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Friday Facts #416 - Fluids 2.0
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I remember reading the old fluid FF and thinking to myself: Why it needs to be so complicated? Just make every single connected "entity" share the same pool of resources and be done with it.
Which was already discussed in that article as "too simple and unrealistic".
So I'm kinda happy for them to have followed this aproach at the end.
I feel the opposite. This new scheme is kinda disappointing honestly because it's dull and sterile. Referencing Minecraft the early days of the technic pack had an item pipes mod. And you could see the items moving through the pipes - so cool!
Later versions (and FTB) changed this to something less interesting. Likely simpler, better on resources, and had less nuance... but so boring. I found it a lot less fun as a result.
Now you can have a ten mile long fluid pipeline and *poof* suddenly the entire thing's fluid contents change instantly and across the entire thing?
It's a new way to send analog signals I guess. But it's so much less interesting and unique.
I think they should put a "realistic fluid" switch.
Bifurcating game engine performance isn't sustainable.