Fluid Buffer

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A Fluid Buffer is a building used to store fluids, behaving similar to a Pipeline but with much higher storage capacity. It has 2 fluid connectors which are both non-directional. Similar-sized fluid buffers are stackable on each other.

Variants
It comes with 2 sizes:
 * The smaller stores 400 m.
 * The larger stores 2400 m.

The larger variant stores 6 times as much, but it takes up 8.17 times as much space. Therefore, the larger variant is less space effective.

Flushing
Similar to Pipelines, flushing can be performed to delete all the contained fluid by interacting with it (default ). There are 2 modes:
 * 'This buffer only' flushes only the content in the selected buffer.
 * 'Entire pipe network' flushes the fluid in all the connected pipelines and buffers.

Head lift

 * Fluid buffers require head lift equivalent to the height of the buffer from the previous Pipeline to be filled up. For example, the small buffer needs 8m of head lift to be filled and the larger buffer needs 12m head lift.
 * Insufficient head lift will cause the buffer to only get partially filled.
 * The head lift output is identical to the head lift provided, but since the fluid height level in the buffer and in the pipeline behind the buffer are the same, the buffer first needs to fill up enough to also rise in the pipeline, which may take some time.
 * For example, a half-full fluid buffer has a fluid height level of 4m (half of the 8m height of the buffer), a 3/4 full big buffer one of 9m (3/4 the 12m height of the buffer).
 * Thereby, a rise higher than the buffer itself renders it useless without a pump behind it because the buffer always has to be full or the fluid won't rise to the top of the pipe behind the buffer. Further, any rise behind the buffer renders a portion of the buffer equivalent to the height risen by the pipeline useless because this part has to be full the whole time.

History

 * Patch 0.3.4.0: The larger Industrial Fluid Buffer is now 2400 m. The smaller variant of Industrial Fluid Buffer is renamed to Fluid Buffer and holds 400 m.
 * Patch 0.3: Introduced