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The '''Steam Age''' is heavily dependent on Bronze, an alloy of Tin and Copper. You should already have made some to have gotten this far, but if not the dust can be mixed in a crafting table after using a mortar to grind down copper and tin ingots into their dust forms, then smelted in any Furnace. While some other early alloys can also be made this way, a Mixer will be needed for higher tier stuff later on, and Mixers also sometimes give a better ratio of return. Another option is the Alloy Smelter, which can make Bronze Ingots directly from one tin and three copper ingots. Make plenty of bronze as multiple stacks are needed to build your first basic infrastructure.
== Goals ==
* Boilers
* Steam Machines
* Bricked Blast Furnace
* Nether
== Steam ==
[[File:TooltipBronzeFluidPipe.png|thumb|alt=Black tooltip for Bronze Fluid Pipe stating a Fluid Capacity of 2,400 liters per second and a heat limit of 2,000 K.|Hover over pipes to see a tooltip.]]The machines in this era use '''steam''' as energy. Steam is produced by [[#Boilers|boilers]] that combinine heat and water, and is used to power machines at a rate of 2 Steam:1 EU. The amount of steam needed is determined by the recipe. Adding water to a dry but heated boiler will cause an [[explosion]]. Coal and Solar Boilers are otherwise immune to rain and fire.
[[File:ExplodingSteamPipes.gif|thumb|alt=short animation of a dark brown wood pipe leaking white steam, then exploding and catching the nearby boiler on fire.|Do ''not'' use wooden pipes for steam!]]
There are 20 ticks (/t) in a second (/s), so when 6mB/t or 6L/t is mentioned, it equates to 120Liters/s or 120L/s▼
Steam is hot. Wooden pipes can't handle steam - they'll leak, and eventually blow up, catching fire to nearby blocks. Don't touch uncovered pipes filled with steam or stand near the vents of steam machines; these cause contact damage. Wooden pipes can be used for transporting water to the boilers, but steam needs metal pipes with a higher Heat Limit. Luckily all that bronze you just made will do nicely.
GregTech uses a different method of measuring fluids than most mods.
* 1mB = 1 Liter or 1L
* 1 bucket = 1000 Liter = 1 cubic meter = 1 block worth of fluid
▲* There are 20 ticks (/t) in a second (/s), so when 6mB/t or 6L/t is mentioned, it equates to 120Liters/s or 120L/s
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== Boilers ==
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File:Gregtech Boiler Simple.jpg|Simple Boiler setup picture
File:BasicSteamPipeBuffer.png|thumb|alt=a 3x3 dark wood water tank feeding wooden fluid pipes to three orange and brick coal boilers, connected to more bronze pipes that lead to three steam tier single block machines, connecting to their bottom sides.|[[Water Tank]], Coal Boilers and machines
File:BasicSteamRCTankBuffer.png|alt=Dark brown wooden water tank on fence legs, feeding water via wooden fluid pipes into three bronze solar boilers. Orange bronze pipes connect the boilers to a white 3x5 tank with glass windows. Lower bronze pipe on the other side connects to machines.|Solar boilers, with [[Railcraft Tank]] as buffer
File:SteamSetupNoWaterPipes.jpg|alt=Dark brown wooden water tank on fence legs, feeding water via wooden fluid pipes into three bronze coal boilers. The coal boilers feed into bronze pipes connected to three steam machines.|Coal Boilers, using [[Water Tank]]'s auto-output.
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There are also Multiblock Boilers available in higher tiers. Information about these Large Boilers will be available in another book.▼
Non-solar boiler sides can be used for both steam or water. The bottom side only accepts water and the top only outputs steam - these are the recommended faces to use since it avoids the possibility of getting water or steam in the wrong pipe. A steady water supply, such as a [[Water Tank]], must be provided to boilers to avoid [[explosion]]s. If a boiler is allowed to heat up dry or runs out of water while heated, and water is then added to the hot boiler it will explode, potentially taking out other nearby machines.
If you have extra resources, build an Iron Tank (Railcraft) and use it as a steam buffer between the Boilers and machines. Until you have an Iron Tank, you can use a line of Large or Huge Bronze Fluid Pipe between the boiler(s) and machines to buffer steam instead. A buffer is helpful because many steam machines consume power faster than you're able to generate it with only one or two boilers.
▲There are also Multiblock Boilers available in higher tiers.
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Solar boliers use no fuel; instead they must have a clear view of the sky to heat up, producing up to 6L/t. Solars can be placed under glass and other non-solid blocks without issues, but will not function if covered by water. Solar output begins to diminish after running for more than 3.5 hours cumulative of real time. Wrench and replace solar boilers to reset them, or supply distilled water. Distilled water is only economical much later when it can be produced cheaply. Unlike other boilers, solars will only send steam through its square marked side; default side for this is the back side, but it can be rotated to any side face with the wrench. '''High Pressure Solar Boilers''' are the upgraded version of this block, outputting three times as much steam and never shutting down fully even when calcified. After 3.5 hours their output will be the same as a simple solar and remain that way until reset.
▲This is your first Boiler. It will accept all kinds of coal as fuel (not compressed blocks), and will produce 6L/t of steam while heated. When the boiler is fully heated one piece of charcoal will last for 360 seconds. During the heating process one charcoal lasts 96 seconds.
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This is the most efficient single block Boiler. It uses lava as fuel and produces 30L/t of steam while heated and 20 pollution/s. One bucket of lava equals to 200,000L of steam at full heat. The downside is the difficulty of collecting or creating lava to run it, and the 15 steel crafting cost. The Lava Boiler creates 300L of steam from 1L of water, twice as much as most boilers.
=== Railcraft Boilers ===
Railcraft also offers a set of [[Railcraft Boiler|multiblock boilers]] that produce steam with solid or liquid fuels.
== Steam Machines ==
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=== High Pressure Steam Machines ===
These machines are upgraded versions of the other
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