Fluix Line – Guide

One line instead of three. The Fluix Line (Fluix-Leitung) carries a gas pipe, a liquid pipe and a power cable bundled in one cell. Each of the three is a real game part with its own network: pressure, bursting, temperature, gas mixture and cable network behave as in the game, and so do saving and multiplayer. The three networks stay separate, nothing mixes. The bundle has its own design with flanges, clamps, carrier rods and junction boxes. Names and Stationpedia texts appear in German or English, depending on the game language.

Overview#

Two versions#

If you only need power, you don't need a bundle: Extreme Cable (10 MW) and Power Cable+ (unlimited) are available as single lines.

Requirements#

• Stationeers 0.2.6428, BepInEx 5.4.23.5, StationeersLaunchPad 1.0, see Installation
• Mod in the active mod pack
• In multiplayer: the server and all players

Building and recipes#

Both kits come from the Hydraulic Pipe Bender, tier 2:

For comparison: an insulated gas pipe, an insulated liquid pipe and a super heavy cable cost 2 steel, 2 silicon, 0.5 constantan and 0.5 electrum together.

Shapes#

Each kit builds every shape. The kits used match the insulated pipe:

Building and taking down#

1. Take the kit in your hand. Right-click opens the shape selection, the mouse wheel picks the shape.
2. One click builds all three lines at once.
3. Merging works like with pipes: wrench in the other hand, then build onto an existing bundle. It turns into the matching junction. This works with the eight basic shapes of the same version, not with long straights and splitters.
4. Taking down with the wrench removes the whole bundle and returns the kit. The pipe contents go to the neighbouring networks, as with game pipes.
5. If a pipe has burst or the cable has burnt out, you get nothing back, just like in the game. With the setting BausatzBeiSchaden a damaged bundle returns its kit too.

Looking at the bundle shows gas (pressure, temperature), liquid (pressure, temperature) and power (load and limit). Above 90 % of the limit the power line turns orange. If a part is missing, it says "Bundle incomplete"; if a part is broken, "Bundle damaged".

Nothing else fits into a bundle cell: no other pipe or cable and no inline devices such as valves, pipe heaters or pipe labels.

Connecting#

Bundle to bundle#

All three lines connect, each with its counterpart.

Devices#

• Gas and power ports connect directly to the bundle.
• Liquid ports (pumps, tanks, filters and so on) do too, as long as the setting FluessigDirekt is on (default). If it is off, plain game behaviour applies: the device can't see the liquid line, so put a normal liquid pipe between device and bundle.
• When you build next to a liquid port, the build tooltip shows a hint line: blue if the device connects directly, orange if a normal liquid pipe has to go in between.

Game pipes and cables#

Normal pipes and cables connect end to end. The neighbouring cell only has one pipe slot, though. So only one game line fits at the end of a bundle. For all three there is the Fluix Splitter.

Any cable fits the power outlet, including Extreme Cable and Power Cable+. If you want to continue without a limit after the splitter, use Power Cable+. Any other cable sets its limit for the whole network.

Fluix Splitter#

• The bundle comes in from the back. One line continues straight on, the other two go left and right.
• Three versions: gas, liquid or power straight on.
• Rotate it like any part, also upside down. Then the side outlets point up and down.
• Game pipe, game liquid pipe and game cable connect at the outlets.
• A splitter costs 2 kits and cannot be merged.

Steam Power#

Fluix bundles can be built directly onto the water and condensate ports of the Steam Power devices. Normally Steam Power only allows liquid pipes there. Water and condensate then run through the bundle's liquid pipe, as long as FluessigDirekt is on. The steam port connects to the bundle's gas pipe.

Overload, heat and bursting#

• Fluix Line (500 kW): above 500 kW only the cable in the bundle burns out, with sparks as in the game. Gas pipe and liquid pipe keep their contents untouched, no gas is lost. The look-at tooltip shows "cable burnt out". The burnt cable connects to nothing any more. Take the bundle down with the wrench and build a new one.
• Fluix Line Unlimited: never burns out from overload. A network still breaks at its weakest part, though: if a game cable, a fuse or a piece of the 500 kW Fluix Line sits in the same network, its limit applies and that part burns.
• Fireproof casing: game cables ignite by themselves from about 300 °C, the bundle does not. A cable fire from overload only hits the power part.
• Bursting: gas pipe and liquid pipe burst under too much pressure like game pipes and then show their own burst model. Here too: take it down and build a new one.

Console commands#

Open the console with F3.

fluix reparieren does not repair burnt cables or burst pipes. Take those bundles down and build them again. Instead of pruefen and reparieren you can also type check and repair.

Configuration#

File: BepInEx\config\dominik1199.fluix.cfg, or through the mod settings in LaunchPad.

Multiplayer#

New parts: the server and all players need the mod. Each line in the bundle is a normal game part; building, saving and joining work like with game pipes. See Multiplayer.

Known limitations#

• Pipe analyser, pipe labels and network cartridge only see the gas pipe. The look-at tooltip shows all three lines.
• The cable gun and the electrical belt don't take the kit.
• Only one game line fits at the end of a bundle. For more, use the splitter.
• Long straights and splitters can't be merged, and neither can different versions.
• Freely rotated pieces (tilted, vertical transitions) may look offset at the flange. That is only visual; the networks connect through the cells.
• If you merge a piece that lies on its own, its pipe contents can be lost, as with game pipes.
• Without the mod all bundles disappear from the save. Back up your saves first.

Troubleshooting#