After a bit more testing, I observed the same behavior when trying to add heating energy to a passive provider chest. Putting one next to an isolated, warm heat pipe resulted in the heat pipe staying at the same temperature.

Since heating_energy is a property of EntityPrototype and ...

Hi!

I want to make a mod that incentivizes running most of your heat pipes on Aquilo at lower temperatures, since I realized that most of my Aquilo base was well over 500 C and that felt a bit strange.

I figured that a good starting point would be to make heat pipes lossy on Aquilo. I made a ...