What makes using the separate pipe network laggier? A similar number of pipes should be scanned per item in the worst case, since the intermediate pipe would be around the same length as the storage pipe, and the intermediate products would now only be looking at the new pipe and not the storage pipe. It would also avoid trying to store into the main storage’s item barrels or into item barrels used to output onto the storage network. I don’t know anything about the pathfinding code though.
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