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How to get liquids high enough? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/satisfactory
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I try to build a tower for fuel generators. I could get 4 generators at the bottom running. The fuel is inserted from the top and splitted 2 times to support the 4 generators. But now I would add another 4 generators on top of the existing 4.

But what ever I try, I don't get the fuel pump high enough. According to the height of a generator, the next floor is 4 walls above the current floor. If im right, this is 16 meters and pump mk II should pump 20 meters. But it doesn't work.

Has someone a idea?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

you need to place a pump just before you run out of head lift (normal buildings have ~4m I think)

you can see the head lift of the pump itself with the build menu hologram

[–] Badeendje 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Normal buildings have 10m. It is in the building descriptions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

right, yeah 4m seemed a bit too low

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Hmm i never noticed a visual indicator for the head lift. I can see the blue hologram and some sort of "waves" starting from the pump hologram. Assume, I have build a industrial tank on the bottom, 0 meter's above the ground. From there the pipeline starts straight upwards, for example 20 meter's. Where should I place the first mk II pump? At 3 meter's or later?

[–] Euphorazine 3 points 22 hours ago

You can only see the blue headlift indicator when placing a pump after another pump. There isn't a baseline headlift indicator unfortunately.

Buildings supposedly have a 12m headlift as opposed to their advertised 10m headlift so have a little forgiveness.

Best indicator is to place and power your pump. If it's not actively pumping, then it's too high.

Also, pump mk ll is 50m, mk l is 20m :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Unless you're power starved, just place your first pump near the output, don't waste time trying to save a few meters. After that, the next pump will snap to place where the last pumps headlift runs out. I read somewhere that the indicator won't show if it's more than 100m away horizontally, didn't have to test that situation myself though.