heated pipes make heat

[royal girder]

cool mechanic! is it done through scripting, or something else?

[jagged bobcat]

It basically creates invisible heat pipes under normal pipes, and matches their temperatures to the pipe temperature

[royal girder]

interesting, does it just apply to pipes or machines as well?

[jagged bobcat]

machines as well

Look at the turbine in the video

[royal girder]

ahhhh i see

[humble saddle]

This should be how it works in the base game ...

[jagged bobcat]

Yes it should!

[royal girder]

Make a forum request!

[supple root]

Does it draw the energy from somewhere? Or is it free heating?

I thought about creating this mod too, but didnt know how to solve this

[royal girder]

You can probably just set heat pipe heat value

[pulsar brook]

Doing this properly in the base game would mean the fluids in the pipe cool down... Which some recipes may not like lol.

[viscid current]

well first only make it happen with steam only? and make it optional for the others? as in default it does nothing but with an extra option you could add it if its required.

[surreal bear]

Sounds like an additional challenge/constraint to work around! Recipes can accept a range of temperatures so some leeway can be given. If your fluids are cooling too much, don't transport them so far! Or add a heat pipe next to it. Or mods can add a reheating machine (boiler prototype can do this
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/prototypes/BoilerPrototype.html#mode )

[viscid current]

I can imagine the pipes for this planet would be more expensive , on purpose? just for something to be able to contain the heat from the steam. If the planet is meant to be extra hard.

[jagged bobcat]

Thanks for the ideas 🙂