Okay i understand. But is No Pipe Touching not incompatible with this mod?
"I thought about adding deeper pipes, but it would require a lot of graphical considerations and a total rewrite of the current runtime scripting. " And what if you use a similar principle to NPT? You add a new Sort of Pipe, called "Deeper Pipe". There are 2 oder more tiers, every tier is a little bit more expensive. This new Pipes also have a correspondig underground connection pipe an maybe, this more deeper underground connection Pipes need Energy, so that the Player will be forced use deeper underground pipes only in raw situations.