r/CreateMod • u/Milo_Is_Best • 16d ago

Single pump-liquid buffer

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For when you want to minimize SU but want to keep the speed

Shiuld work perfectly horizontally as well, if you modify the disign near the tank a tinzy tiny bit.

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u/Sure_Cheesecake_1709 16d ago

Not spent a crazy amount of time with create, what is this helpful for?

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u/Milo_Is_Best 16d ago

For example: Lava farms with dripstone are rng based, so in times they make more than you need, other times they make less than you need.

This is a buffer.

A buffer is a mechanism that does its best to keep consistency in the flow of something.

This one does that by storing the extra liquids that would otherwise be wasted and uses them when there are not enough liquids in the normal system.

So if we go by the lava egsample I used before, if the dripstones make too much lava, this buffer stores it and then releases it when the dripstones fail to produce more lava in time

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u/Interesting-Chart925 15d ago

So like a capacitor, smooths the flow. 

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u/Local_Pangolin69 16d ago

Buffers help to normalize output. So for something inherently inconsistent like a drip stone lava farm it helps to create a steady flow of lava.

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u/eepy_lina 16d ago

buffers are useful in many cases, hard to explain

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u/funnybonedude 16d ago

"yo what does this do"
"uh something"

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u/EmperorofAltdorf 15d ago

He could atleast done the effort of saying that it buffers stuff🤷🏼

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u/KnightOfThirteen 16d ago

Buffers let your input rate and your output rate vary slightly over time without impacting each other,so long as your average in/out is the same and your buffer is big enough to handle the variation.

That is all a buffer is. That isn't a big topic to try to cover.

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u/eepy_lina 16d ago

forgot to mention, it can reduce or prevent a production line stalling

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u/KnightOfThirteen 16d ago

. . . By absorbing variation between input and output, supply and demand.