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Pump for speed?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 6:49 pm
by Pascali
hi, can i use a pump to speed up the oil coming from the pumpjack and going to the oilrefinery? Or is there no difference without a pump? Depents this on the distance?
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:06 pm
by Koub
Yes you can, and there is a difference.
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 9:26 pm
by Pascali
thank you. Does a huge distance between pumpjack and oilrefinery make the amout of oil come slower then a short distance?
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 9:39 pm
by Koub
Yes definitely. I think this is still accurate :
https://wiki.factorio.com/Fluid_system#Pipelines
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:37 pm
by Avezo
Pumps absolutely help, but you will be still limited by the amount that is actually pumped by pumpjacks.
Aside from that, you seem to have a somewhat specific issue with your own game. We can help you a lot easier if you post your save file or at least some screenshots.
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:07 pm
by JimBarracus
As a "cheat" to improve the flow you can replace your straight pipes with underground pipes.
They cover 10 tiles but only count as 2.
Just place some large poles and place a pump at each pole.
Connect them with underground pipes and you have much higher flow.
Or it is time to switch to trains.
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:46 pm
by Pascali
JimBarracus wrote:As a "cheat" to improve the flow you can replace your straight pipes with underground pipes.
They cover 10 tiles but only count as 2.
but only with a pump between them? "a full-length section only counts as two pipes in this table, if a pump is placed between each underground section" ->
https://wiki.factorio.com/Fluid_system#Pipelines
Does it make sense, building 5 pumps in a row?
Re: Pump for speed?
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:33 am
by Jap2.0
Pascali wrote:JimBarracus wrote:As a "cheat" to improve the flow you can replace your straight pipes with underground pipes.
They cover 10 tiles but only count as 2.
but only with a pump between them? "a full-length section only counts as two pipes in this table, if a pump is placed between each underground section" ->
https://wiki.factorio.com/Fluid_system#Pipelines
Does it make sense, building 5 pumps in a row?
No, an underground pipe always counts as two pipes. That's just worded poorly (I believe it's trying to say that if you place pumps between every every set of underground pipes, you can get the same throughput as two pipes).