Tanks
Tanks can be used to store oil, fuel, water, or lava. They have varying capacity based on their construction. Tanks can be stacked. Tanks placed next to each other will not be connected.
Liquids can be transported with waterproof pipes and deposited into tanks by connecting the pipe directly to the tank. Liquids can be withdrawn from tanks using buckets, or wooden waterproof pipes powered by an engine. The engine must be connected to the wooden waterproof pipe in order for the liquid to be extracted.
- Capacity: 16 buckets
- Upgradable To Copper Tank, Iron Tank
The glass tank isn't actually a tank added by the mod. Its just the name used conversationally by this documentation for the standard tank in Buildcraft.
- Capacity: 27 buckets
- Upgrades: Iron Tank, Silver Tank
- Capacity: 32 buckets
- Upgradable To: Gold Tank
You can create it using either a regular tank or a Copper tank. If you use the latter, you only need half of the iron ingots.
You can also use Industrial Craft Refined Iron ingots instead of regular iron ingots in both recipes.
- Capacity: 43 buckets
- Upgradable To: Gold Tank
- Capacity: 48 buckets
- Upgradable To: Diamond Tank
- Capacity: 64 buckets
- Upgradable To: Obsidian Tank
- Capacity: 64 buckets
- Upgradable To: None
The obsidian tank is completely unaffected by creeper or TNT explosions and thus provides a safe way of storing your resources.
- Capacity: 16 buckets
- Upgradable To: None
The void tank will destroy any fluid contained within the tank. The void tank will stack with other tanks; if you place the tank at the top of a stack filled with fluid and the fluid rises up and into the void tank, that fluid will be destroyed, making for a convenient way to prevent overflow.
- Capacity: 1 bucket
- Upgradable To: None
The creative tank has no recipe, it can only be granted to a user or taken from the creative inventory. The creative tank only technically holds one bucket, however an infinite amount of the contained fluid can be extracted. Once a creative tank contains fluid, the only way to empty it is to break and replace the tank.