I cannot for the life of me connect to an oil rig in the cargo ship mod in combination with depths of Nauvis, Talandar cargo ship tweaks. Just mentioned that.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

well... seems you guys really want the pipes to directly connect. it ins't supposed to work that way, but anyway.

I'll revert the change, gime me 10 minutes to check nothing breaks.

done, may u check now? as a small bonus, now newly built underwater-pipes are untargetable by enemies.

Hey it works. Thanks. How was it suppose to work, I tried both pumps. I get that you want ships to sail in and pickup, but there should be a way to connect to keep whatever patches are there, to come together at a central point. I had a couple of small patches close to the island. The only thing I could get to work was to build docks with pipes on them. Underwater pipes will look so much better plus ships can pass through. Thanks again.

well, the intended logic behind is: as the pipes are underwater you need a way to "move" the liquids up and down (over-water and under-water), or at least a visual element that gives that sensation, so it doesn't look weird.

that's why before this update, you'll need to use the undergroud-normal pipes to connect to the underground-underwater pipes, giving that sensation of transportation.

now, however, if you literally try to just built pipes on the coast, you practically can build normally, just start placing the underwater ones when you reach the water. at the end, the visual effect it gives is odd, but it works (which is what most people actually want)

I just fixed it, and yes, it does look odd but oh well. If there is some way you can modify the water pump, that may look better. At least that gives the appearance of going down or up.

maaaaayybe adding a custom water-pump yeah, but that would just kill most factories out there xd.

i may leave it like this, it works. one extra thing that i want to add however, is increase the flow rate/capacity, and the maxium extension, so players, can use them to transport greater amounts of liquids over even longer distances.