March 31st, 2026
Q&A: The Pipe thing with backflow and physics, will that always be a thing?
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Mikael
The pipe thing with backflow and physics.
Will that always be a thing?
I'm with pumps too high and so on, but I've...
To think about, if I do this, do I get my 300 units or not?
I like, there stands 300, I get 300, I don't have to solve backflow and shit, yes.
There's been, I take partial blame for the increase in fluid irritation, annoyance lately.
Maybe it's just me perceiving that and feeling extra guilty, so it feels extra loud to me, maybe it's not extra loud.
But I have perceived louder annoyance with fluid dynamics lately.
And I am starting to wonder if it is because the way we...
There is that one thumbnail from autumn last year.
We fixed fluids, kinda.
Yeah, maybe.
It was still fun.
I would still do it again.
It's nice to take the piss on you all sometimes.
Ha!
Yeah, I did just say that.
Um...
but maybe we maybe we um over trolled for what the fluid truck was actually and honestly the fluid truck is a good option for handling fluids um tldr
I feel more blame for the annoyance lately if there is more blame, but fluids work the way they are supposed to.
We still suspect there might be a mini-bug hiding inside what we already consider and have intended to be the working state of fluids, like the way they behave is how we intend to, with a slight maybe deviation that's so hard to pinpoint.
Is this a bug or is this just...
Also a possible result of our little mathematics jumbo and the main reason for this is that pipes took three updates to deliver After belts were a thing for a reason and that reason is we never wanted pipes to just be belts with another mesh and waters to be items hidden inside the pipes, but that functionally
work exactly like I just know conveyor belts like just x node or x cube of liquid whatever um flowing into thing because at that point we may as well just make conveyor belts for are there ghosts in the studio fascinating um we may as well make conveyor belts for liquids as well uh yes we may have overdone
how real liquids are to deal with in this game yes there may be room for us to explore to like change it fundamentally i don't know camera and then ghost sounds and then now lights and my mic hasn't died yet i just jinxed it but hey we'll see what that happens great um we might look into it but for now again
Pipes and fluids, they do work according to design.
We'll see.
We'll see.
If the changes come, even like way down the line, I am the first in line to start actually teasing and even giving you hard spoilers on that.