Liquids

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Moving Liquids

Liquids can be a bit confusing to some players. This part of the guide will explain how you can move liquids around to other devices. Lets start with something simple, putting liquid in a pipe. The pump can collect water from a water source and place it into a liquid pipe directly above it. It will stop doing this though once the liquid pipeline is full of water.

The pump is at the bottom of the pipeline here, it pushes water into the pipeline because it has a liquid pipe above it.

The pipeline color is based on the liquid stored in it!

Now that we have water in the pipes, how do we get the water out of the pipes? Well we have to use a Liquid Junction, this can hold liquids like pipes can, but they never let a device push liquid into it. Instead they will try to push liquid into the adjacent devices if they accept that liquid. In the picture below we are simply storing the water into a liquid silo.

You can see the liquid junction is to the right of the liquid silo, that allows the pipes to store liquid in it. If it was a normal pipe, the liquid work not move into the liquid silo!

Lets say you want to get liquid out of the silo, well if we use what we learned from above, you just need to place a liquid pipe anywhere next to the silo. So in the image below we have placed some pipes that the liquid silo can push its contents into, since its a liquid pipe not a liquid junction. The water in the example below is taken out of the silo and placed into the boiler.

The liquid silo has a liquid pipe to its left, it can push liquid into it. It never pushes it liquids to the right because that pipe is a liquid junction! After the silo pushed its liquid into the pipe to the left, the boiler is able to take that water because has a liquid junction to its right!

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Obtaining Pipes

Both Liquid Pipes and Junctions can be crafted at the Crude Assembler. These are unlocked after researching liquid transport! Despite what the recipe says, you don't have to use andesite walls, you can use granite or diorite walls as well! Though note that liquid pipe lines will not mix. So a granite pipe next to a andesite pipe is not connected, despite how it may visually look.

A crude assembler crafting liquid pipes.

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Liquid Valve

You can drain a pipeline using a liquid valve, this is useful if you accidently put the wrong liquid in a pipe line you built. It can also be used for simply getting rid of a liquid. To use this, it needs to be attached to a Liquid Junction.

The Liquid Junction block has a Liquid Valve attached to it, pulling it down will drain the pipe line!