Steam Grinder: Difference between revisions

The Steam grinder is a macerator multiblock added by [[GT++]]. Although it behaves much like other GT++ multiblocks, it is notorious for being available at the steam age, being powered by steam rather than EU, and not needing maintenance.

 

== Construction ==

 

Crafting the bronze plated bricks and the input and output buses needs only tin, copper, gold, and clay. The controller also requires 2 diamonds and 2 pistons, and the steam hatch needs one steel plate.

Finally, observe that '''steam hatches can only provide about 40L steam/tick to the steam grinder''', which limits the parallel processing. For example, pulverizing charcoal takes 8L steam/tick in a steam macerator. Processing 8 at a time in a steam grinder would require <math>\lceil 8 \times 8 \times 2/3 \rceil = 43</math>L steam/tick, which is more than 40, so the steam grinder only pulverizes 7 pieces of charcoal at a time. Sand can only be processed 4 at a time, as pulverizing 5 sand would require <math>\lceil 5 \times 14 \times (2/3) \rceil = 47</math>L steam/tick. And anything that costs more than 32L steam/tick to pulverize (like coke oven bricks) gets no parallel processing at all; for these recipes, the steam grinder is actually slower than a single High Pressure Macerator. Adding more steam hatches to the grinder does not help, as the grinder only pulls steam from one hatch at a time.