Auto flusher

[Chorizo]

God knows I need it, would be nice to have an option where the pipe system would auto flush it it overflows. I recently improved my aluminum scrap factory and I have a problem with too much water, I can't be bothered overclocking, making more foundries to use it or setting up another awesome sink to get rid of it. my system gets full of water now and have to flush the pipes every, it's not Satisfactory to do it

[Wolfgang]

What is your exact setup? Are you looping the water from step #2 back to step #1? If you do this then you have to subtract the amount of water you get from step #2 from the water that is being needed in step #1 and set it on the water extractor.

I have my Aluminium production loop the water from step #2 and never had issues with too much water. The only thing you are not allowed to have is too little Bauxite. Because then the water extractor will still pump but no water is being used up.

[Die Hand Gottes]

There is not you should deal with the by-product water that you will have later more often
there are different approaches.
calculate everything exactly and lead the water back into the system or pack it and shred it, but this is the worst way.
or process the whole thing with wet concrete and get rid of the water that way.

[Vectorspace]

As much as it is illogical that we can't dump water, it's unlikely to change because the whole gameplay reason for it is to force us to learn how to deal with byproducts, which is the next challenge at this stage.

Manual flushing is not a long term solution because as your factory grows, there will be more demands on your time.
E.g. my nuclear plant depends on my aluminium plant, so if my aluminium plant dies and I don't notice, eventually my nuclear processing would fail.

There is a mod for a fluid sink I think.

For non-modded methods see my reply in here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/526870/discussions/0/3492005739885182533/

[Chorizo]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

What is your exact setup? Are you looping the water from step #2 back to step #1? If you do this then you have to subtract the amount of water you get from step #2 from the water that is being needed in step #1 and set it on the water extractor.

I have my Aluminium production loop the water from step #2 and never had issues with too much water. The only thing you are not allowed to have is too little Bauxite. Because then the water extractor will still pump but no water is being used up.

It loops back, adjusted water flow to each of alumina solution refinery to be less than needed. It's just such a pain adjusting everything again. once the aluminum scrap refinery can't get rid of the water in the system, it's stuck on idle.

[Chorizo]

Originally posted by Die Hand Gottes:

There is not you should deal with the by-product water that you will have later more often
there are different approaches.
calculate everything exactly and lead the water back into the system or pack it and shred it, but this is the worst way.
or process the whole thing with wet concrete and get rid of the water that way.

it's just such a tedious process. I would rather just setup another awesome sink, to take the scrap in and have the system running normal

[Chorizo]

Originally posted by Vectorspace:

As much as it is illogical that we can't dump water, it's unlikely to change because the whole gameplay reason for it is to force us to learn how to deal with byproducts, which is the next challenge at this stage.

Manual flushing is not a long term solution because as your factory grows, there will be more demands on your time.
E.g. my nuclear plant depends on my aluminium plant, so if my aluminium plant dies and I don't notice, eventually my nuclear processing would fail.

There is a mod for a fluid sink I think.

For non-modded methods see my reply in here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/526870/discussions/0/3492005739885182533/

but still, even just having an open pipe where liquid could flow out at the end of the pipeline would be better than nothing

[Man's Best Friend]

Valves help immensely with loopback setups for fluids. The last time I setup a sloppy alumina and scrap setup it still stalled out after under clocking the water extractor to the correct level, but a valve sorted it out. Valves not only regulate flow, but direction too, which prevents backflow.

[cory20034]

me and my friend were talking about this, we are thinking of taking all the excess water and running it to another factory to feed for fuel, just so its constantly being consumed.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Chorizo:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

What is your exact setup? Are you looping the water from step #2 back to step #1? If you do this then you have to subtract the amount of water you get from step #2 from the water that is being needed in step #1 and set it on the water extractor.

I have my Aluminium production loop the water from step #2 and never had issues with too much water. The only thing you are not allowed to have is too little Bauxite. Because then the water extractor will still pump but no water is being used up.

It loops back, adjusted water flow to each of alumina solution refinery to be less than needed. It's just such a pain adjusting everything again. once the aluminum scrap refinery can't get rid of the water in the system, it's stuck on idle.

Use valves. Prevents any unwanted backflow. You should also check if you have any supply issues with either the bauxite or coal. Because if there is a supply issue with that then your refinery will be running full of water.

Generally what I do with the Aluminium setup: First have the bauxite and coal get to the refineries. Once they are filled up with that, start the water extractors.
Check the numbers multiple times before starting the process.

[Chorizo]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by Chorizo:

It loops back, adjusted water flow to each of alumina solution refinery to be less than needed. It's just such a pain adjusting everything again. once the aluminum scrap refinery can't get rid of the water in the system, it's stuck on idle.

Use valves. Prevents any unwanted backflow. You should also check if you have any supply issues with either the bauxite or coal. Because if there is a supply issue with that then your refinery will be running full of water.

Generally what I do with the Aluminium setup: First have the bauxite and coal get to the refineries. Once they are filled up with that, start the water extractors.
Check the numbers multiple times before starting the process.

I adjusted water, added valves so that water from aluminum scrap goes eaqualy in all 4 alumina solutions refineries, all 4 set to get less water than needed. Problem is I can't process all the aluminum scrap fast enough, then water in pipes overflows cause aluminum scrap refinery can't get rid of the water in the system. I'm just gonna sink the excess scrap until I can be bothered to expand foundries and all that

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Chorizo:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Use valves. Prevents any unwanted backflow. You should also check if you have any supply issues with either the bauxite or coal. Because if there is a supply issue with that then your refinery will be running full of water.

Generally what I do with the Aluminium setup: First have the bauxite and coal get to the refineries. Once they are filled up with that, start the water extractors.
Check the numbers multiple times before starting the process.

I adjusted water, added valves so that water from aluminum scrap goes eaqualy in all 4 alumina solutions refineries, all 4 set to get less water than needed. Problem is I can't process all the aluminum scrap fast enough, then water in pipes overflows cause aluminum scrap refinery can't get rid of the water in the system. I'm just gonna sink the excess scrap until I can be bothered to expand foundries and all that

Well, that is also a reason as to why you run full of water and sinking the excess is certainly helping. But you should still flush the whole pipe system.
Though I would recommend to get the Pure Aluminium Ingot alt recipe as with that you only need smelters (so no silica is needed). Even though you will lose 10% of it (Bauxite:Aluminium ingot; only in combination of Sloppy Alumina and Pure Aluminium ingot) you can simplify the whole process a lot.

[Die Hand Gottes]

Originally posted by Chorizo:

it's just such a tedious process. I would rather just setup another awesome sink, to take the scrap in and have the system running normal

This is just so wanted by the developers aluminum production is the first real challenge I had with it at the beginning my problems but have solved them and now it is no big deal.