I cannot, for the life of me, understand liquids. If something says 10m head lift, that means it can go up 10m, right? RIGHT? it doesn’t. It stalls on a 4m foundation. I’m so frustrated. I shove pumps everywhere and still nothing works. I even have 2 pipes next to each other but one works and the other doesn’t! ARRRGGHHHH

I’m JUUUUUUUUUST about to package everything and conveyor belt it.

  • absGeekNZ
    71·
    4 hours ago

    Got to remember to look at the c/ before having a WTF moment.

    I was like, my dude water you know one of the essential things keeping you alive is a liquid.

  • Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Normal water extractors have head lift. You do not need a pump directly in front of it, if you are having issues try moving your pumps further away. After troubleshooting, flush your liquids. Hope it helps.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    4 hours ago

    One thing that might be fucking you over is bugs. Both ceiling and wall sockets can cause pipeline flow bugs - I switched to using only:

    • Default (not clean) mk1/2 pipes
    • Pumps mk1/2
    • Valves
    • Intersections
    • Pipe supports (the default thing when building pipelines)
    • Pipe wall supports
    • Stackable pipeline supports

    I never touch wall/ceiling sockets and have had to fully destroy networks that got into a bugged state because of them, and I just clip my pipes through walls when necessary.

    I also try quite hard to never lift fluids as pumps can bug the fuck out - so I’ll usually build factories at grade or pump water down from elevated reservoirs (like the crater lakes).

    Fluids are super broken IMO due to some rare but devastating bugs and the extremely limited pipe throughput… I’d personally rather they just treated them as solids using conveyor belts than the state they’re in right now.