Pipes coloring

553 votes

Make it possible to recolor pipes. T2 pipes already have blue stripes, why not allow them to be recolored? Or even use color of transported resource. This could be even extended to other transports.

Done Suggested by: Marek (02 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 04 Apr • Comments: 17

Comments: 17

04 Dec, '21
RussKie
I'd love to see the pipes coloured/tinted with the colour of the liquid/gas they transport. There are windows in pipes (this is an awesome feature) but at certain zoon the windows are hard to see, and when there are many parallel multi-level pipes it is often very hard to reason which pipe you want to connect to.
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05 Jan, '22
Ryan
I think just adding a trim color to the pipes would be enough, i.e blue trim for water, black trim for crude oil, red trim for acid. So you can tell from a distance what each pipe carries especially in the refinery areas gets hard to follow sometimes.
09 Jun, '22
Ryan
I'd add to this and say be able to paint all buildings, vehicles, pipes, etc. This way you can color code each job and tell what items are stored in each building.
27 Jun, '22
Aktymel
Make it possible to assign any picture of materials to the pipe so it is shown every X meters and also numbers for spaghetti
02 Jul, '22
jkos
maybe a symbol for us color-challenged players or editable colors at least.
08 Jul, '22
Darkaiser
I like this idea. I'm near to blind from trying to follow that ONE water pipe to find out where the trouble is...
12 Jul, '22
Liwet
Maybe require a resource to make paint.
08 Aug, '22
ostlandr
Would be very helpful. The pipe windows and/or clicking on the pipe don't help if the pipe is empty. For this reason I am very careful to rename all my pipe balancers (naptha manifold, crude oil manifold, steam hi manifold etc.) so I don't make a bad connection. Not a disaster if you do, although I did take down my entire power plant by piping water into the depleted steam feed to the cooling towers. Had to find the problem, disconnect the errant pipe, and then find and remove the water from the system.
10 Aug, '22
Foestauf
Striping would be great. If we could have them colored automatically based on the contents would be sweet.
07 Oct, '22
Stellz
Option to place an ingame "Icon(s)" on tubes (periodically) so player can figure out what tube (or section) is what for (would be better than just painting and wont turn your factory into a parrot).
01 Feb, '23
MrJoshua
Bonus for having the texture/coloring clearly indicate the direction the pipe flows. The white arrows can be hard to see if not zoomed in or on short pipe segments.
18 Apr, '23
Vladovlak
Very good idea
22 Jun, '23
Woodzy
this woudl be a massive help since you guys did away with pipe renameing..
Maybe bring that back but Tie it with Level 4 pipes so theres no issues when upgradeing?
25 Jun, '23
Jon
International ANSI pipe colouring standard has the following:
Yellow - Flammable and Oxidizing Fluids
Red - Fire Quenching Fluids
Orange - Toxic and Corrosive Fluids
Green - All Water
Blue - All Air
Brown - Combustible Fluids
Purple, Black, White and Grey - User Defined
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01 Aug, '23
Peter
or even the abillity to name the pipes ...
29 Dec, '23
Frank
Oh, my God please yes - I've played hundreds of hours satisfactorily so far - if I miss something it's the colored markings on the pipes. One look and you know which pipe transports which product. With a complex network you have too much to look for... and if one pipe runs empty... you're screwed. Oh well, I'll get to the next update. Until then I'll wait and play Dyson Sphere or Satisfactory.
13 Jan
Phooenixification
Being able to label conveyors and pipes could be helpful aswell, you can label pretty much everything else so.

"05 Jan, '22
Ryan
I think just adding a trim color to the pipes would be enough, i.e blue trim for water, black trim for crude oil, red trim for acid. So you can tell from a distance what each pipe carries especially in the refinery areas gets hard to follow sometimes."

I still would want the option to colour the pipes my own way. Say you have a high steam network spread around your base and want to colourlabel it depending on priority and/or direction, i have 6 different steam inputs for that loop to save on coal that goes back and fourth to different places depending on priority and situation. If everything is white for example it doesn't help me anything.