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raiguard



27 Sep

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Hello,
Today we once again dive head-first into the world of fluids.


Since last time

Back in June, the very same week that we revealed Fluids 2.0 (FFF-416), we were undergoing an in-office LAN party to test the game. As we played, it became apparent that the new system was a little bit too easy. Our Nauvis base had ridiculously huge pipelines that snaked all over the place with little to no thought or structure behind them. We did use some fluid trains to connect particularly distant outposts, but even this was mostly out of habit; a pipeline would have been superior.

Pipe visualization...

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21 Jun

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Hello,
Grab your best lube, because it's time to talk about fluids!


Reaching the breaking point

It is no secret that Factorio's fluid system is unpredictable, unintuitive, and at times, frustrating. Pipe throughput decreases over distance at an inconsistent rate, so the only way to reliably know how much fluid you can push through a pipe is to reference a table on the wiki. Furthermore, the throughput can vary depending on the order that the pipes were built. It is not a fun system to play with.

There have been m...

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