Category:Fluid Pumps

Fluid pumps are Buildings in the Water tool group. They create Goods from Fluids or move and filter Fluids.

Water Pumps

These pumps produce drinkable Water from flowing Water.

Pump	Faction	Cost	Pumping depth
Water Pump	Folktails	12 Logs	2
Large Water Pump	Folktails	20 Logs 5 Gears 10 Treated Planks	4
Deep Water Pump	Iron Teeth	12 Logs	6

Badwater Pumps

These pumps extract Badwater from contaminated fluids.

Pump	Faction	Cost	Pumping depth
Badwater Pump	Folktails	20 Logs 10 Gears 5 Metal Blocks	2
Deep Badwater Pump	Iron Teeth	20 Logs 10 Gears 5 Metal Blocks	6

Mechanical Fluid Pumps

Behavior

Mechanical Fluid Pumps are structures that use Power to pump fluids from one side to the other across a barrier. This allows for both filtering and raising fluids.

Unlike regular Water Pumps, Mechanical Fluid Pumps do not create Water or Badwater goods. Mechanical Fluid Pumps stop moving fluids when the fluid level on the discharge side is 0.1m below its spout.

If the output is a 1-wide canal, it creates a flow of 0.5 cms when fully powered. However, as of experimental version 1.0 of the game, the flow is reduced to 0.25 cms.

Mechanical Fluid Pumps can be set to pump:

only clean water,
only badwater,
or any fluid at its current water quality.

Setting it to pump a specific quality of fluid makes Mechanical Fluid Pumps function like water purifiers or badwater concentrators.

When not actively pumping, Mechanical Fluid Pumps do not draw power. This occurs when the fluid levels reach the limits at the output side, the input runs out of applicable fluids, or the building is paused.

Construction

The main 1x3 body, excluding the pipes, functions like a row of Levees, walling off fluid and allowing it to be better embedded in a long levee. The blocks under the pipes must be at a lower level than where the pump being built.

Construction chain
Forester plants Trees. Lumberjack Flag fells Trees to produce Logs. Lumber Mill \| Industrial Lumber Mill turn Logs into Planks Gear Workshop turns Planks into Gears Tapper's Shack gathers Pine Resin from Pine Wood Workshop turns Planks and Pine Resin into Treated Planks Mine \| Efficient Mine turn Treated Planks into Scrap Metal Smelter turns Scrap Metal into Metal Blocks

Power

Mechanical Fluid Pumps accept Power from either base end block on all exposed sides as well as from below any of the three base blocks.

Comparison

Pump	Faction	Cost	Pumping depth	Consumption
Mechanical Water Pump	Folktails	100 Gears 50 Metal Blocks 50 Treated Plank	4	700 hp
Deep Mechanical Water Pump	Iron Teeth	100 Gears 50 Metal Blocks 50 Treated Plank	6	700 hp

History

Update 6 ; Mechanical fluid pump maximum pipe length increased to 5 blocks from 3 blocks.
Update 5: Mechanical Water Pump renamed to Mechanical Fluid Pump.

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