Fluids and Hose

Fluids and Hose

Every backpack has two tanks. You fill and empty them with buckets and bottles in the backpack window, or with the Backpack Hose, which also lets you drink what is in them.

Type	Item (Backpack Hose)
Stack size	1
Obtained by	Crafting
Config section	hose, enabled.hose, backpack.tankCapacity

The tanks

Each tank holds 4000 mB by default, which is four buckets (1000 mB is one bucket). The value is in Configuration. Each tank holds one fluid at a time.

Every tank has two container slots in the backpack window:

• Put a full bucket, bottle or other container in the input slot and the tank takes the fluid. The empty container appears in the output slot.
• Put an empty container in the input slot and the tank fills it, if it has fluid. The full container appears in the output slot.

It works with any container that Forge knows as a fluid container, including the ones from other mods.

Four backpacks make their own fluid: the Cactus makes water, the Melon makes melon juice, the Cow makes milk and the Mooshroom makes mushroom stew. See Backpacks.

The mod adds three fluids of its own, Milk, Melon Juice and Mushroom Stew, plus Steam for the jetpack and Air for the scuba gear. If another mod already has a fluid with the same name, that one is used. The Melon Juice Bottle is the container for melon juice: craft it from a melon slice and a water bottle. A bowl of mushroom stew and a bucket of milk work as containers too. Each holds 1000 mB.

The Backpack Hose

The hose works on the tanks of the backpack you wear. Without a worn backpack it is called "Hose: Useless / No Backpack" and does nothing. It has two settings: which tank it uses (left or right), and which mode.

Mode	Right click on...	What happens
Suck	A source block of water, lava or another fluid	Takes the whole bucket into the tank. It is skipped if the bucket does not fit, and flowing blocks never count.
Suck	A tank or machine of another mod	Pulls up to 1000 mB per click into the backpack tank.
Spill	A block	Puts the fluid down as a block. It needs a full bucket in the tank. Water spilled in the Nether evaporates.
Spill	A tank or machine of another mod	Pushes up to 1000 mB per click into it.
Any	A cow or a mooshroom	Adds 1000 mB of milk or mushroom stew to the tank per click.
Drink	Anywhere	Hold the right click. Each sip takes 1.2 seconds and 1000 mB, and gives the fluid's effect.

Drinking works only with fluids that have an effect. Water only affects you in some places. If the tank is empty, or has less than a sip, nothing happens.

The hose follows the same permission checks as a bucket: spawn protection and areas where you cannot build apply to it.

What each fluid does when you drink it

Fluid	Effect
Water	In a hot or dry biome such as a desert, savanna or mesa, in the Nether and in wastelands: puts you out if you are burning, or gives Regeneration I for 7 seconds. Elsewhere, nothing.
Milk	Clears all your potion effects.
Melon Juice	Haste I for 30 seconds, plus the water effect.
Mushroom Stew	Restores 3 drumsticks of hunger.
Lava	Sets you on fire for 15 seconds, and gives Speed III, Jump Boost I and Mining Fatigue IV for 90 seconds.
BuildCraft fuel	Nausea III and Slowness II for 20 seconds, and Poison I for 8 seconds.
BuildCraft oil	Nausea III for 20 seconds, and Poison II for 10 seconds.

The BuildCraft fluids only have an effect when BuildCraft is loaded.

The sips, the transfer amounts and the drink time are in Configuration.

Controls

Action	Control
Change the tank	Press N with the hose in your hand
Change the mode	Turn the mouse wheel with the tool modifier held (Left Shift by default), or use the next and previous tool keys

See Controls for the details and how to change the keys.

Tips

• The window shows what each tank holds. With render.tankHoverText on, it shows as hovering text instead of under the tank.
• The hose does not fit in the tool slots of the backpack. Keep it in your hotbar.

Air

The Scuba Gear breathes a fluid called air. If another mod already registers air, like GregTech, that one is used. If not, Adventure Backpack adds its own, so the gear works alone. Turn that off with scuba.ownAirFluid; the gear then has no recipe unless some other mod brings air or oxygen.

The tanks of the gear and the Air Compressor take the fluids of scuba.breathableFluids: air and oxygen by default. When the air fluid exists, oxygen from another mod is stored as air, so a tank never holds two fluids. Air cells and cans that Forge knows as fluid containers work in the container slots, and the IndustrialCraft 2 Compressed Air Cell too.

Fuels

The Copter Pack, the Flamethrower Pack, the motor of the Motorized Inflatable Boat and the Fuel Station all burn liquid fuel from one list. A fuel is known by the name of its fluid, so any mod that registers a fluid with one of these names brings a fuel. The number is how fast it burns: the cost of everything that uses fuel is multiplied by it, so a higher number empties the tank faster.

Fluid	Burn rate	Brought by
fuel	1.0	BuildCraft, Railcraft, GregTech (diesel)
oil	1.5	BuildCraft
bioethanol	1.2	Forestry, Railcraft, GregTech
biofuel	1.0	Railcraft
creosote	1.8	Railcraft, GregTech
coal	0.8	Thermal Foundation, Railcraft
biomass	1.5	Forestry

No mod is needed on its own: with any one of them loaded, everything that burns fuel works. With none, the Copter Pack and the Flamethrower Pack have no recipe and do nothing, and the Fuel Station takes nothing.

Tanks hold one fuel at a time. The list, and the rates, are in fuels.list; a modpack can add fluids to it or take them out. See Configuration.

See also

Backpacks, Scuba Gear, Fuel Station, Controls, Configuration