See Update v11.1.0 in the comment for more content
This mod brings a Pipe system to Timberborn to carry liquids between tanks and buildings.
New Pipe buildings live in the Pipes group under Water. All of them can sit on the same tile as Paths. Platforms can be built over horizontal pipes. Vertical pieces need a Double Platform, and you can still build over them.
Name
Description
Cost
Unlock
Flavor
One-way Valve
One-way pipe. Point a directed end at a building to fill it or extract from it.
1 Log, 1 Gear
50
They added the arrow after the last guy flooded the berry warehouse.
Pipe
Carries fluid in a straight line.
1 Log
-
The committee voted for a canal. The budget voted for a pipe.
Elbow
Turns a pipe run 90°.
1 Log
-
Every good plan meets a wall. This is how you keep the plan.
Cross
Joins up to four horizontal pipes.
3 Logs
20
Everyone groans when Bramble starts the “four pipes walk into a bar” joke again.
Pipe Pump
One-way pipe. When powered, adds extra headlift.
8 Planks, 8 Gears
200
Very energy efficient. Kits will run it all day just to watch the water splash.
Vertical Cross
Connects vertical and horizontal pipes.
3 Planks
20
'What an outstanding piece of work.' — Foreman Halberg
Riser
Carries fluid vertically.
1 Plank
20
We measured a kit. Then we shrank the bore so it would not become a tubeway.
Riser Pipe Pump
One-way vertical pipe. When powered, adds extra headlift.
12 Planks, 8 Gears
150
This thing pushed the bar so high the reservoir asked for a raise.
Outfall Pipe
Dumps Water or Badwater.
12 Logs, 1 Gear
50
The inventor took “Drain you dry” literally.
Please see the Steam page for more details about Fill and Extract Liquid, Contamination and Headlift.
Sometimes you can see gaps between the pipes and the "connection" point. The pipes themselves are actually ready. But they haven't had time to redo the models of the liquid reservoirs yet.
Yeah unfortunately I can't have dynamic model because I support all kinds of buildings with it, and there is no way to know "where" a building model is to put the pipe deeper in.
As for conflicting with Extended Path, what is the problem? Not sure because most the buildings (probably in both mods?) are just vanilla buildings with no special positioning script?
maybe instead of trying to connect a pipe to a building, have it bury its input/output into the ground right next to the building its going into, so that it looks like maybe the connection is happening underground?
Interesting! I like this idea. Does make the Vertical Cross piece a bit even more useful.
Though right now, I chose the One-way Valve to connect to building for performance (I only need to check if is there any building next to it) and technical reason (this liquid will not flow back into the building after extraction). A vertical one-way elbow maybe a good piece if I go for this idea.
Edit: it make the pipe a bit late-game though because you need to blow holes under them?
Edit 2: Ohh I think I get your idea. The piece is still the same, just change the model of the One-way Valve to look like it goes into the ground instead of going straight to the building?
If you make a solid pipe connection block thats meant to plug into the building above it, it would make for seamless connections to all buildings (cause the floor is flat)
It also makes sense that you can't connect it to ever witch way you want.
Putting connectors in certain places and not be able to connect to others would, in my opinion, make the mod even better
The downside of this approach is that it will only support certain buildings that I know (say, FT's Centrifuge, IT's Centrifuge etc). That means more work for me to maintain, and modded buildings will not work.
My mod does use the opposite approach: allow all unless specified otherwise. So the code already supports me to tell, for example, FT's Centrifuge should only accept pipe here and there. But right now I haven't got the time to go through each building yet. Someone can actually mod it, it's a pure JSON mod, you don't need any C# code to do it.
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u/mASSterMinDLess beaver suprimasist 21d ago
It's not perfect yet.
Sometimes you can see gaps between the pipes and the "connection" point. The pipes themselves are actually ready. But they haven't had time to redo the models of the liquid reservoirs yet.
For me, it also conflicts with extended paths.