Ranged Pumps
by Refined Mods
With Ranged Pumps, a pump placed in the world draws liquids from a wider area than the vanilla blocks cover, scanning up to 64 blocks in each direction.
What it does
A placed pump scans a rectangular spiral pattern starting one block below it and moves outward, nearest blocks first, until it reaches the configured range. Vertical scanning covers the Y levels down to bedrock, and liquids it removes are replaced with stone by default. The pump stops running once its internal tank of 32 buckets is full, and the tank size can be raised or lowered in the config. A redstone signal switches the pump off; the behavior can be turned off in the config so the redstone signal is ignored.
The pump does not move liquids by itself into neighboring tanks; it pushes them automatically to adjacent tanks. Other liquids leave the pump through pipes. The mod does not chunkload pumps, so a pump in an unloaded chunk does not keep working. Power for the default pump comes from Forge Energy. Another mod is needed to add the behavior that moves liquids out of the pump into pipes or tanks of other types.
Key features
Ranged liquid collection
Pumps reach liquids up to 64 blocks away by default, scanning in a rectangular spiral from the nearest blocks outward.
Vertical scanning
The scan covers Y levels from the pump down to bedrock, so liquids below the pump are collected as well.
Redstone control
A redstone signal stops the pump, and the behavior can be turned off in the config.
Configurable tank and range
The internal tank size and the scanning range can be increased or decreased in the config, with 32 buckets and 64 blocks as defaults.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.21.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.20.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.19.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.18.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.15.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.14.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.12.x3 of 3 versions with builds
1.11.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.10.x1 of 1 version with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Create: Better Pumps is open source under the MIT License and runs on Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, with the client and server environment. Create: Western Pump is NeoForge only for 1.21.1, under the MIT License and open source. Ranged Pumps covers Forge and NeoForge across a wider version range, 1.10.2 – 26.1.2, and is open source under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranged Pumps | Forge and NeoForge | 1.10.2 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-13 |
| Create: Better Pumps | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-01-19 |
| Create: Western Pump | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-18 |
Questions
Does Ranged Pumps need Forge Energy?
Does a server need Ranged Pumps installed?
Which versions of Minecraft does Ranged Pumps support?
Why do pumps not move liquids into pipes by themselves?
In the catalog
Ranged Pumps is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,908 Transportation mods for Forge. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Place the pump down, and it'll only work without a redstone signal. If you give the pump a redstone signal, it will stop working until you disable the redstone signal.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/ranged-pumps
- Owner
- Refined Mods
- Published
- 2023-07-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15