How to Move Liquids with Transporters, Smart Hoppers, and Fluid Guns

Combining Fluid and Item Movement

Factory setups often need to handle solid items and liquids through the same pipeline.

1. Install a fluid transporter alongside your machinery to channel both solid items and fluid payloads simultaneously.

2. Place a smart hopper at processing junctions where you need to filter and direct incoming materials together into storage or processing lines.

3. Integrate mechanical pumps along your pipe sections to keep fluid pressures steady as materials transition through access ports and hatches.

Aiming Fluids with the Mechanical Fluid Gun

For setups where pipes cannot easily reach, you can shoot liquids directly through open air.

1. Place a mechanical fluid gun and supply it with liquid via connected pipes or pumps.

2. Aim the mechanical fluid gun directly at target blocks, machines, or recipient containers across a gap.

3. Fire the gun to shoot a stream of fluid—such as blue liquid—directly into processing blocks like a packager without laying a physical pipeline between them.