Steam Age: Difference between revisions

In this era, you’ll need mostly bronze. Bronze is made with tin and copper. To make bronze dust you’ll need to use the Mortar on tin and copper ingots to turn them into dust. The dusts can then be combined into Bronze Dust which can then be smelted inside a furnace. Once you have crafted your Alloy Smelter, you can craft 4 bronze ingots from 1 tin and 3 copper.

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 large bronze pipes between machines to store a small amount of steam.

Steam is hot. You’ll need decent pipes to avoid accidents with steam leaks. Wooden pipes can be used for transporting water to the boilers,; using wooden pipes for steam might harm you.

There are also Multiblock Boilers available in higher tiers,. Information about these Large Boilers will be available in another book.

To avoid problems with automation of these boilers, it is recommended to input water from below and output steam from the top since the sides can be used for both auto input and output, causing steam to get into your water pipes.

Also unlike other boilers, The Simple solar boiler will only extract steam through its output square side,; default side for this is the back side.

All Steam Machines will have an exhaust side,; default side for this is the back side. (The square you see on the machines in the picture above is the exhaust) The Machine will exhaust steam every time it has completed an operation. If the Exhaust is blocked the machine will not be able to complete its operation. You can change the side of this exhaust with a GT Wrench.

The Alloy Smelter is used to combine two kinds of materials together to create a new material. It can be used to produce bronze with less loss compared to crafting bronze dust with your hands, and also to make your first rubber bars.

The Compressor is used to compress items,; for example ingots into blocks, nuggets into ingots. It uses 4L/t of steam and is compressing a single item for 40 seconds, resulting in a total steam cost of 3200 steam.

These machines are upgraded versions of the other Steam Machines. They will drain steam 3x as fast as Steam Machines, but work at double speed. WhichThis means that the Steam consumption is doubled compared to Steam Machines.