Pipes, a storage tank and a fluid-port API for Minecraft, on Factorio 2.0's fluid segments. It registers no fluid and carries whichever a Consumer puts in, as Beltworks carries any item. The FactoryWorks Pack binds it to Factorio's numbers and fluids; Craftworks is meant to nest it, so a machine's fluid slots and the pipes feeding them share one model.
The Module's terms, each with what it is and the words to avoid. /domain-modeling adds them as they are resolved.
Segment: A connected run of nodes, which holds one fluid in one fluid box. Its capacity is the sum of its nodes' and flow inside it is instant. Avoid: network, pipeline, fluid box (that is what a segment holds, not what it is)
Contents: What a segment holds: one fluid and its amount, or nothing. Avoid: held (collides with the Pack's Held recipe), level
Node: A pipe, a storage tank or a port: one position in a segment, with a capacity and the faces it opens. Avoid: part, pipe (a pipe is one kind of node)
Port:
A Consumer's block entity that joins a segment through the FluidPort API, so a machine fills and drains pipes. It adds no capacity unless it says so.
Avoid: connector, fluid face (a face is NeoForge's capability on one side of a block)
Fluid inventory: A block beside a node that is no node itself but exposes a fluid handler on the facing side, such as another mod's tank or machine. It moves fluid in and out of a segment through that handler and never joins it. Avoid: machine (a port is often one), foreign tank, fluid face
Arm: What a pipe draws towards a side where fluid can move: a node it is linked to, or a fluid inventory. Avoid: connection, link (a link is between two nodes in a segment; an arm is only what is drawn)
Closed side: A side of a pipe a player has shut, where it links to no node and moves no fluid with a fluid inventory. Closing the face between two nodes closes it on both. Every side starts open, and a port's sides are its own to open. Avoid: disconnected side, wrenched side, blocked side
Creative pipe: A pipe in every way but its refill: it keeps its segment full of the fluid its screen sets it to, with no recipe. A segment has at most one fluid among its creative pipes. Avoid: infinite pipe, source block (collides with the game's fluid source blocks)
Mixing: Joining two segments that hold different fluids. A player's placement that would is refused. Avoid: contamination
Fluid item: An item that holds fluid through NeoForge's fluid item capability: a bucket, or another mod's portable tank. Used on a pipe or tank, a full one empties into the segment whole or not at all, and any other fills from the segment's fluid (5thlayer/factoryworks ADR-0121). The creative pipe takes it as the fluid its screen sets instead. Avoid: container, barrel (FactoryWorks' former 50 mB container, removed by ADR-0121)
Waiting node: A node that would mix two fluids if it joined, so it is in no segment and has no fluid slot. It joins once it no longer would. Avoid: orphan, isolated node
Pump: The machine that draws a still source block beside it into its segment. A source in the infinite-source tag, water by default, stays in place and gives a fixed rate; any other is taken whole, as a bucket would take it. Avoid: Offshore Pump, in-line pump (a pump that moves fluid along a pipe, which is not built)
Outlet: The machine that sets its segment's fluid down as a source block in the space it faces, a bucket's worth at a time, once the segment holds one and the space is empty or replaceable. It never picks fluid up. Avoid: drain, spout, fluid placer
Dismantle Family:
The pipes a Groundworks Dismantle takes up as one span: the block tag pipeworks:dismantle/pipes, joined only where each pipe draws an arm toward the other, so a closed side ends a span.
Avoid: dismantle group
Works tab:
The creative tab the suite's mods share, libworks:works, registered by the libworks runtime the Module nests. Every Pipeworks item shows there; Pipeworks registers no tab of its own (FactoryWorks ADR-0128).
Avoid: Pipeworks tab, creative tab (alone)
Pipeworks: This Module. Avoid: Library, Binding
Consumer: A mod that builds against this Module: the FactoryWorks Pack, or another Module. Avoid: client (collides with the game's client side), dependent, integration