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I was thinking, there's some ways to carry fluids to longer distances.
But, sometimes using barrels, trains or create three pipes for transporting three or more liquids together consume a lot of space and work.

If we could transport less fluid of each type, but in a three-in-one pipe ?

A machine similar to Assembler could do the service:



Thank you again!
My best regards.

Strongly against the idea. Unnessessary complication that goes against the game idea of building complex using simple.

1. you can't actually run normal pipes that close together without it all merging into one big pipe blob.
2. I don't really see the benefit of this personally, I mean, wouldn't you just need to split the pipe into 3 again at the other end?

I can see it as being useful for long-distance pipelines. Usually I dont bother with oil trains and just run a light oil and oil pipe everywhere along my support rail, to be able to plop down oil wells and flamethrower defense/fuel production anywhere where I expand to. Having a triplepipe , at best a large one, with a larger throughput than the normal one could be useful for my playstyle, although I agree that this seems just like a way to lazily ignore tanker wagons.

bobingabout wrote:1. you can't actually run normal pipes that close together without it all merging into one big pipe blob.

You're right, the picture shows wrongly the concept.
The pipes should be in other points, or we could have a double pipe instead triple.