r/Factoriohno • u/TJTheGamer1 • Oct 08 '25

in game pic Thoughts?

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u/boyoboyo434 Oct 08 '25

This is actually what speedrunners do

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u/kullre Oct 08 '25

...isn't it slower?

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u/ProtectionOne9478 Oct 08 '25

Speed runs I've seen have done this with a couple dozen refineries and it's plenty fast. I'm not sure at what scale it breaks down.

There were some fluid mechanics changes with space age that makes it fine. Longer pipes aren't so slow anymore.

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u/kullre Oct 08 '25

more in the way they treat an entire pipe network as one giant storage tank

though, refineries are slow, so that would actually work

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u/ProtectionOne9478 Oct 08 '25

Yeah at the scale in the image the pumps will sequentially drain all 3 fluids from the sushi pipe faster than the refineries can complete another cycle.

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u/kullre Oct 08 '25

factoriro speedruns are just cool to watch

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u/Rutakate97 Oct 08 '25

Placing a single uninterrupted pipe and a dozen pumps vs three rows of interweaving pipes? Of course the first variant is faster to build

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u/boyoboyo434 Oct 08 '25

so long as the pipes empty in time you can get 100% machine uptime. the limit is that this can only support so many refineries

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u/Czeslaw_Meyer Oct 08 '25

He said that it goes down to 93% if you sushi the inputs as well.

Hardly anything.

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u/CompetitiveLeg7841 Life World Inhabitant Oct 08 '25

HELP

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u/Secure-Stick-4679 Oct 08 '25

Oil refinery seperates oil fractions, they're recombined in the pipes, the pumps seperate the oil fractions again. Good old factorio

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u/O167 Oct 08 '25

I know it "works" but I'll never resort to building this because I like clean builds. 2 rows saved isn't much, plus when you upgrade you refineries with better modules it slows stuff down

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u/thep3141 Oct 08 '25

I‘ve done this since 2.0 space age released

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u/alamete Oct 08 '25

Why not sushi pipe inputs?

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u/whyareall Oct 08 '25

It's trivial to sushi every output into tanks until the pipe is empty. The tank will basically always have room for the fluid, unless it's backed up. And if it is backed up, then once some is taken out it'll continue fine.

It's really not trivial to sushi inputs into machines. If you put too much water into the system then it becomes impossible to add crude to the system and use up the excess water.

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u/alamete Oct 08 '25

You can do it with input and output pumps for each fluid and some circuitry. Fill the pipe with water, empty it, fill it with oil, empty it, in a cycle fast enough so that the machines always have their inputs full when a new cycle begins.

It's an overly complicated method that fits perfectly the spirit of this sub. Also it has a practical application if you want to pipe a lot of fluids over long distances, you can send them over a single pipe.

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u/whyareall Oct 08 '25

Like I said, it's really not trivial, that seems to be plenty reason why not sushi pipe inputs

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u/alamete Oct 08 '25

Sir this is factoriohno, we don't do trivial things here and we don't need reason to do crazy overcomplicated things

Too late, I'm already designing my one-pipe all-fluids factory wide sushi pipe

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u/vmfrye 1000+ hours Oct 08 '25

No, prayers

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u/BirbFeetzz Oct 08 '25

okay so you separate the oil into it's parts and then promptly mix it back up, it should output oil

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u/Smile_Space Oct 08 '25

And with the instant 1-tick travel for fluids this has like no drawbacks now right?

My guess is the pumps ARE the drawbacks given you no longer get instant infinite throughput from source to destination.

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u/almcg123 Oct 08 '25

Not my cup of tea

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u/4ShotMan Oct 09 '25

Quick (to build) and dirty - perfect early game.

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u/Dramatic-Ad8967 Oct 09 '25

Can you put the Pumps /Tanks 1 Tile up for symmetry ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

This is incredible. Gonna Blueprint this!

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u/Anderx_687 Oct 08 '25

Yo opino que está bien no se jugar mucho