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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.
== 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 in a Boiler, and is used to power machines. The amount of steam needed
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Steam is hot.
Also note that GregTech uses a different method of measuring fluids.
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* 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|thumb|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
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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 fuelled. They produce steam in different rates and use more fuel the more advanced they are.
There are also Multiblock Boilers available in higher tiers. Information about these Large Boilers will be available in another book. For information on
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=== Explosion Risk ===
Adding water to a dry but heated Boiler will cause an explosion. Coal and Solar Boilers are otherwise immune to rain and fire.
=== Small Coal Boiler (Bronze) ===
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This is the most efficient single block Boiler. It uses lava as fuel and produces 30L/t while heated.
1 bucket of lava equals to 200,000L of steam while it is heated.
=== Railcraft Boilers ===
Railcraft also offers a set of [[Railcraft Boiler|multiblock boilers]] that produce steam with soild or liquid fuels.
== Steam Machines ==
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