r/Mindustry 1d ago

Discussion So appararently liquid tanks LITERALY decrease troughput, even with junctions

I was working on an decent landing pad setup on PLT when i noticed that when i added more water to the landing pads, the slower they got, i was stunt for a few days until i realaized that THE LIQUID TANKS in the junction transportation were literaly slowing down the whole liquid transportation by 450l/s, using large tanks seemed to not do anything so i dont think its related to the storage cap, if theres anyone who knows how to analaize the code behind ts i'd be happy to see why ts happens, im gonna guess its bc of junction backflow

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u/TlimeMathGuy 1d ago

Ok then try this, place 40 liquid tanks each one turning in any way with junctions and lower your fps between 60 & 144 fps

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u/VintageGriffin 1d ago

Perhaps you could post a screenshot of what you have.

Junctions literally teleport water, and have no throughput limitation at all. Every other liquid block synchronizes their liquid capacity with adjacent blocks multiple times per second, so the larger that capacity is the faster liquid is being exchanged, the more throughput the chain has. This makes large liquid tanks the best candidate for making junction sneks change direction.

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u/TlimeMathGuy 1d ago

See your point lemme show u