Red alert: Entity flipping! New Space Age feature!!

[Awac]

Look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m6bli0LPWI 5:05 mark

Why did i first learn this now!!! damn you Aquilo

Basically you can horizontal and vertical flip entities to align fluid input/output!

[Fel]

You learnt this now because you didn't read the weekly FFFs (the ones starting from august last year were about 2.0 and space age).

It was a requested feature for a while, mods had to add duplicate recipes to recreate this, filling up the crafting screen with many duplicates.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Fel:

mods had to add duplicate recipes to recreate this

I never quite got why they did it that way.
The way Nullius handled it was far more intelligent.

It took the buildings and created copies with the fluid ports in reversed order.
Much better solution, since there's typically less of those and the actual placed entity does not have to correspond to the item-in-inventory.

While that mod initially had recipes to create the flipped variants explicitly, at one point it capitalized on the above by adding flipping as a function the player could execute over any placed building to instantly mine/replace it with its mirror-copy. And if you'd mine the copy, the original item (for the normal building) would be returned to the inventory.