Fluid Intake

Draws fresh water into the pipe network.

This is the only block in the mod that makes water rather than moving it: everything downstream is a pump or a boiler drawing on what the intake produces. It will only place on top of a water block, and the pipe run leaves through exactly one horizontal face, the one it faced when placed. It only draws while the whole 3 by 3 by 3 cube of water directly below it is liquid; a frozen skin on the outer cells of the top layer is tolerated, but the cell right underneath has to stay open water, so a pond that ices over under the intake stops it outright.

A second intake within 6 blocks of this one disables it. That is deliberate, not a bug: intakes cannot be packed onto one pond, so give each one its own patch of open water.

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Made by

	any Hammer (tool, not consumed)
Plate (Iron or Steel)	any Piping (Straight)	Plate (Iron or Steel)
Nails and strips (Iron or Steel) x 2	Plate (Iron or Steel)	Nails and strips (Iron or Steel) x 2
Fluid Intake

Needs: 1 any Piping (Straight), 3 Plate (Iron or Steel), 4 Nails and strips (Iron or Steel), a Hammer (kept); makes 1 Fluid Intake

Amounts are the mod's defaults; the recipe-cost level changes them (see Commands and config).