Network Purist Plus

Network Purist Plus Removes the long (3-, 5-, and 10-segment) straight pipe, chute, and super-heavy cable variants and aligns straight cables to one consistent orientation; existing worlds are converted when a save loads. Full multiplayer compatibility. Safe to add to an existing savegame. What it does Long pieces removed everywhere The merged "long" Straight 3 / 5 / 10 variants are taken out of the game's menus: gas pipes, insulated pipes, liquid pipes, insulated liquid pipes, chutes, and super-heavy cables (the only cable tier with long variants). They are stripped from the build-kit mouse wheel and hidden from the Stationpedia. You build pipes, chutes, and cables one tile at a time, the way it worked before the merge feature was added. The merge-with-a-tool action can no longer produce a long piece either. Existing long runs rebuilt on load When a save loads, every already-placed long pipe, chute, or cable run is rebuilt from the equivalent single-tile pieces at the same cells, rotation and custom colour. Networks stay connected, but rebuilt pipe runs start empty -- the gas is not preserved; re-pressurise them. This is a one-time conversion the first time you load a world after installing the mod (and again for any world a long piece sneaks into). The long variants are gone from the build menus, so there is no way to build one directly; a long piece that turns up some other way (a blueprint paste, another mod, the creative menu) is converted on the next world load. Cable alignment A straight cable is a tube with a coloured band along the side, but the game lets it be placed at any of four "rolls" about its run direction, so a cable next to one placed a different way shows the band misaligned (most visible on super-heavy cables, and common where zoop-built and hand-built cables meet). This mod picks one orientation per run axis and applies it: every placed straight cable is realigned when a save loads, and a freshly built cable snaps to the canonical orientation t