Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-173.71.27.18-20130207114635

I have an automated ore processing and sorting system set up in my SMP world, but I have discovered something that might be a problem. I have an ore processing "substation", separate from the main sorting system, that macerates ores, smelts them, and crafts them into blocks. It also crafts redstone and nikolite into blocks before sending all the finished blocks back to the main sorting array.

I currently have the ore blocks and redstone/nikolite dusts pass through a sorting machine to recieve separate color tags. The ores go to the macerator, and the dusts bypass the macerator, but all go into the same relay that goes into a second sorter which separates the macerated ores from the dusts, sending the dusts to automated crafting tables to be formed into blocks and the macerated ore dusts to a furnace to be smelted.

I left it running, and within 15 minutes, I found macerated ores sitting in the input slot of my macerator.

I need to know what order items passing through RedPower tubes consider destinations to be valid. I have a restriction tube set to come off the relay, but is it possible that untagged items can consider a painted pipe a valid destination before it considers a restriction tube? Can untagged items even pass through painted tubes? 