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Shaio

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Piping vertial piping
« on: May 31, 2010, 07:13:33 pm »
Currently pipe pieces are just used for screw pumps, and nothing else, I'd love to be able to lay down piping, and vertical piping the way we do axles, it'd certainly make alot of waterworks alot easier, not to mention all the new nightmares that could pop up with piping running through your fortress, leaks, monsters bashing the wrong thing.
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blazzano

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Re: Piping vertial piping
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2010, 07:23:15 pm »
That could be fun.  You'd let the pipes carry water under pressure (with that pressure being provided by either a connected pump, or the simple gravity of a source that's higher up than the outlet).

Similarly, a water or magma pump stack would require fewer pumps, with the remainder of the liquid path being handled by simple vertical pipes.  A long water pump stacks might require just a few pumps, whereas pumping magma might require a pump every few floors, or something.
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EyeOfNundinate

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Re: Piping vertial piping
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2010, 07:39:02 pm »
Pipes have been suggested before, not only that,  there are a a variety of pipes including pressure equalizers, and in-pipe pumps.
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JohnLukeG

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Re: Piping vertial piping
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2010, 01:02:19 am »
I want you to be able to build pipes like other constructions.  You would be able to set an orientation.  For example, if you set it to up/down, water on that tile cannot flow to the left or right (or diagonally).
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Re: Piping vertial piping
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2010, 04:18:54 am »
Quote from: JohnLukeG on June 01, 2010, 01:02:19 am
I want you to be able to build pipes like other constructions.  You would be able to set an orientation.  For example, if you set it to up/down, water on that tile cannot flow to the left or right (or diagonally).

As EyeOfNundinate said, this is a popular suggestion.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=37101.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5682.0 (includes comment from Toady)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=56541.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=19863.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=5770.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=30857.0
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=3450.0

It was also a dev item in the old dev item system:

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# Bloat316, PIPE SECTIONS, (Future): Square-filling pipes sections that you can place and walk inside and hook together over many tiles and fill with fluids and stuff.

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