Liquid Overflow Valve

The Liquid Overflow Valve is a utility building used to control how liquid resources are distributed through a pipe network. It is designed for priority handling: when liquid is available, the valve helps determine which connected buildings receive that resource first, rather than letting every destination compete equally for the supply.

In practice, it is used to route precious or limited liquids toward the buildings that need them most. By placing it in a delivery line, players can make sure one set of buildings gets first access to the flow before lower-priority consumers. This makes it useful anywhere a colony has a restricted supply and several possible recipients, such as systems that depend on carefully managed coolant, irrigation, or other liquid-fed infrastructure.

• It is a priority tool, not a storage solution; it does not create liquid or increase total supply.
• Its main value is in directing scarce resources to specific buildings before they are spent elsewhere.
• It is especially useful when multiple buildings share the same pipe network and only some of them should be serviced first.
• Because it works by priority, it helps prevent important consumers from being starved by less critical ones.

The building is most effective when used as part of a larger distribution setup, where pipes are already bringing liquid to several possible endpoints. Instead of replacing the rest of the network, it complements it by deciding which connected buildings are serviced first.