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Hi All
The title says it all;i've made a storage tank entity but i need to override the storage value but it's not in https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/StorageTank
Thanks in advance.

Storage is based on the fluid box size.
In the case of the vanilla storage tank, that's 250 * 1 * 100 = 25k storage.

So if you want a specific storage, let's say 100k, divide that by 100 and set that as the base_area (since messing with "height" affects fluid flow), in this case 1k

PFQNiet wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:47 am Storage is based on the fluid box size.

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storage = fluid_box.base_area * fluid_box.height * 100

In the case of the vanilla storage tank, that's 250 * 1 * 100 = 25k storage.

So if you want a specific storage, let's say 100k, divide that by 100 and set that as the base_area (since messing with "height" affects fluid flow), in this case 1k

Very interesting to see how this works, so by your recommendation should fluid box height be messing with or just leave it as value of 1?im not planning on changing the fluid box height unless if it has interesting visuals that may give different look from the vanilla. Thanks for the help really appreciate it

If you make the fluid box height higher than 1 then pipes won't be able to fill it! But pumps would be able to, up to a height of 4.

It's definitely the area that you want to change in order to make the storage bigger.

PFQNiet wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:35 pm If you make the fluid box height higher than 1 then pipes won't be able to fill it! But pumps would be able to, up to a height of 4.

It's definitely the area that you want to change in order to make the storage bigger.

I was just curious about anything related to visuals, but based on what you've replayed it has nothing to do with that but level up/down the connection. Thanks for the recommendation though.