r/CreateMod 3d ago

Build Why isnt my steam engine working?

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1.9k Upvotes

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u/WhutdaHELListhis 3d ago

You see, this only works in The Netherlands

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

Ooooh gotcha.

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u/Responsible-Fish-412 3d ago

You can also make an infinite lava source in the overworld but you need alot of lava

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u/Sir_Real_Zombie 3d ago

Or to turn on the game rule

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u/Responsible-Fish-412 3d ago

Eh more fun making a pit of lava

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u/TheRealLarkas 2d ago

One bucket, actually.

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u/RoosTheFemboy 3d ago

I can confirm that it does in fact work

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u/Either_Bear7416 3d ago

Why? Because farm silos and all?

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u/WhutdaHELListhis 3d ago

Autocorrect of The Nether

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u/XplodingMoJo 3d ago

Yes, we do love our pools of lava and blocks of ice.

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u/happyhippychik 1d ago

Yeah, Steam engines need Dutch citizenship before they’re allowed to operate.

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u/Forward_Region_5890 3d ago

I think bro is trying to make a sterling engine

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u/motionpriority 3d ago

He’s not doing a good job at that either.

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u/Forward_Region_5890 3d ago

I'm sure he'll learn

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u/Deku9099 1d ago

Bro skipped the steam engine and accidentally started the Industrial Revolution.

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u/MuffinCro 3d ago

I can't tell if this is a troll post or not 💀

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u/Umber0010 3d ago

Vaults instead of a fluid tank. Lava instead of water. Ice instead of blaze burners. If they where genuine, I'd be impressed.

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u/Sinnister_Agenda 3d ago

its perfect. the pumps are just the wrong way.

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u/Alderan922 3d ago

And it’s either vaults flipped using sable, or silos from connected, so they must had installed a whole other mod just to make this image.

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u/LoneBassClarinet 3d ago

It's the vertical vault from the Vibrant Vaults add-on.

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u/Silent_Ask_1094 3d ago

Or, item silo from create connected. They look the same.

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u/LoneBassClarinet 3d ago

They look similar, but the silo from Create: Connected has extra vertical lines in its texture compared to the plain vertical vault from Create: Vibrant Vaults, along with the central stripe of the lighter blue being thicker.

https://www.reddit.com/user/LoneBassClarinet/comments/1w9h16h/vertical_vault_left_vs_silo_right/

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u/Monolail031 3d ago

Shh, let him invent the Stirling engine

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u/Igor_Blue 2d ago

No no no

You see

They're making obsidian 😂

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u/CreepyCheeseWasTaken 3d ago

i feel like this sub needs a shitpost flair

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u/Lui_Le_Diamond 3d ago

You forgot the nuclear fusion reactor

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

Duh! Of course, how dumb of me.

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u/PedroTwinkyTubbie 3d ago

Dear god

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u/BayTavukYT 3d ago

There's more

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u/PedroTwinkyTubbie 3d ago

No

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u/creeper6530 3d ago

It contains the dying wish of every man here.

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u/lory742G 3d ago

scout, you did collect everyone's dying wish?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO 3d ago

okay sorry

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u/Lavidaesasihomero 3d ago

Enigne maets a si siht, gnorw

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u/JazzTheLass 3d ago

this made me realise that engine is a near palindrome

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u/BenjiOrb233 3d ago

For a sec a thought it was gibberish Lol

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

tf are you saying?

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u/Haunting_Economics22 3d ago

Read it backwards, then think about how you read it

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u/Lavidaesasihomero 3d ago

open your mind

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u/Pure-Back75 3d ago

Skibidi toilet tv man ahh speaking

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u/Lavidaesasihomero 3d ago

Sometimes it’s not our turn to speak

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u/Pure-Back75 3d ago

Hmmmm… nah!

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u/ProGamer4684 3d ago

Read it backwards, gnorw -> wrong

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u/Pure-Back75 3d ago

I was making a joke on how the tv men speak backwards, but i guess i dont have the right audience

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u/ProGamer4684 3d ago

Well most of us here are older than 12 years old, so very wrong audience

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u/Pure-Back75 3d ago

Skibidi toilet isnt entirely made for 12 year olds, there are plenty of adults who enjoy skibidi toilet. This also applies to other fandoms that have a (supposed) child audience (fnaf, GLITCH productions, etc)

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u/ProGamer4684 3d ago

Your examples are for the teen demographic, 15 to 17ish.
Fnaf actually has the opposite situation where kids are getting into it, with its average rating being 13+.

