Talk:Distribution Transport Pipe/@comment-71.228.153.159-20121015040219

This would be used in a case where you need some of a resource to be used in one way, and some in another. A great example is tin and copper dust. If you set up a "normal" automated line to macerate and smelt all ores using the standard 100% pipes, you would not have tin and copper dust left over to make bronze. With one of these you can run a particular item (ie copper dust) and send perhaps 20% one direction to make bronze with and 80% the other, to smelt into bars. Or say you have a quarry mining a massive amount of cobblestone and a little good stuff. Split out individual item types with a normal diamond pipe, then use the advanced distribution pipe to keep 5% of the cobble for stone and send the other 95% through a recycler or alchemical chest.