Move items from BD to world without player involvmenet?

[cam94509]

That is to say, is it possible to move an item from the BD inventory into, say, a stream of water, without going in and removing the items myself? If so, how? I've gone through the wiki, and nothing about how to do so is mentioned, but from the videos, it looks like it must be possible, but I can't figure out how. Is it possible, and how?

[Azdoine]

It's a dispenser, man. How do you think you eject an item?

[jonny_AB]

I'm pretty sure he means without placing the block, rather, spitting the block out in item form.
And at the moment, no, there is not.

[cam94509]

It's a dispenser, man. How do you think you eject an item?

Derp, I suppose I phrased my question wrong. I meant as in "I have a block. I break the block with the BD. That block is now an item in the BD's inventory. Obviously, if I apply a red stone signal, out will pop... a block, which isn't terribly useful for transport or storage purposes. Is there a way to remove said blocks in item form from the BD without placing them as blocks in the world, or manually removing them"? (Sadly, due to title restrictions, what I actually meant was anything but clear.)
Edit: Thank you jonny_AB

[LordOrmas]

The only thing that pops in my mind is using pistons to move the block to another BD that acts as a some sort of chest... It's not always applicable and i'm not sure if this really solves your problem though.

edit: OR you could always use mining charges, if i'm not mistaken they transform every block in a 3x3 cube in front of them into their item form. But still, not much practical :P.

[cam94509]

The only thing that pops in my mind is using pistons to move the block to another BD that acts as a some sort of chest... It's not always applicable and i'm not sure if this really solves your problem though.

Well... It won't always work in some cases, but it works for what I need it for.

[Sarudak]

Derp, I suppose I phrased my question wrong. I meant as in "I have a block. I break the block with the BD. That block is now an item in the BD's inventory. Obviously, if I apply a red stone signal, out will pop... a block, which isn't terribly useful for transport or storage purposes. Is there a way to remove said blocks in item form from the BD without placing them as blocks in the world, or manually removing them"? (Sadly, due to title restrictions, what I actually meant was anything but clear.)
Edit: Thank you jonny_AB

By the way this is intentionally difficult/impossible. Turning a block to an item in an automated system is very powerful and FC thus places restrictions on it to keep things interesting.

[Rianaru]

Can't you break the BD holding the item with another BD to make it drop its entire inventory?
It's the trick that a lot of people use for unloading minecarts currently.

[Foxy Boxes]

It's the trick that a lot of people use for unloading minecarts currently.

Actually, IIRC, that's the specially coded mechanic that a lot of people use, and thus doesn't apply to BDs.

[Stormweaver]

edit: OR you could always use mining charges, if i'm not mistaken they transform every block in a 3x3 cube in front of them into their item form. But still, not much practical :P.

As far as I'm aware, this is the only way to do it. I'm assuming the OP wants a cobble/stone gen that outputs to a chest - there used to be ways of doing it, but they were removed simply because of the silly size the generators ended up being. Pretty sure we had one guy build a 50k/min one at some point...

but yeah. Only way to do it is to hit the BD with a mining charge, recycle the BD into a BD, place a new BD, repeat.

[LordOrmas]

It's the trick that a lot of people use for unloading minecarts currently.

Actually, IIRC, that's the specially coded mechanic that a lot of people use, and thus doesn't apply to BDs.

Yes, if you do that with a BD the inventory content will disappear, and when the second dispenser reposition the first one, it won't mantain the direction it was facing before.

[Rianaru]

My bad. I thought I remembered it working with BDs at some point, but I guess not.

[LordOrmas]

My bad. I thought I remembered it working with BDs at some point, but I guess not.

It probably was so, until FC noted that it was in fact too easy and removed that functionality.

[Psion]

Can't you break the BD holding the item with another BD to make it drop its entire inventory?
It's the trick that a lot of people use for unloading minecarts currently.

i tried that a while back, and it just wiped the first BD's inventory. nothing spilled out. you can try it yourself, but id advise against putting anything valuable inside when testing. ;x

[Caboose]

If I recall correctly, BDs used to drop their inventories like chests/chest carts do, but this was exploited to create ridiculously fast and efficient cobble/ice farms, and BDs were changed to delete their inventories when sucked into another BD in order to remove the exploit.