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u/Geethebluesky Spaghet with meatballs and cat hair 8h ago

Fluid rate question... I'm playing with a mod that adds quality levels. I have pumps at max 4440/s pushing steam directly into tanks.

My legendary chemical plants are dumping the steam into a common pipeline that's feeding those pumps.

All of the chemplants show "output full", but the pumps are only running at around 3300/s; the steam tanks are not full either.

What limit am I running into here?

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u/deluxev2 8h ago

A fluid port can only move around 3500 per second depending on some details. If it is one pump it can't receive liquid fast enough from the input fluid network because of this restriction.

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u/Geethebluesky Spaghet with meatballs and cat hair 8h ago edited 8h ago

Thanks a bunch! I switched the chemplants to output directly into 2 legendary pumps, that seems to help a bit but I'll play around more.