Best way to store liquids?

[Eotf]

So far I only know of the tanks. Is there any other method that can store a big amount of liquids?

[Kalbintion]

Resonant tanks hold 64 buckets (64000mB) of a liquid and could be put into an array.

[Eotf]

Would they cause lag if I had alot of them?

[Kalbintion]

No, they're fairly lag free, even in a few thousand. I'm not sure how many of them you'd need to start causing lag.

[johne16]

I would say open block tanks becuase they can store a lot

[Turgle]

I would say open block tanks becuase they can store a lot

OpenBlocks tanks can store 16,000 mB per tank, Thermal Expansion has tanks which can hold up to 4x that amount per block, which is the best way to store liquids (depending on your requirements).

[wabajck]

While the TE tanks can hold more the Openblocks tanks are cheaper to make and look better when full of liquids such as molten metal. You can even edit the Openblocks config to have their tanks hold more buckets.

Edited April 21, 2014 by wabajck

[Kalbintion]

Editing the config would prevent you from being able to log into servers due to the changes between client and server. And if you are, you may end up crashing from this change.

[johne16]

Wab is right open blocks are cheaper but for the 64 tank it takes a lot

from tin to invar to hardend glass to enderium

Edited April 21, 2014 by johne16

[Kalbintion]

You can go with the hardened version, which holds twice as much as the openblocks tanks and arent as expensive.

[johne16]

Well for only mining 4 obsidian and 5 glass panes it is cheaper then the thermal expansion tanks

Edited April 22, 2014 by johne16

[DanielUSA]

The open blocks tanks can be used to create an infinite amount of space. When you place them together they share any liquid between them. You could therefore store a whole world full of a liquid in them. Also the open block tanks are completely transparent so you could fill them up with molten obsidian and use them as a decoration block. Alternate with liquid xp in open block tanks and you can have a checkerboard green and purple wall. Also if you click on them with a bucket you can fill up directly from the open block.

 

The thermal expansion tanks are good for having them in a set up which needs a visual que. For example if you want to place liquid ducts to a remote area then instead of a liquid pipe you can place a thermal expansion tank. The tank will fill up and then push the liquid through to the rest of the pipe if any is attached. If you stop producing a liquid the tank will output its storage. It comes with markers that gives you an estimate of how much liquid you have left. Having multiples of this type of tank costs resources and they don't attach to each other except on the ends. You can also specify if you want to input only or output only. You can also have one end on input and the other on output.