Flag to ignore doubled placement of pipe to ground

[Staplergun]

What I'm looking for here is a flag https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/EntityPrototypeFlags (or optional Boolean specific to pipe to ground) that would disable the paired placement behavior of pipe to ground for that prototype.

It would override and cause the pipes to continue placing at the max underground length like they already do every other pipe, but now just every pipe. It also would cease to cause flipping rotation during click and drag placement.

It's a bit of a niche use, however it effects the prototype and runtime behavior, so it wouldn't effect save file size in any way as far as I can tell.

It would be used for the underground I extensions in my mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/underground-pipe-pack

[Rseding91]

This all seems like trying to treat the symptom instead of solving the real problem.

Why exactly do you want all these settings to disable the behavior?

[Staplergun]

I'm back!

So, a boolean type flag that would be added to the prototype in some way to disable the automatic flipping behavior would, in theory, prevent this doubled placement:


Considering the game does recognize custom distances for underground pipes when clicking and dragging for placement, such as below, it may help with the above issue.



All of the above aside, the following pipes would ideally not flip after a placement, since they're not really a pair in the same sense as a traditional pipe to ground.