Minecraft Let's Play season 3, Episode 14

Yeah, more "refining phase". Buildcraft will actually arrive on Episode 16... and yes, I could use Logistic Pipes for the automatic sorting system, but look at it my way: I would need the following items to make it work:

• 1 chest in place of the second sorting machine (so I don't need to replace ALL the system, not to mention Logistic Pipes won't work with covers).
• 1 Chassi MK 2 (8 iron bars + 1 logistic pipe each) per chest I want to have connected to the system, plus one (to get the items from the chest substituting the sorting machine).
• At least 1 provider Module (1 gold gear, 4 lapis, 3 redstone, 1 blank module) and 1 Itemsink module (4 cactus green, 1 iron gear, 3 redstone and 1 blank module) OR 1 provider Module and 1 Polymorphic module (4 orange dye, 1 iron gear, 3 redstone and 1 blank module if I remember right) per receiving chest (this would save me the need for two pipes being connected to the storage system). Chests with more than 9 different items to storage will require additional Itemsink modules (and a higher mark of chassi to accomodate it, upping the cost from iron to gold, diamond... or even blocks of both!).
• The ItemSink module on the last chest/miscelaneous junk need to be set up as a default route (easy and free).
•  1 quicksort module (1 diamond gear, 4 lapis, 3 redstone, 1 blank module) and 1 extractor module (1 iron gear, 4 lapis, 3 redstone, 1 blank module) that can be upgraded to a mk2 extractor module (ADD to the cost 1 golden gear). The extractor module will take care of all items not included in the system, sending them to the default route (since the quicksort module won't pull them out).

Remember each blank module is 1/9 of a gold bar (1 gold nugget), 2 redstone and 6 paper, and that you need 2 wooden planks per wooden gear, which is used with 4 cobblestone to make 1 stone gear, which is used with 4 iron to make 1 iron gear, which is used with 4 gold bars to make 1 golden gear, which is used with 4 diamonds to make 1 diamond gear.

And we didn't started counting the investment on the crafting pipes for the automated crafting system! Remember we need 1/4 diamond and 2 golden gears (and 2 redstone torches, plus 2 glass blocks) per 8 logistic pipes...

See why I don't feel guilty for using Equivalent Exchange? ^^