Tanks & Barrels
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Tanks and barrels are useful storage devices that can hold various fluids in various amounts. Each tank and barrel supports holding different types of corrosive, hot, or exotic fluids, and knowing which ones can hold your desired fluids can be vital to your fluid processing and storage facilities.
Usage
Set the fluid by putting a fluid ID in the top slot of the GUI, or crouch right-click the container while holding a fluid ID, then fill it up with slippery goodness. Fluid containers are set to input mode by default, clicking through the button will switch between input, buffer (input and output), output, and no duct access (which will make it only possible to access the fluid with item containers) modes.
Barrels
These single block barrels can store reasonable amounts of fluids, with varying capacities and capabilities. Note that the item fluid barrel containers hold 16,000mB and cannot be partially filled, and therefore need to be placed in a barrel at least as large as a steel barrel to extract their fluid.
Safe Barrel
This barrel can only store regular fluids, and has a capacity of 12,000 mB.
Corroded Barrel
This is what iron barrels used turn into when corrosive fluids were placed into them, it has a capacity of only 6,000mB it will constantly leak fluids until it is repaired or replaced. They can be repaired by combining one with tar in the crafting table.
Steel Barrel
This barrel can store regular, hot, and corrosive fluids (but not highly corrosive fluids), and has a capacity of 16,000 mB.
Technetium Steel Barrel
This barrel can store regular, hot, and both corrosive and highly corrosive fluids, and has a capacity of 24,000 mB.
Magnetic Antimatter Container
This container can store any fluid, with the downside of being very expensive to craft, with a capacity of 16,000 mB.
Steel Tanks & Static Fluid Barrels
Steel tanks are used in many crafting recipes, and can also be used to place tanks of diesel, kerosene into the world that can be shot at, causing them to explode. liquid oxygen LOX tanks will freeze the enviroment and radioactive barrels will release fallout when shot at. The tanks can be filled with 10,000 mB of the chosen fluid, and they can also be emptied to retrieve that fuel by placing them in a barrel with a capacity higher than 10,000 mB.
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Steel tanks can also be crafted into radioactive barrels and vitrified nuclear waste barrels at an anvil or assembly machine:
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Gallery
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Explosive Barrel (Diesel)
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Kerosene Barrel
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LOX Barrel (Liquid Oxygen)
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Radioactive Barrel
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Vitrified Nuclear Waste Drum
Tanks
Tanks are multiblock methods of fluid storage, capable of storing fluids considerably more efficiently than barrels, making them the ideal way of storing or processing bulk quantities of fluids.
Standard Tank
The tank is likely the first multiblock fluid storage device a player will make in their survival playthrough. It can store 256,000 mB of most fluids except for:
The tank has two access ports available on both sides of the tank near the bottom, for a total of 4 ports. Crafting the tank requires an assembly machine and the following materials:
Notes
- The ladder is usable, even though it was thought to not be possible to implement previously.
- Stopping midway is somewhat broken, but is a minor problem.
- When shot with an explosive or filled with strongly corrosive fluid, tanks will get damaged and burst, but can be repaired with a blowtorch and steel plates.
Big-Ass Tank
The Big-Ass Tank is the largest fluid storage container available in the mod, capable of storing 16,000,000 mB of fluid. Like the deprecated Big-Ass Tank 9000, it is also capable of holding strongly corrosive fluids, but antimatter will cause the destruction of the tank. Unlike its predecessor, the tank has two ports, located on opposite sides of the tank, and will sink into the ground if it is not placed on a suitable surface. The tank requires a pad of fully solid blocks underneath, with an explosion resistance of stone or greater. For example, the tank will sink when placed on sand, sandstone, and others; a suitable use of material is concrete.
Heavy Magnetic Storage Tank
The heavy magnetic storage tank is the only multiblock tank capable of holding 512,00 mB of any fluid, including antimatter. However, it is, again, very expensive to manufacture.
This tank has four ports on both the top and bottom for inserting and extracting fluids, and can be crafted in an assembly machine with the following recipe:
Big-Ass Tank 9000 (LEGACY)
The old Big-Ass Tank 9000 was the largest fluid storage container available in the mod, capable of storing 2,048,000 mB of fluid. Due to the technetium/cadmium steel present in its construction, it was able to hold strongly corrosive fluids, while antimatter caused the destruction of the tank. This tank had two access ports available on each side, for a total of 8 ports. The recipe was removed, and the tank was deprecated, in version 1.0.27_X5714.
Notes
- A tank may also be a massive, muscular zombie that threatens to kill your three teammates in a single blow.
- May also be an armored fighting vehicle intended as a primary offense weapon in the frontlines.
- Used to use a slot for a fuse, it no longer uses a fuse so it won't do anything, but fuses from previous versions from the tank can be recovered.
- Can fill/empty all of its contents at once.