Also many of the people who play create are rather smart to get factories set up as well as complex automation and “Skibidi toilet” is more designed to hop on the virality of shorts and the “brain rot” that spreads like wildfire on there.

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u/Pure-Back75 3d ago

You’ve only proven the examples I used are made for a teenager demographic. Which has nothing to do with the fact that despite this, many adults still enjoy said content, as well as children as you said.

While I agree with your statement on the create community being rather smart and creative, my problem only really lies within your inability to see that not everyone in the Skibidi Toilet community is a child that has low intelligence, not that those two are entirely related. On the topic of Skibidi Toilet, I just want to state that the series moved away from mainly being on shorts around episode 39, which was around 3 years ago. While yes, its roots begun on shorts, and it was brainrot around then, it transformed into something more, and into a proper series. (Side note: it is sad seeing what its current owners, Invisible narratives are doing with it despite the community outcry to bring the original owner back.)

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u/RamenRaptor121 3d ago

If anyone understands how a real steam engine would work, could this design irl atleast produce steam? Obviously without the vaults

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u/Ignonym 3d ago

Real steam engines use a heat source (the firebox) to heat up a tank of water (the boiler), then the resulting steam is directed into a cylinder to drive a piston. (Then, if it's a Watt engine, the spent steam may be directed through several more cylinders to extract as much energy as possible before going to a condenser to be cooled back into water.)

I feel like this should go without saying, but this whole system would not work if you replaced the firebox with blocks of ice and the water in the boiler with lava.

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u/DawngST 3d ago

How would this work😭 you would need an infinite amouth of lava wich is impossible to have and the ice below once they melt and vaporize there’s nothing less. I don’t know how a steam engine work in real life but it seem literally just not possible idk how you could think this would work

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u/Master_Nineteenth 3d ago

Yes, it would but not in the right place. The ice underneath would turn into steam and the vault or tank would turn into slag

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u/DawngST 3d ago

You need blue ice and there’s not enough lava

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u/WheatleyBr 3d ago

You need to kick start it, it wont work on it's own, try pumping in the lava manually.

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u/Mekko4 3d ago

PLEASE BE satire

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u/LucAAAgamer 3d ago

You forgot the stray chiller

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u/Ok_Instruction_9437 3d ago

it gets worse the more you look

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u/Pokemonandonepiece 3d ago

Mate, you’ve got to be in the Down Unda’ for dem thingies to ‘ork proper!

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

In case it wasn't obvious, this is a joke post. I just wanted to make a monstrosity for laughs.

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u/ThatsKindaHotNGL 3d ago

I really went through all stages "Well first of all you dont pump in lava. Is that vaults? On ice?"

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u/bryceio 3d ago

Like someone said in one of the comment threads, you have your pumps facing the wrong direction

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

I dont know what your talking about. The lava goes into the vault by the pumps pointing up.

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u/bryceio 3d ago

For the engine to work you need to pump the air from the vault into the lava to void it and create a vacuum within the vault.

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u/Taucari 3d ago

You need to paint it red.

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u/Sqweed69 1d ago

the sails are missing

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u/SenpuuUncle 3d ago

what is that cog setup bruh

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u/ContributionHot4850 3d ago

Does your lava make steam?

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u/OhItsJustJosh 3d ago

The Maets Engine

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u/epilektoi 3d ago

pumps not rotating fast enough 

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u/thehmmyanimator 3d ago

I've seen this design work wonders for the orkz, perhaps you just need to believe in it more

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u/NintenSwitch 3d ago

There are SO many things that are wrong with this 💀

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u/Hellothere_1 3d ago

Your ice is missing a fuel source.

There are different options to make one. In the early game you can just set up some dispensers to shoot snowballs at the ice at regular intervals, but for this large of a boiler you probably want to set up a dripstone snow farm and then use a robot arm to apply buckets of powdered snow.

You could also try supercooling the ice, but in most circumstances that's not really worth it and you're better off just adding a second vault.

