Which valve on a Xycraft store liquid data?

[Harvest88]

I have two so which one if broken will lose the liquid contents of the tank? the lower one or the one up top? or can I break either one and the last one still there will store it?

 

[Lambert2191]

I believe both. You can break either one and retain the liquid.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

If you're going to break one valve, be sure to do it while the tank is formed. If you break a different block, then break the valve without first reforming the tank, you'll lose half its contents. Found that one out the hard way.

 

[Kik]

Actually, Soaryn's mentioned on streams with Direwolf20 that the liquid in a Xycraft tank is shared between all valves on the tank. So if you have 2 valves they should each carry 50% of the liquid and you could lose that much when you break one. Not tested it myself so can't confirm from experience.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

Yep, that's accurate but can also be misleading. I'm able to break one of the valves in a two-valve tank without losing any liquid, as long as I don't touch the other one until I've reformed the tank. I'm guessing the way this works is that when the tank is broken, the liquid gets evenly split and assigned to valves excluding the one that was just broken. For all I know though, it might depend on the order in which blocks are updated, which can be unpredictable - maybe breaking the other valve would have caused me to lose half the liquid. I'll have to do some more extensive testing to be sure.

 

[Mash]

Yep, that's accurate but can also be misleading. I'm able to break one of the valves in a two-valve tank without losing any liquid, as long as I don't touch the other one until I've reformed the tank. I'm guessing the way this works is that when the tank is broken, the liquid gets evenly split and assigned to valves excluding the one that was just broken. For all I know though, it might depend on the order in which blocks are updated, which can be unpredictable - maybe breaking the other valve would have caused me to lose half the liquid. I'll have to do some more extensive testing to be sure.

Confirmed.

I tested it on a 3-valve tank. Upon breaking the valve first, no liquid was lost. Breaking the valve on an unformed tank, however, cause me to lose a third of my tank's contents.

 

[Harvest88]

Ahh okay thanks guys. I just better off building a new tank somewhere else and pump the fuel via a tessract then.

 

[Kik]

Thanks tons for testing this guys. I am very glad to have this info!