Pipeline

Pipeline


Pipelines are essential structures that help you transport the steam from the Extractor(steam geysers) to your Steam Condenser and from it to your Automaton Factory.

Pipes cannot be placed on bridges, water, sand or any unremovable obstacles like rocks and ore veins but they can go underneath single tile roads. This is done by simply placing a road between two pieces of pipe--no further steps are necessary.

This will make some maps a challenge to complete, as you will have to do a lot of planing before placing the pipeline and deciding where to put your Steam Condenser.

Extractors will not work unless they are connected to the Steam Condenser via pipes and they are connected in a parallel way.

Here is an example of a parallel connection:



If you remove the pipeline connector which is marked by the red Circle, the Extractors marked with red Rectangles will stop working because the connection will become Serial instead of Parallel.

The Engineers of Lethis made it this way so if one Extractor blows up due to a too high pressure of the steam geyser beneath it, the others will continue to work without interruption instead of breaking the connection between the rest of the Extractors and the Steam Condenser.