Pipe not working correctly (not bug, read below) | Channel37 | Page 1

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:38 PM

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Got a setup at oil rig, where I have 10 oil tank on land and 20 on ship. I expected to have the on-screen setup fill ym shipbound tanks first, then when all full, it would start filling the land ones, but it still equalizes:

The tank on land should be empty, and only happens if I set the cables coming out from the ship extender is set to pull from landside, and the single land->ship cable set to only go toward ship won't overwrite the equal from land. If need more explanation, please @ me and I show via sharing.

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 6:42 PM

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@plucky minnow Could you just show me how you have the hoses on that extender set up, please?

No need to share, just send a screenshot please

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Basically, I need to have an idea of where those 10 "on land" tanks are, and how they're connected to the pumpjack,

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:45 PM

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everything on equalize, only the one cable going from that to the ship set to "go to ship", let me screenshot again, with visible animation

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~~doesn't let me post more pic~~ ah, 1 min slow time

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 6:47 PM

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Okay, no problem, so the way I understand your explanation, it is acting appropriately based on how you have it set up.

That cable set to "go to ship" does NOT mean that it has priority over the tanks on the land, it just means that the stuff on the ship, can't pump back onto the POI.

So if everythign else is set to equalize, it's going to go to the land and ship tanks equally.
Does that makes sense?

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:49 PM

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Then is there a way for my expectation? To refill my tanks, THEN rig starts to fill local tanks, so when I come next, I can drain them quickly

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 6:50 PM

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Not exactly, not without having to flip a switch to tell it "only fill my tanks"

Sec, I'ma put something together in Paint really quickly to explain

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:51 PM

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I understand, no problem. Let me try sonething

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I got an idea, and it's hilariously easy:

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 6:53 PM

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It sounds like you basically have this setup.

This doesn't prevent the oil pumpjack from going to the POI tanks, it just stops the stuff from going from the BOAT to the POI.

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:54 PM

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now that tank slowly draining, that means it would go empty in time, with all the landlocked ones, then if can't send more to ship, then it starts to refill

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 6:55 PM

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If you temporarily set it up THIS WAY when you want to fill up your boat... It will force the pumpjack AND the stuff in your POI tanks to flood into your boat... you'll take everything on the boat, and then you can just flip it back.

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:56 PM

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See, that the ship and land now not equal? That's proof, that it works. And all I had to do is move the down cable into the tank and adjust the tank->conector to one-way

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 6:57 PM

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Yep, that works, it accomplishes the same thing, if I understand the rest of your set up correctly.

AWESOME WORK!

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 6:57 PM

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I keep this here for others, or you can move to somewhere to free up clutter

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Pipe not working correctly (not bug, read below)

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It also works if just one cable directional: the tank->land extender, so no need to adjust the land extender->ship extender one from equalize

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 7:05 PM

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Yep, agreed

feral pawn Dec 4, 2025, 7:49 PM

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The middle pipeline, when set to input or output, actually functions as a check valve. So if you want the ship to be prioritized for input, what you need to do is set the land-based oil tank socket to output.

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In my setup, I have dedicated output tanks — six of them are specifically for supplying the ship’s oil reservoirs, while all the other tanks remain in equalize mode

plucky minnow Dec 4, 2025, 8:37 PM

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that's too complicated 😄 my setup is daisy chain the oil tanks, and set the last output from oil tank to force out, that will drain all. If you want to keep some, change a middle one's to directional

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effectively only need one extender at the very end.

last patio Dec 4, 2025, 8:50 PM

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It's the same principle, he's just trying to show you the cracked out version 🤣

feral pawn Dec 4, 2025, 10:38 PM

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plucky minnow that's too complicated 😄 my setup is daisy chain the oil tanks, and set the las...

You don’t need to set up six tanks for output — just the one shown in your picture is enough. My setup was designed to maximize transfer speed, since I have 30 oil tanks on my ship, but you don’t need to do that. So just use the oil tank in your picture, set its dedicated output socket to output, and the middle pipelines can stay in equal mode without any problem.

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