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Understanding universal pipes

MikaelS111 opened this issue ยท 5 comments

commented

Hiya!

First off - great mod! I love it's simplicity, yet it is advanced when you dig into it.

I am playing around with Industrial Foregoing (FE from now on) and want to use the Universal pipes to get energy to machines (The machine can work without power, but is more efficient with) but also extract the content from them.

This causes some strange behaviour, so I would love some insightful suggestions to where I'm doing wrong.

  1. As generator for power, I am using the Stirling Generator from Thermal Series. Coal is the fuel. No biggie here. Pipe is set to extract here with no upgrade.
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  2. I then have a Fluid Extractor from FE that will extract latex from trees. It gets power from the Stirling straight in.
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  3. A block Placer from FE provides the tree. It gets power from the Stirling straight in.
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  4. As you can see, power in the Fluid Extractor is full.
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  5. I want to extract the latex into the Latex Processing Unit from FE.
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  6. In order to do that, I need to shift-right click with the wrench on the pipe on the Fluid Extractor in order to set it to extract.
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  7. However, when I do this, The fluid is transferred fine but the power is drained to 0 in the Fluid Extractor. (this is it going down)
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  8. I've tried with an Ultimate Pipe Upgrade, but no matter what I set the "item pipe" or the "energy pipe" to, nothing makes the power come in.

So how do I proceed from here?

  • Yes, I could just have the pipe go out from the other side, but that kind of makes the universal pipe obsolete (to me at least).

Kind Regards,
Mikael

commented

If you extract from a side, you can't put stuff in. You need to connect it on another side.

commented

If you extract from a side, you can't put stuff in. You need to connect it on another side.

Hm ok. Then I'm missing the point of universal pipes. Is that just for extracting then?

commented

If you set a side to extract, it can only extract.
The difference to the other pipes is that it can handle every type (Items, energy, fluid, gasses)

commented

If you set a side to extract, it can only extract.
The difference to the other pipes is that it can handle every type (Items, energy, fluid, gasses)

Ok, it does makes sense. If you have a machine that outputs both fluid and items, then you can have 1 extraction point instead of 2.

Thanks for the clarification :)

commented

No problem :)