Larger Oxygen Solutions

[PeaceIsBliss]

So the Oxygen Distributor is just plain limited. While nifty for little ISS ideas, it falls very short of any practical uses for volumetric builds. So I propose this idea: all gas style pipes (from whatever mod, pipez, mek, xnet) to pull oxygen from it, and introduce a new block, call it 'vent', that will allow breathable atmosphere within a range of say 16 blocks of its location. Obviously over taxing the Distributor would result in weaker performance, but let the pipe handling deal with that, just x-amount out of Distributor, and x-used by vents per tick value. This would prevent large area related issues of performance with scanning blocks at x-intervals. And avoid the glitches of the Distributors not stacking in a enclosure larger than a single ones capacity.

I suppose the interface would need a off/on/pipe only, to disable the area detection for sure. But the only new block you would have to make is a 'vent' block. I would depend on other mods for piping, there are too many that do a far better job than I would request of the developers just for a simple solution to my problems.

The factory must grow.