Eyedropper or bucket -- Manual liquid picker upper

[BenGoldberg]

This is an idea for an "eyedropper", an item which the player can use to move small amounts of fluid from from one fluidbox to another without any piping between them.

A newly crafted eyedropper is empty; when an empty eyedropper is in the player's hand, and he clicks while hovering over a fluidbox, some fluid is drained from that fluidbox and the eyedropper is full of the corresponding liquid. A full eyedropper can be emptied in the same manner.

Additional features:

1) an empty eyedropper could be used on any water within the player's reach to turn it into a eyedropper full of water.

2) an empty eyedropper could be used to pick up a bit of crude oil from any oil field within the player's reach, turning into an eyedropper full of crude oil.

This would be useful for a modpack where offshore pumps require electricity, and the eyedropper could be used to jump start steam generation; it could also be used for something like vanilla coal liquefaction, to transport in the necessary heavy oil needed to start the process.

Also, while nothing specifically comes to mind, it's easy to imagine wanting to automate a machine which takes an absurd number of different items and liquids, and being literally not being able to attach everything at once, since the machine isn't large enough.

[BHakluyt]

I'd like this very much, would go great with the Industrial Revolution mod to have the early game steampunk robots require water so that its more clearer that they actually run on steam...

[darkfrei]

This is an idea for an "eyedropper", an item which the player can use to move small amounts of fluid from from one fluidbox to another without any piping between them.

Ready mod with bottles, handler for small amount of fluids https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BottledFluids

But the game engine cannot give you multiple products from the same ore / oil patch. So the crude oil patch can give you fluids xor items with fluids inside, but not the both.

But you can add some stones (crystals, etc), that on the mining or destroying give you some amount of items, for example flasks with crude oil, sand with crude oil, whatever.

[BHakluyt]

I wonder how many more awesome little mods are out there. I've sat down twice and scrolled down almost the whole list but still missed some of these... Thanks going to give this a try as soon as I can download stuff.