I try to build a tower for fuel generators. I could get 4 generators at the bottom running. The fuel is inserted from the top and splitted 2 times to support the 4 generators. But now I would add another 4 generators on top of the existing 4.

But what ever I try, I don’t get the fuel pump high enough. According to the height of a generator, the next floor is 4 walls above the current floor. If im right, this is 16 meters and pump mk II should pump 20 meters. But it doesn’t work.

Has someone a idea?

  • milkisklim
    3·
    15 hours ago

    You could always throw it into a packager lift up the bottles unpackage at the top and then return the bottles to start the process anew.

    JK

    But I did watch a video once where a guy took a cargo train and loaded with liquid water and brought it up to near world max height to then flow down all throughout his factory.

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 day ago

    you need to place a pump just before you run out of head lift (normal buildings have ~4m I think)

    you can see the head lift of the pump itself with the build menu hologram

    • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      Hmm i never noticed a visual indicator for the head lift. I can see the blue hologram and some sort of “waves” starting from the pump hologram. Assume, I have build a industrial tank on the bottom, 0 meter’s above the ground. From there the pipeline starts straight upwards, for example 20 meter’s. Where should I place the first mk II pump? At 3 meter’s or later?

      • Euphorazine@lemmy.world
        3·
        24 hours ago

        You can only see the blue headlift indicator when placing a pump after another pump. There isn’t a baseline headlift indicator unfortunately.

        Buildings supposedly have a 12m headlift as opposed to their advertised 10m headlift so have a little forgiveness.

        Best indicator is to place and power your pump. If it’s not actively pumping, then it’s too high.

        Also, pump mk ll is 50m, mk l is 20m :)

      • leverage@lemdro.id
        2·
        24 hours ago

        Unless you’re power starved, just place your first pump near the output, don’t waste time trying to save a few meters. After that, the next pump will snap to place where the last pumps headlift runs out. I read somewhere that the indicator won’t show if it’s more than 100m away horizontally, didn’t have to test that situation myself though.

  • Tarogar@feddit.org
    3·
    1 day ago

    Pump powered? Pump pointing the right way? Pump low enough that it’s still in headlift from a previous pump?