Idea for an addon mod - Corporea Fluids

mathwiz617

I've noticed that there is only one way to manage fluids with corporea - through buckets. That may be good enough for basic Botania, seeing as there's only water, lava, and milk, but with many other mods adding fluids, it would be nice to have a way to manage fluids over long distances. As a certified AE2 disliker, I like the idea of corporea having a fluid transfer method.

I was thinking this - a "corporea droplet". Similar to a spark, but this would go on a fluid tank. It would then link to a corporea network as normal. A requester with a droplet would only request fluids, chosen from item frames on it as usual. A container with a droplet would only send fluids (in the case of mods having item & fluid containers). A Crystal cube would monitor the fluid in mB (or just B), instead of number of filled buckets. Finally, a player could not request the fluid through indexes or cubes directly.

Wormbo

I get where the idea comes from, but I'm not sure it's something base Botania would really benefit from. If you play just Botania, there are no fluid storages, other than buckets.
The next thing is, Fabric and (Neo)Forge have somewhat differing ways to represent fluid amounts. The basic unit on Fabric is the droplet, and a bucket is 81k droplets. A bottle or bowl is 27000 droplets, an "ingot" is 9000 droplets and a "nugget" is 1000 droplets. Those seem like amounts Fabric fluid containers might be interested in. Botania's item flavor of automated requests uses the rotation of an item in a frame to specify a stack size, but that only allows for 8 possible values.
And the other thing is how Corporea actually extracts items from containers – by pulling them out from the top of the container, as that's where the spark is. I'm not sure that translates too well to various fluid containers, which might only allow pulling fluids via certain sides, potentially even only via certain blocks of a multiblock structure. The usual "Corporea way" of interfacing with containers would likely not be able to access certain fluid containers at all. Similarly, Corporea Funnels insert items into their target container from the top. That also might not work with every fluid container, especially multiblocks or machines with dedicated input sides for various kinds of inputs.

Long story short, this might be better suited as an add-on project.