses (especially the messenger lens, combined with the velocity lens) can also significantly reduce the size of a mana burst. That way you don't lose as much mana when the pool overflows.