Neo IndustrialItem pipes
Item pipes are Neo Industrial's own (IC2 did not have them): they carry items between machines and chests without hoppers. They belong to the same family as the fluid pipes and follow their rules.
| Block | Speed | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
 Bronze Item Pipe | 5 items per second | bronze casings and glass (makes 8) |
 Steel Item Pipe | 20 items per second | steel casings and glass (makes 8) |
 Item Port | as fast as the pipes allow | a hopper surrounded by bronze casings |
How to use them
- They connect on their own to other pipes and to anything with an inventory: chests, barrels, hoppers and machines.
- They do not pull. Items are pushed in by a machine with the ejector upgrade, an Item Port or a hopper.
- Items go straight to an inventory on the network. If nothing accepts them, they stay where they were. You see them travel, small, through the glass stripe, but that is only a drawing: they have already arrived.
- They take turns among the inventories that accept the item: several machines in parallel all work.
- They never send an item back to whoever pushed it.
- Speed: on a path mixing bronze and steel, the bronze rules.
- The Painter paints them: pipes of different colours do not connect, so two lines can run side by side.
- The CF Sprayer covers them in foam, like cables, and they keep working. Once hardened, the Painter paints the foam; breaking it by hand removes the foam and leaves the pipe.
Item port
When placed it faces the block you clicked on (the square mouth): it takes from there and pushes into the pipes on its other sides. From a machine it only takes the outputs. A redstone signal stops it.
Examples
- Processing line: Macerator → Ore Washing Plant → Thermal Centrifuge, each with the ejector upgrade and a pipe to the next one.
- Parallel furnaces: a chest of crushed ore, a port and a steel pipe running past three furnaces.