Fluids - How to setup Dirty Water processing (v3.0.0-beta.6 and newer)

There are some additional setups required if you are playing EP version 3.0.0-beta.5 and older (See: Fluids - How to setup Dirty Water processing)

For automatic Dirty Water processing you need to set fluid filters in a Fluid Tank. A Dirty Water Bucket is required to do so. Getting the first Dirty Water Bucket is currently a little tricky. You can do the following steps to get a Dirty Water Bucket and to setup a closed Dirty Water processing loop.

Required tools and material

Tools

Wrench

Build Materials

Drain (White block with 9 "holes", not to be confused with the Fluid Drainer)
Fluid Filler
A Water consuming machine which also produces Dirty Water:
- Advanced Pulverizer or
- Advanced Crusher
Filtration Plant
Some Cables which
Any power source (e.g. Solar Panel)
Some Fluid Pipes (Iron, Gold)
2 Fluid Tanks
1 Bucket (empty)
2 Water Buckets
2 Charcoal Filters
Some solid building blocks (e.g. Cobble Stone)

Building instructions (step by step)

1. Preparing the water source

Create an infinite Water source (2x2 water blocks). Dump the first Water Bucket in the top left corner and the second one in the bottom right corner. Place a Drain (White block with 9 "holes", not to be confused with the Fluid Drainer) below any of the four water source blocks (It will immediately start to extract Water). Afterwards you should place Fluid Pipes which are connected to the Drain and configure the first pipe to the Extraction mode. This can be done with a Wrench by selecting a block face with the left mouse button and by changing the pipe mode with the right mouse button.

2. Inserting some Water into a machine

Place the Water consuming machine next to a Fluid Pipe and connect a power source. You need to fill up the water tank (at least 2.00k mB). Afterwards you should disconnect the Fluid Pipe, because Water will be converted to Dirty Water as a by-product.

3. Processing items in the machine

Now you should keep processing items until the Water tank is empty and the Dirty Water tank has at least (2.00k mB).

4. Extracting Dirty Water

Now you can place a Fluid Pipe in extraction mode next to the block - not on the same side as the other pipe - and pump the Dirty Water into a Fluid Tank.

5. Getting a Dirty Water Bucket

Now you can place another Fluid Pipe in extraction mode next to the Fluid Tank and pump the Dirty Water into a Fluid Filler. There you can insert an empty bucket which will produce a Dirty Water Bucket.

6. Setting the Fluid Filter and processing Dirty Water

With the Dirty Water Bucket you can set the filter in the Fluid Tank. Afterwards you can break the Fluid Filler and replace it with a Filtration Plant. The Filtration Plant can convert Dirty Water back to normal Water (The Filtration Plant requires Charcoal Filters to do so and a recipe must be selected).

7. Closing the fluid loop

Now you can place another Fluid Tank and set the filter to Water before you connect the Fluid Pipe.

8. Jump-starting the fluid loop

Now you can connect the infinite Water source back to the Water consuming machine. If the Water tank is full, you can disconnect the Water supply again. The system is now a closed loop - the infinite Water source is no longer required. If you'd like to build another Dirty Water processing loop, you should keep the Dirty Water Bucket to set the filter of the Fluid Tank.