Lifetime saver: How to stop Mekanism Advanced Mechanical Pipes from connecting to each other
Hey everyone,
Maybe I’m just completely dumb, but I just spent dozens of minutes trying to figure this out. I’m posting this here to hopefully save some of you a lifetime of frustration.
I was searching through other Reddit threads for a fix, but mostly kept running into advice telling me to use Chisel microblocks between them (which often doesn't work) or other broken workarounds. While the current native Mekanism solution isn't the most elegant and takes a little bit of time to set up, it actually gets the job done.
If you're trying to run two Advanced Mechanical Pipes (or any other Mekanism pipes) right next to each other in ATM10 and they keep automatically connecting into a mess, here is how you stop it:
- Grab your Configurator.
- Look closely at the pipe. Mekanism actually divides a single pipe cable into 3 separate hitboxes per block.
- You need to aim specifically at the center section of the pipe block.
- Shift + Right-click to cycle through the connection states (the same section where you normally set Push/Pull, etc.).
- Keep cycling until the state is set to None.
Once it's set to "None", the pipe will immediately disconnect from the adjacent cables. Just remember the golden rule: it has to be done on the middle hitbox of the block, otherwise it won't work!
Hope this saves someone's sanity today. Cheers!