Transport Pipes.
Taiphoz
UK Join Date: 2016-01-01 Member: 210749Members
UK Join Date: 2016-01-01 Member: 210749Members
Hay..
At some point were going to get I hope some machines that will do stuff, like take raw titanium and process it into pure titanium or machines that will automate crafting if given the raw materials, when this happens were going to need some form of pipe system, some way to connect a pipe to a storage thing and then run that pipe over to a machine so that the machine can pull out the items it needs.
A basic implementation of this might be a room full of storage shelves, all with pipes coming out of them along the ceiling and then going down into a fabricator, then the player goes to the fabricator and says make me a computer chip the fab knows its connected to pipes so it looks along the pipe chain and looks in each storage container it finds for the materials it needs, pulling what it does to build the thing you request or telling you items missing so you can go fill your storage .
Pipes need two basic functions Pull and Push, could all be done with a single pipe just ajusting the connection point to either pull or push, you could then connect one side of a water machine with a pull pipe going into storage and it will auto pull out any salt and water and dump it into the storage you connect it to.
These pipes could work the same way on docked subs, if you pip up say the moon pool then when you dock if your sub has cargo it would get auto sucked out and into your storage.
At some point were going to get I hope some machines that will do stuff, like take raw titanium and process it into pure titanium or machines that will automate crafting if given the raw materials, when this happens were going to need some form of pipe system, some way to connect a pipe to a storage thing and then run that pipe over to a machine so that the machine can pull out the items it needs.
A basic implementation of this might be a room full of storage shelves, all with pipes coming out of them along the ceiling and then going down into a fabricator, then the player goes to the fabricator and says make me a computer chip the fab knows its connected to pipes so it looks along the pipe chain and looks in each storage container it finds for the materials it needs, pulling what it does to build the thing you request or telling you items missing so you can go fill your storage .
Pipes need two basic functions Pull and Push, could all be done with a single pipe just ajusting the connection point to either pull or push, you could then connect one side of a water machine with a pull pipe going into storage and it will auto pull out any salt and water and dump it into the storage you connect it to.
These pipes could work the same way on docked subs, if you pip up say the moon pool then when you dock if your sub has cargo it would get auto sucked out and into your storage.
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However, I think a slightly more 'scientific' approach (at least in terms of Subnautica's world-frame) would be preferable to having a tangled maze of pipes running all over the place. It's difficult enough getting air-tubes to run in a straight line, so I'm sure there's a better way of doing this. Your idea would be ideal for use in a Steampunk setting, incidentally.
Matter Transmission. Teleportation.
All The Survivor would need to do is build a number of Transmat terminals in bases and the Cyclops, and have all storage lockers connected in a two-way arrangement that supplies materials directly to all Fabricators, Builder tools and the Mobile Vehicle Bay.
So, what do you think?
Alternatively if we could build pipes like those in futurama that just siphon people from A to B, that'd be cool too. amusing, but cool. Probably faster than boating it from A to B if it's particularily far.