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Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?  I can't get water to flow into this system.  There's plenty of water pressure - I've even got two pumps going.  The pumps give the error message "pipe blocked" unless I deconstruct about the Y-joint in the bottom right.

 

 

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Pipes can only flow one direction, if you connect a part of a pipe where it can potentially conflict, it will stall.

Your stall location is the vertical piping that is between the two T-junctions which runs on the ladder. The game cannot determine which direction is your flow.

In terms of multiple loops, a pipe can split flow away or combine flow, however you cannot mix and match split flow or combine flow. In other words, if I have one liquid input source, water pump, I can split as many different pipes away from the pump. If I have one outflow, I can combine as many pipes into that flow (e.g. a liquid vent)

For your situation to work, you need to combine the outflow of the water purifier to unsplit pipe coming from your water pump because both will always flow INTO another object. Assuming your bottom pipe is influx (bottom to top), connecting your water purifier pipe to that pipe before any junction is the solution.

6 minutes ago, CodingKitteh said:

Pipes can only flow one direction, if you connect a part of a pipe where it can potentially conflict, it will stall.

Your stall location is the vertical piping that is between the two T-junctions which runs on the ladder. The game cannot determine which direction is your flow.

In terms of multiple loops, a pipe can split flow away or combine flow, however you cannot mix and match split flow or combine flow. In other words, if I have one liquid input source, water pump, I can split as many different pipes away from the pump. If I have one outflow, I can combine as many pipes into that flow (e.g. a liquid vent)

For your situation to work, you need to combine the outflow of the water purifier to unsplit pipe coming from your water pump because both will always flow INTO another object. Assuming your bottom pipe is influx (bottom to top), connecting your water purifier pipe to that pipe before any junction is the solution.

I also think that is the reason for the water purifier.

One of the users here has done a lot of research about the way pipes function, and how to manipulate the pressure of their contents.  Check out Kasuha's comment regarding the water buffer that he installed.  I use his design on every base I make, and I highly recommend it.

 

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