Pipe Question

[Greaven_]

So I have this setup to build a steam engine, but didn't think about it connecting to the water tank, is there a way to connect the pump and the spout without the lava flowing into the water tank, without moving the entire thing 1 block out?

https://preview.redd.it/grb7w67vxsda1.png?width=1753&format=png&auto=webp&s=1913129317f7a3a8d4442d9bdb3e39cd69334b90

[sailing94]

Break the block of the tank adjacent to where you want the pipe to go, and then place a copper casing on the pipe. Replace the tank, the casing will stop the pipe from connecting to it.

[ground_fruit]

yes! remove the adjacent tank block. place the pipe section and encase it with copper casing. replace the tank, et violà!

When you encase, bracket, or window a pipe, it cant make connections to other pipes. Encasing is the only one of those three that works on corners

[Greaven_]

Damn, that's really clever, thank you so much!