Underground heat pipe - Factorio Mods

[delicate prawn]

i knew this would eventually be made

[solemn ocean]

it was quite the challenge

[spiral epoch]

Are they pipes?

[solemn ocean]

yes

[spiral epoch]

Nice

The new connection categories are so useful

[solemn ocean]

a lot of pipes, but it works

[solemn ocean]

well i only use that for the player facing graphics, other than that heat pipes visually try to connect even when they have no connector on that side

to avoid dealing with T shaped connectors and stuff i just added the even-odd thing so there's never a pipe of the same name next to it

[spiral epoch]

Yeah of course. But without categories it wouldve connected with pipes is what I mean

[solemn ocean]

yeah unless i used actual belts but i didn't feel like stripping out the belt graphic, and honestly inserters and stuff would probably have gotten confused

but yea, its neat how i could shove this into their own category

[inland arch]

how does this work? The pipes are hidden but provide heat between the areas?

[solemn ocean]

essentially an invisible heat pipe between the two undergrounds that collides with nothing

explaining it like that makes it sound pretty boring but there's quite some tech in that mod

the connecting textures were quite the challenge

[obtuse shadow]

i knew it'd exist some day

[solemn ocean]

and its pulling in several dozens of downloads within hours already, above average my-mod demand

[slow fog]

Will the "underground" heat pipes (either the entrance/exit or the invisible non-colliding pieces) attach to reactors and heat exchangers?

[solemn ocean]

you can place them right up to reactors and exchangers yes

[kind light]

oh shit does the underground section of the pipe also heat things?

[solemn ocean]

yes