The BuildCraft wiki is rather light on information, but I need to know: is it possible to use a steam engine to extract items from chests or automatic crafting tables without the engine blowing up? If so, how?
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Wooden pipes extract items from chests (and perhaps automatic crafting tables; I haven't tried). Engines can then be attached to the wooden pipe.
I recommend watching the videos on the official YouTube channel to gain a basic, working knowledge of the mod.
5A wooden pipe powered by a redstone engine is all you really need to extract items from chests or auto crafting tables. Using a combustion or steam engine on a wooden pipe is kind of overkill, and I don't think it makes the pipe extract items any faster. And unlike the other engines, redstone engines will never explode so they don't need cooling.
