Railcraft Tank
Railcraft tanks are available the moment you can make iron parts. They are an excellent steam buffer early on.
You can also build them with the Assembling Machine once you get one.
Type | Size per Block | Max Size |
---|---|---|
Iron | 16 buckets | 10,308 buckets |
Steel | 32 buckets | 20,736 buckets |
Aluminum | 64 buckets | 41,472 buckets |
Stainless Steel | 128 buckets | 82,944 buckets |
Titanium | 256 buckets | 165,888 buckets |
Tungstensteel | 512 buckets | 331,776 buckets |
Palladium | 1024 buckets | 663,552 buckets |
Iridium | 1534 buckets | |
Osmium | 2048 buckets | 1,327,104 buckets |
Neutronium | 3072 buckets |
The size doesn't double each time because of an internal limit on the integer type used by Java.
The edges of the tank MUST be tank walls. You cannot mix the material types. The bottom of the tank MUST be square, and an odd number (3x3, 9x9, etc). The tank can be between 4 and 8 blocks high.
Any valve placed in the bottom layer will output down at 1 bucket per tic (1000L/t). The valve must be in the bottom two layers if you want it to output, but valves that are not on the bottom-most layer will not auto-output. You can input from valves anywhere else including the second to bottom layer.
The cheapest maximum size tank of any given material will have the edges be tank walls, everything else be tank gauges except the input and output valves. For a 9x8x9 tank, you need 88 walls, 264 gauges, and 2 valves.