Advanced Item Pipe
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Summary
The Advanced Item Pipe does what the ordinary one does, twice as fast — 4 items per second against two. It still asks for no power, and its sides with the same wrench.
It is visibly thicker than the first tier: a steel body, lighter in colour, with a viewing window in a dark frame in the middle of every piece. You will not mistake the two lines even from a distance, and that is not decoration but part of the rule below.
⚠️ A line runs at the speed of its slowest pipe. One ordinary pipe forgotten in the middle of an advanced line cuts the whole line back to 2 items per second. It is the same rule the cable works by: the narrow spot throttles the whole route. That is exactly why the advanced pipe is made thicker — a forgotten thin piece must be visible to the eye, not only to a measurement. Upgrading therefore means replacing the line as a whole, not plugging in a single segment.
A batch is counted per receiver, and one source serves a receiver per interval: a chest into three furnaces gives 12 items per second, while three chests into one receiver still give 4.
Block Properties
Flowing fluid washes the pipe away, just like a vanilla torch or redstone: if water spreads into the pipe's cell, the pipe drops as an item, and lava destroys it without a drop. Do not run a pipe where water can spread — next to a pump's pool, for instance; wall the water off.
Recipe
Four ordinary item pipes on the sides, four reinforced cupronickel plates in the corners and a silver plate in the centre — the result is four advanced pipes. Ordinary pipes go into the recipe, so the second tier cannot be reached around the first.
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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