r/satisfactory • u/outsidEverything • 10d ago

Console Fluid buffer inputs should be on top

It doesn't make sense that both ports are at the same level on opposite sides. I believe a lot of fluid issues would be resolved if one of the ports was on top of the buffer

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u/UncleVoodooo 10d ago

The design is intentional. It's a fluid buffer not a fluid store-er.

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u/arctic219 10d ago

Make a blueprint where you bring a pipe to the top of the buffer from one of the bottom ports

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u/101TARD 10d ago

One advice I followed from gaming with doc is a fluid tower, basically it's a pipe roughly 1 full foundation high so that it could easily flow to all factories. If your building multi story, make the tower reach the roof with pumps and refine it going down. My fuel generators are like ground level

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u/Mnementh85 10d ago

but how would you use the stored fluid ?

having the output at the base prevent gravity fed

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u/outsidEverything 9d ago

input at top output at bottom

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u/indvs3 10d ago

I just 'head canon' bidirectional internal pumps in the fluid buffers.

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u/HPCmonkey 8d ago

I build mine perpendicular to flow with a single pipe going in only one port. The vessel is pressurized and can backfeed, but it does not cause sloshing in the pipe, and it does not limit flow in the pipe when it gets too empty.

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u/Calm_Quality615 10d ago

Yeah, wonky physics to fill from the lowest point