Thanks for making this mod!

While I like the pipes with restricted connections and the separate line for all the pipes and pumps, I use a valve from another mod, which I consider far superior to the valves from the valve mod. Still, the 3 valves I will never use show up in the recipe list, even worse, the valve mod I use and the one you made a mandatory dependency share the same icon.

Could you consider making the valves mod an optional dependency?
As far as I can tell, the valves are not a requirement to use the functionality you provide.

Cheers and keep up the good work!

This. There's now alternatives (like Configurable Valves, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/configurable-valves, though from the same author as the original Valves mod), and nothing in this mod actually depends on Valves anyway. I removed it from the info.json and the mod runs just fine, so there's no reason for Valves to be a hard dependency of this mod. Or a dependency period, tbh.

I agree, and have updated to make it optional

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I added the valves to Flow Control years ago as a bonus extra because they were very simple (just a matter of changing a single property in the entity definition) and were kind of useful at the time. But now the purely passive method they used doesn't work because of the fluid simulation changes in 2.0, and they're less necessary because you can do things like directly turn chemical plants on and off via circuit conditions, so you don't need pumps/valves to build an oil refinery that automatically cracks excess light and heavy oil (as an example).