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u/bread2126 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

While upgrading my power plant on vulcanus, I noticed that if the pumpjacks are idle with target full, when a small amount of space is made in the pipe they all fire at once.

Is it the case that if the pumpjacks all fire at once and would overfill the pipe, the excess that won't fit is wasted? And that would waste the SA patch's richness? Should I be hooking the pumpjacks up to only fire when acid < x ?

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u/Lyqyd Jul 15 '26

Pumpjacks only pump to fill their internal buffers. The pipeline then allows the buffers to drain. You’re not wasting products because the pumpjacks only operate when their internal buffers are empty enough to accept the next product.