It's a minor nuisance as to how machines and furnaces are placed and how their input and output faces are rotated. When I place a machine, I have to pay attention if their faces are rotated right, as their I/O faces can be on the left or on the right side. I use the wrench to fix the rotation.
Most machines have their input face on the left, and output face on the right. But the coal generator (energy output on the left) and the energy storage module (input on the right and output on the left) and a few others are exception.
I suggest that when I place a block:
Once you have these rules in mind, it will be more straightforward to place the machines.
Slightly-off: There was a mod called Electric Expansion, which allowed to rotate the I/O faces to whatever direction you wanted, north, south, east, west, top and button. GC could have the same thing but, well, I don't want to over-complicate. ^^
Most machines have their input face on the left, and output face on the right. But the coal generator (energy output on the left) and the energy storage module (input on the right and output on the left) and a few others are exception.
I suggest that when I place a block:
- when it uses only kind of supply, the input face is on the left, and the output face is on the right side;
- when it uses more than one kind of supply, the energy input is on the left, and the air/oil/item input is on the right side;
- refinery: the oil input is on the left, fuel output is on the right, and energy input beneath (not on top, which is for smoke, you may think the cable is about to catch fire)
- electric furnaces: the energy input is on back face, as it was long time ago (1st image). The current setup forces me to waste space as I can't place one furnace next to another because the left side needs to be free for the wire (2nd image), unless by rotating but I need to see the front face because almost all machines share the same side texture. I could stack them too, but still the left side is for wire input.
Once you have these rules in mind, it will be more straightforward to place the machines.
Slightly-off: There was a mod called Electric Expansion, which allowed to rotate the I/O faces to whatever direction you wanted, north, south, east, west, top and button. GC could have the same thing but, well, I don't want to over-complicate. ^^
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