How to get water out of reservoir?

[Ook]

I have a pump the feeds into liquid reservoir. The output of the liquid reservoir goes to a water outlet into a storage tank. When the pump runs dry, the water flow out of the reservoir also stops, and the thing sits there full of water. How do I get the water out of the reservoir? It only seems to output when the pump on the inlet is running.

[Sussex]

A pictures worth a thousand words

[madcow]

It has no place to go, there has to be something wrong with the output side of the reservoir like a blocked pipe, a bridge with the flow going the wrong direction or a gap in your pipes. Liquids will always flow out of a res on its own if it has a path.

[SamuraiJones]

we're kinda guessing without pics... but here's my guess:

liquid resevoirs (and gas) need a pipe on both sides to function. The input pipe doesn't need to go anywhere, but it needs to be there.

Try putting a "pipe" just on the square with the input space. that might do the trick for you.

[Rockman122]

Is the reservoir empty?

[Justine]

Originally posted by SamuraiJones:

we're kinda guessing without pics... but here's my guess:

liquid resevoirs (and gas) need a pipe on both sides to function. The input pipe doesn't need to go anywhere, but it needs to be there.

Try putting a "pipe" just on the square with the input space. that might do the trick for you.

Had the same problem and tried your trick: it worked! thanks!

[CrazyJayBe]

Originally posted by SamuraiJones:

we're kinda guessing without pics... but here's my guess:

liquid resevoirs (and gas) need a pipe on both sides to function. The input pipe doesn't need to go anywhere, but it needs to be there.

Try putting a "pipe" just on the square with the input space. that might do the trick for you.

This worked. I tried draining two to build a wall but even though I had pipes connected to a vent, nothing happened until I installed a pipe dot on the intake ports lol.

Oddly, I had a similar situation making a chlorine room to which I already had three saved up gas res to clean up all the unbreathable gas I ran into early game. Strange thing was I could just yank the pipe off the input and slap it on the output without those same plumbing shenanigans.