Improving your Builds with Heavy Pipes

To let you all know, I'm not trying to teach you one exact technique that can be only done one way. I try to give you a few methods and tips on what possibilites there are, and to inspire you to make your own.

Pipes can look good on any building, may it be an old, comfy cottage or a futuristic space factory. It's like putting a cherry on ice cream.

But how you place those pipes clearly depends on the location you have or are going for. If it's a crammed, industrial area you do want to place these pipes in every corner and if it's just your small, wooden house you only want to put one or two in.



On stuff like spas, restaurants or houses it's better to keep those heavy pipes a bit more hidden, like keeping them in the corner of a corridor. That way those pipes maybe go unnoticed, but makes the overall building look more detailled.

Theres something magical about those pipes. For the most part, I'll use them to make my builds look more detailled and logical, wich makes them one of my favorie blocks in starbound.

The best way to place them is to keep them at the end/sides of the room, going vertically down, maybe make it split into two pipes near the floor or ceiling. And of course, keep them on the background, unless you want to make some kind of complex pipe system or simply to block a path.



I want you to take a good look at the screenshots above, they give a better example of what I am trying to explain. If you want to go full-logic mode, you cam make them connected between some rooms with their individual colors. It's best to have only a few types of colors for your different pipes, so it doesn't look too chaotic there. You can also even give each color their own use, like one for oxygen, the other one for water (...) Of course, they do not really have a use outside of aesthetics, unless you use mods but it's still a pretty cool thing to have.


Some more methods you can do is to just make pipes to turn a small corner, like the white pipe in the last screenshot above. You can also see a small room with pipes above, stuff like this can even be see on the normal outpost. It's not just eye candy, but can be pretty practical to replace walls or make your room smaller. It has a more logical use too, to make these pipes look connected and have an actual system. I recommend you use techniques such as this one on more industrial builds, maybe even laboratories.

So yes, it's always useful to have a few spare Heavy Pipes while building your house. I hope I've helped you somehow, maybe even inspired you with my more or less - clumsy guide. I plan to improve and do more of these in the future, why not give me some ideas on what kind of block or topic you want to see a guide of.

Thank you very much for your attention!