I liked Nihaus solution with the water output: 80/m fresh water in, Sloppy Alumina in the first Refinery, the normal Alumina scrap in the second refinery. feed the waste 120/m water back into the start using two valves to limit the intake of Fresh water to 80/m and prevent backflow. Use the Pure Aluminum Ingot with six smelters to deal with the output of the Aluminum Scrap refinery and then just vary the number of Assenblers to make casings or sheets as needed. The first refinery will take a little time to get the needed water for the first cycle or two and then the Recycled water will do it's work.
There is actually a significantly easier way to 100% never fail recycle water. Doesnt require any "twisty" pipe set ups like in your clips. The way water pipes work is they "take" from each pipe in order. So ... If you supply water "before" a machines output the machines needing water will always "take" from the supply machine before the pumps. So the ONLY thing you need to do is have everything in order... Pumps -> Supply Machines (machines who output water) -> Demands Machines (machines who input water). Just straight pipes no tricks just in order. Floor holes dont affect it, its actually really easy to do. It works with all fluids too so even acids and such as well. I have done a LOT of nuclear set ups and they never back up. Water supply one end demand at other ... recycle in the middle.
So that means the demand machines take all the water from the Supply Machines first and all the necessary rest from the Water extractors? As a result the Water extractors would occasionally turn on and off again right? Just making sure I understood the concept right.
@@daswort2 Yes exactly. You will often still need Water extractors but no where near as much. If you wanted to "buffer" you can have a tank here in line that will ensure the "delay" between a pump turning on doesnt delay anything but i have never needed anything more than a small tank for this task its very fast really. Often just a long enough pipe is plenty enough buffer.
I thought this might also need some explaining - VERY large scale set ups. If you have a setup where the recycle is over 600 ie more than 1 pipe this can get a little trickier. You cant supply just from one end. But this is where you try and break things up a little. Have 2 pipes with half the recycle machines feeding into each and again supplying at one end of each. Just ensure that the output of all the recycle doest go above 600 or you will have issues.
@@Tillmar728 But to kickstart the whole process the pumps would do the initial part before the first supply machines provide its own water into the loop right BEFORE the demand machines and the pump would then turn off in the process?
@@daswort2 Yep. It doesnt matter if there is no recycling yet the pumps will just start up fill the pipes and stop. If there is anything to recycle it will take that first. Its also a fairly instant thing because lets say the pipe is 100% full and you start using at the far end. The pipe will empty a little which cascades to the first recycle machine. If there is nothing there it goes to next and so on. Soon as the recycle starts it will start to use that instead.
