Industrial Fluid Buffer

An Industrial 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. They are stackable on each other.

Variants
It comes with 2 sizes:
 * The smaller stores 300 m.
 * The larger stores 1200 m.

The larger variant stores 4 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 from the previous Pipeline to be fill up. For example, the small buffer need 8 meters head lift to be filled, and the larger buffer need 12 meters head lift to be filled.
 * Insufficient head lift will cause the buffer to be partially filled.
 * Liquid exiting the buffer at the opposite pipe connector do not provide any head lift, even if the pipe before it has the head lift. In the other words, a liquid buffer resets the head lift to 0 meter.[verification needed]

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