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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]]
[[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!]]
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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
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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Non-solar
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.
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=== Coal Boilers ===
Small Coal Boiler is your first boiler. It will accept all kinds of coal as fuel (not compressed blocks), and will produce 6L/t of steam and 20 [[Pollution]]/s 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. Upgrades to the '''High Pressure Coal Boiler''', which burns fuel twice as fast but produces 15L/t of steam while heated, and 30 pollution/s.
=== Solar Boilers ===
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=== High Pressure Lava Boiler ===
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
=== Railcraft Boilers ===
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