Pipes

Water and all other liquids can be distributed through the pipes. The distribution itself doesn't require a power source. It works because of water pressure and water level height.

Pumps can pump the water up to a certain height in case you build them through terrain with different heights. There a plenty of different shapes of pipes allowing you to create the network through any terrain.

You can even put the pipes underground and build objects on top of them. You don't need to dig, just use the magnifying glass in the bottom right menu to scroll through map layers and place the pipes underground. Characters will then build them.

The pipe with a valve allows you to control the flow of liquids through the pipe by closing and opening it.

Here are a couple of rules for how water (and also other liquids) work in the pipes:

• Water needs pressure to flow through pipes, sprinklers, or taps
• The pressure is created by pumps and also objects that show water height in the right window
• The number of the height tells what maximum height can be water distributed by this object
• For example Deep Water Pump shows a heigh 31 which means that water can be pushed up to 31 tiles above
• The length of just a pipe network (without any objects like containers, taps, or sprinklers) at the same level doesn't affect the amount of pressure needed or the speed of distribution
• Flow pump helps to make the pressure higher
• If you have a Deep water pump with a height 31 linearly connected to pipes, the water can be pushed up to 31 tiles above
• But if you put into such a linear network any other object than a pipe it would reset the pressure made by the pump and have the new pressure of this precise object
• Then you need to build the Flow pump at the output of such object to make the pressure higher again if necessary