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ds.winchester1979 Jun 10, 2020 @ 10:41am
Multiple Gas Containers
I built a small spaceship that is quite heavy and uses a total of 18 thrusters. The problem is I want to link more than 1 gas canister to keep supplying fuel when 1 runs out. I am unsure how to do this as so far nothing has worked. Any help please or a link to a guide video or something. It would be most appreciated.
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Khelthrai Hellbane Jun 10, 2020 @ 10:56am 
You can't do that. Either not yet or possibly never. You might be able to connect several large chests to the gas container's ports either directly or with vacuum pipes in the future, but right now the game doesn't know you want the container to "pull" from the chest. There's no confirmation, though, so don't hold your breath or anything.
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claytruck Jun 10, 2020 @ 1:54pm 
you can put more to split the trusters between multuble ones
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ds.winchester1979 Jun 10, 2020 @ 2:35pm 
Thanx guys
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Orbnotacus Jun 10, 2020 @ 9:13pm 
Gas, water, and battery containers can be connected together by the green ports on the sides of them. Same as large chests.
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Orbnotacus Jun 10, 2020 @ 9:14pm 
https://scrapmechanic.gamepedia.com/Interactive_Parts

Scroll down to the survival mode exclusive items, and you can see pictures of them all if you want to see what I'm talking about.
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Khelthrai Hellbane Jun 11, 2020 @ 4:58am 
Originally posted by Orbnotacus:
Gas, water, and battery containers can be connected together by the green ports on the sides of them. Same as large chests.
Yeah, but pipes don't pull or push by themselves. Connected containers is useless unless you have either a pump or a crafting station pulling from or towards them. Keep in mind that the whole vacuum pipe system is very incomplete right now. "T" junctions, a priority/filtering feature flow control... there's still a lot missing there, I wouldn't bother trying to design anything that counts on a pipe system so function properly. I say this because I've actually done it, and having to use large chests as Ts is a major pain in the back (your junctions keep items inside them, it's awful).
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❄️The Last Frontier 😊 Feb 26, 2023 @ 3:42pm 
Not sure if you ever solved this issue but get FANT MOD

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2251509391&searchtext=FANT

he has some pump pipes where they act like normal pipes but they have pumps inside so you can have multiple fuel tanks with them all connected to the main tank video these pipes and they pump the fuel into the working tank to keep fuel going. Hard part is balancing all the added weight HA HA
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