Placing pipes next to each other

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged into an older thread with the same suggestion. And indeed, there are many other threads with variations about how to change the pipe autoconnect.

[MichaelJCaboose]

I dont get the whole idea about problems with space. Personally, i always play with certain mods installed, like the waterfill mod. This enables me to disable water all over the place, meaning I can do as I please. Which also means, I can slap dont factories of stupid proportions. Like my liquification plants. they are 22 refineries in 8 rows, with an equally stupid amount of chem factories, to make petrolium. Even though my screenshot is from K2, the piping system is still allowing me to revert them to basegame pipes (range is bigger with K2 pipes), because I had the brains to build it in a vanilla game (which was a 1 of a kind idea, since everything else I made, is not exactly compatible with vanilla). I even made all belts in red/blue, so I can use them in a vanilla game

Ofcourse, just because i cant see the reasoning in not using underground pipes, doesnt mean others arent able to..

[protocol_1903]

If you really need it, i made a mod for this problem. It does, however, require a second mod to add pipes.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/no-pipe-touching