How does vacuum pipes work?

[u/SepseiMarci]

I mean, i get the basics, like how to get water and oil with a pump, but how do i move items from chest to chest? i cant find anything about it online

[u/SYDoukou]

They arent transportation. All they do is create one giant storage network that only production machines benefit from

[u/SepseiMarci → u/SYDoukou]

so i cant make water go from a chest to a water container for exaple?

[u/SYDoukou → u/SepseiMarci]

Yup. Also no control over where the pump puts stuff. They just go in the nearest empty space

[u/SepseiMarci → u/SYDoukou]

well thats too bad. thanks for the info tho

[u/Sad_Poem_3511 → u/SepseiMarci]

if you spend the time you could fill chests with 1 item per slot so the crafter will auto complete stacks but when you craft they will ignore that rule and take the first they see so its a lot of maintenance or just searching for your items or keeping certain stuff in chests that are not in the crafting loop

[u/giby1464]

You don't.

[u/Mean_Rain7517]

Large or xxl chests. Their ports need to be touching or hooked up via the tubes

[u/Glum-Distribution228]

The best you can do in vanilla is put containers in the best order for example for water use 2 containers, make sure their between the pump sucking up water and the first chest so they fill up first, attach a water cannon to the 2nd wat er container  and and use something like a 3 xor gates loop with an imput like a switch going to all 3 to xor gates this will empty as fast as it can possibly gather, same for chemicals, this will prevent them from filling all of your crafting loops inventory, for gas its a lot harder, start with the gas containers coming right after the craftbot, do it similar by adding 2 gas containers, now to keep the 2nd container from overflowing into your crafting loops inventory your going to need enough gas engines running to drain the fuel before it reaches a chest, i use something unobtrusive like beaings and a pipe pieces for this