Hello, welcome back to Across the Map!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I haven't been doing a lot of horribly interesting stuff in Minecraft. With the holidays, (I got a Wii U for Christmas!) I have been more or less busy, but I digress. Back to today's topic!

If you haven't heard of Feed the Beast, it is a Minecraft mod pack containing a lot of technical mods. By technical, let's say it is a mod pack that adds a lot of blocks and items useful for building various machines of your own invention.  I saw Sethbling's let's play of FTB, and decided I wanted to try it. Since then, I have been playing a lot of Feed the Beast, so I decided to start doing the occasional machine showcase.

Today's machine is a bee farm for the bees from the Forestry(?) mod.

Here's a basic image of it.


All the apiaries have the same setup, so I'll use the meadow bee apiary as an example.


Anything produced by the apiary will be sucked out by that wooden pipe with the redstone engine attached. The diamond pipe will filter out any bees and send them to that loop in the back. The diamond pipe back there is only used to make the bees go into the apiary as a priority if there's room for their type. (All the bees in the pipe are drones.) When a queen dies, it will output a princess of its type, and at least one drone. The offspring will enter the loop. When a princess enters, it will almost immediately enter the apiary to mate with a drone, producing a new queen.

Back on the main pipe intersection, any combs and whatnot go right, through the golden pipe for a speed boost. In case you were wondering, the iron pipe is just to make sure that any output won't go the wrong way, and I am too lazy to set filters on the diamond pipes.

Next, any combs will enter this pipe, and then a centrifuge. The chest is just to filter any extra items out (like the sugar my valiant bees produce) and keep them from blocking the centrifuges. The extra output will enter the chest in the floor.


The chest in the back is an overflow chest for if both centrifuges are full. Items are immediately pumped back out in case a centrifuge finishes.

This is the other side of the centrifuges. Beeswax and what else combs produce go into the chest in the center of the screenshot. Honey goes to the chest behind the comb product chest to be autocrafted into honey slices.


Here's my turtle-powered wheat farm. I consider the whole setup I'm showcasing a honey slice factory. Gee, I sure wish I had more efficient bees. I'll start cross-breeding soon. Maybe I'll get some.
The turtle is programed to run back and forth planting wheat, grow it with bone meal, and  harvest it.
It deposits it in a chest. Then, the wheat and extra seeds will be transferred to the comb products chest. When there is enough wheat, the first autocrafting table (furthest to the left) will turn it into bread. It then goes to the second autocrafting table's chest to await being turned into honey slices.


Hey, guys! What time is it? You have five seconds.






It's time for the impromptu random bonus screenshot of the day!

This is screenshot Fire_Cat2000 took of a chicken getting burned by a thermal discouragement beam from the Portal Gun mod.


My caption: Here, seen for the first time is the Aperture Science Discouraged Chicken! 

Anyway, almost at the end of this post. I wanted to show you guys my new skin! It is a Magma cube skin. It's not permanent. Think of it as an alternative skin of mine.


Wanna try it? Here's the skin file. To grab it, right click it and select "save image as".
Pro tip: You can grab anyone's skin with this link. www.minecraft.net/skin/(player name).png








Well, that's all for today! As always, feedback/comments are appreciated, and thanks for stopping by my blog!
See you all next post. Until then!