Thanks for the report, but this is not a bug. The "pipeline" only includes the pipes, not the pumps.


The pipeline also includes turbines, mining drills and other pass-through entities - their buffers are accounted in the pipe's content.
But, whyever, the pump's treated as the fluid producing ...

Loewchen wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2026 9:00 pm 135448

With all the respect, please take a moment to read the post completely - I tried to explain there, why I think this is rather inconsistency than a feature.

I'm building a power plant load monitor that measures how much steam is consumed by the turbines from a buffer tank over a given number of ticks.

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The measurement cycle consists of two steps:
Refilling — the intake pump is enabled and the power switch near the turbines is ...