Vanilla pipes are already powerful the moment you place one — there's no reason to ever upgrade them. Advanced Fluid Infrastructure adds a staged pipe, pump, and fluid-routing progression so early builds stay compact and high-throughput, long-range networks become a real investment.

Features
- Upgraded pipes and pipe-to-ground tiers with increasing pipeline extent and underground reach
- Matching pumps and offshore pumps with tiered pumping speed
- Dedicated technologies gating each major upgrade
- Space Age branches for regular surfaces, space platforms, Vulcanus, and late-game foundation infrastructure
- Production-machine fluidbox extent patches so upgraded infrastructure behaves consistently around machines
- Optional compatibility cleanup for Rampant Arsenal Fork's reinforced pipes when it's installed

Progression
Starts with constrained iron pipe networks and expands through steel, rubber-lined, reinforced, and foundation-tier infrastructure. Space platforms get their own low-pressure steel entry point; Vulcanus starts heat-resistant and advances into tungsten; foundation infrastructure converges everything into the final long-range backbone tier, with high-pressure foundation pumps adding late-game compression without a whole new pipe tier.

Requirements
- Factorio 2.1 + Space Age
- Optional: compatibility cleanup for Rampant Arsenal Fork

Companion mods
Advanced Fluid Infrastructure is one of three companion mods — this one for pipes and pumps, Advanced Energy Grid for poles and transmission, and Advanced Power Infrastructure for generation and storage. Each works fine standalone, but the progression is designed with all three installed.