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Debate: Fluid API
- Unit
  - Facts
  - Approaches
- API
  - Prior art

Debate: Fluid API

Unit

Facts

Vanilla says:
- There are three bottles to a bucket. (cauldron)
- One fluid block is equal to one bucket. (…buckets)
The SME (Standardized Modding Environment) says:
- There are one thousand millibuckets to a bucket. (Forge)
- We'd like to be able to divide by 9*9=81, to cover nugget → block liquid metals. (Tinkers' Construct fans)
- We'd like our fluid to void as rarely as possible, preferably never.

Approaches

Choose a denominator! (Shouldn't be too small, or too large.)
- The Metric Option: 1000.
- The Silk Option: 1620.
- Millibottles: 3000 mb = 1000 mB = 3 bottles = 1 bucket.
- Others: 900, 1800, 3600 (getting a bit high…)
~~Use BigDecimals!~~ wait no that's still pretty metric
Use rational numbers!

API

Prior art

Silk's fluid API by Prospector