Reinforced Liquid Junction

Reinforced Liquid Junction is a block used to route liquids across obstacles by making the liquid-bearing blocks at its two ends behave as if they were directly adjacent. Functionally similar to the Liquid Junction (and its Erekir variant), the Reinforced Liquid Junction has no internal liquid capacity and transmits fluids instantaneously between connected liquid blocks. When two liquid-holding blocks are linked through a Reinforced Liquid Junction, their contents are effectively shared with unlimited throughput; fluids move as if the blocks were next to each other, allowing immediate equalization and extremely fast transfer.

Reinforced Liquid Junctions are primarily used to cross existing liquid pipes or to bridge gaps where a direct pipe run would be obstructed. Because they simulate adjacency, they are useful in compact layouts where you want two tanks, processors, or pumps to behave as one connected system without running visible piping between them. The behavior applies equally to the base Junction and the Erekir variant.

Placement rules and terrain interactions:

• The Reinforced Liquid Junction does not store liquid itself; it merely links the two ends.
• When placed on Deep Water tiles, the junction requires that at least one of the four orthogonally adjacent tiles (not counting diagonal corners) be either a shallow-water tile or a non-liquid tile. The same adjacency requirement applies when the junction is placed on tiles containing Slag, Tar, Arkycite, or Cryofluid.
• These adjacency constraints prevent placing the junction fully surrounded by deep/liquid tiles of the listed types.

Practical usage notes and strategies:

• Use Reinforced Liquid Junctions to create instant shared buffers between tanks or between a tank and a processor; this removes throughput limits imposed by pipe capacity or pump speed.
• Because they treat ends as directly adjacent, place them to bypass choke points or to simplify routing in tight builds where pipes would otherwise need to snake around obstacles.
• Avoid relying on Reinforced Liquid Junctions as a storage medium — they do not hold fluid; any apparent storage is actually the connected liquid blocks' combined contents.
• Keep terrain placement rules in mind when building over water or on special liquid floors like Tar, Slag, Arkycite, or Cryofluid to prevent invalid placement.
• Combine Reinforced Liquid Junctions with pumps or valves on the connected tanks if you need to control flow direction or enforce rate limits despite the junction’s infinite-throughput linking.