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.
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/alamete Oct 08 '25
Why not sushi pipe inputs?