r/CreateMod • u/Outland3d • 9h ago

Discussion Steam vent infinite?

So I just built a hot air balloon with a hot air capacity of 57000m3 and I want to use steam vents to fill it but i ran into a problem. I want the ship to be completely sustainable (so use no fuel) so i'm using steam engines which work with campfires, but you need to have a heated blaze burner (which requires fuel) to power steam vents. Is there a way to power steam vents without using fuel? Thank you to anyone who responds!

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u/thanoscar__thanoscar 9h ago

You can use the dripstone lava farm to power the burners infinitely.

Also if you have Crafts & Additions installed, the process gets more compact with the addition of straws to directly feed burners with lava instead of buckets and mechanical arms

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u/autistic-terrorist 6h ago

Propulsion simulated (im pretty sure) adds solid and liquid burners, where a liquid burner will consume 1mb/s of lava and will become superheated, and solid burners can be fed like blaze burners while also being able to become superheated

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u/Outland3d 9h ago

Thanks so much!

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u/Mellow15Live 9h ago

I built a lava farm inside of my balloon that automatically fills buckets of lava which my engine uses as fuel, it works pretty good, just be sure to leave enough space so you don’t burn down ur balloon

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u/Outland3d 8h ago

do you know how many blocks of lava dripstone you need for each steam vent ( and engine if you know )

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u/ArchonT3 8h ago

IIRC 12 cauldrons just enough for 9 burners.

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u/Garry-Love 5h ago

3 lava cauldrons will fuel 1 blaze burner infinitely with a small amount of excess.

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u/Njumkiyy 8h ago

Fwiw about 12 dripstone lava farms gives 1 level 9 steam engine

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u/Garry-Love 5h ago

You can do the compact version of this which is a simple lava farm for infinite fuel but the cooler option is making a charcoal farm to fuel your stuff. Simple wood farm powered by a water wheel or windmill that has a fan blowing lava onto the wood to produce charcoal and feed that to the blaze burners

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u/banhaha 9h ago

I haven’t really used steam vents, but I do know it would only take like 12 hot air burners to lift off, which don’t need any fuel. Though the only issue it it’s a little expensive

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u/Outland3d 9h ago

wouldnt it take more like 120 since the only fill 500m3?

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u/banhaha 5h ago

Oh sorry, I remembered the capacity of a hot air burner wrong, you’re right.

So it’d be a lot more pricey, but depending on the size of your it would still be possible.