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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.
The machines in this era use '''steam''' as energy. Steam is produced in a Boiler, and is used to power machines. The steam needed differs between machines and recipes. If you have extra resources, I’d recommend building 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. A buffer is helpful because many steam machines consume power faster than you're able to generate it with only one or two boilers.
[[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.]]
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File:Example.jpg|More advanced boiler setup picture
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There are multiple Boilers available in Gregtech. All boilers need both water and fuel to produce steam, except the simple solar boiler, which needs to be picked up and placed back every once in a while rather than
There are also Multiblock Boilers available in higher tiers. Information about these Large Boilers will be available in another book. For information on steam power generation options see [https://gtnh.miraheze.org/wiki/Power_Generation_Options here].
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