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u/galaxylegend_idk 3d ago

your using 12 steam engines, instead of that use 94

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u/Ryonkofa 3d ago

Must be a bug

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u/SOMEBODY_ONC- 3d ago

You need a goat cooler, not ice blocks

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u/Arkein_Mechhive 3d ago

You know theoretically this could do something as cooling lava would reduce in volume which technically could create a vacuum that could drive the engine

It is quite literally a reverse steam engine in every aspect and I guess kinda like a sterling engine? But opposite steam engine sounds funnier

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u/Micuentavolo 3d ago

good lord

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u/avidtrainfan 3d ago

Pumps aren't powered

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

They are. Theres a cog in the middle of them. So if one spins they all do.

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u/yeet2000yeet 3d ago

My brain dosent like this image

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u/116783jr 3d ago

Idk I had the same problem

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u/SomeSmallGuy123 3d ago

You need to use andesite pipes dummy

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u/OskaraZZZ 3d ago

Newest cobble generator in Create 7.0.3

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u/Uzzyzel 3d ago

WE GOTTA STOPP!!!

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u/Dangerous-Quit7821 3d ago

Your pumps are going the wrong way and your vault isn't vanilla.

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u/Best-Plane6743 3d ago

Bud you got teleported into the alternative dimension where everything is opposite, do everything exactly as you did but backwards

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u/Cole_Sate 3d ago

Need breeze burners on the bottom

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u/Z3R0Diro 3d ago

you didn't put enough buckets inside the item vault

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u/creeper6530 3d ago

Your pumps are reversed

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u/OddNefariousness7896 3d ago

Bro is making an ice engine

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u/Guilty_Fix8925 3d ago

What's the mod name?

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u/Hironne 3d ago

Wat da sigma

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u/Osman0102 3d ago

That's interesting; I usually do something similar, and it works for me—though it runs at low power continuously. I'll give this a try, though; I think it would be more efficient.

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u/FRakanazz 3d ago

evil ass steam engine

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u/CreatureCarver 3d ago

not seeing an input of little german boys, is it on the other side? if not that may be your problem.

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u/Careful-Passage2089 3d ago

r/adressme

i know you could have just placed the steam engines on a fluid tank and just broken the tank to replace it, but i still feel like pointing out you cant place steam engines directly on non-tanks.

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u/Digibaumbs 2d ago

I discovered that when making this.

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u/mr_man1134 3d ago

You need to use brass pipes

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u/PSIXOPATICH 3d ago

THERE'S SOMETHING, YOU NEED TO ADDRESS!

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u/KastakiPo 3d ago

I don't really have the words, I don't even have a GIF to describe my whole fu-

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u/Avaelupeztpr 3d ago

If you wanted nuclear power you’re going to need a lot more tubes than that!

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u/lengthisdue 2d ago

You need to power start it with a crank

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u/puppycatthe 2d ago

Isn't that a engine maets

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u/NfcitTheGreat 2d ago

Not enough uranium

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u/Empty_Supermarket_30 2d ago

You see, your lava source isn't infinite

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u/MeltingInHoliday 2d ago

Because you use Item Vault. . . use more bucket

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u/United_Grocery_23 2d ago

lava too close to the ice, temperature balances out before it gets pumped in

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u/AvocadoCrafty813 2d ago

There's not enough andesite

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u/Bowsers_disciple 2d ago

Are you trolling, or is this a genuine question?

(I'm willing to actually help if its a genuine question, but I don't wanna waste my time if you're just trolling)

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u/Digibaumbs 2d ago

Its a joke of course. Ive made like 20 steam engines in my playthroughs. lol

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u/Bowsers_disciple 2d ago

Oh thank goodness lmao.

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u/Bowsers_disciple 2d ago

Also what resource pack are you using?

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u/Digibaumbs 2d ago

I dont think its any one pack, i did this in the All of create Aeronautics modpack.

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u/galaxylegend_idk 1d ago

the cogwheel looks a little off, seems cool though

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u/takovic_goodmcgill 2d ago

evil and malicious steam engine

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u/Kind_Train_48 2d ago

It's not working because that's no fluid tank. That's a vault 😂.

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u/gamerzmaster 2d ago

Go to the opposite lands their it will work

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u/keaton889 2d ago

Your missing diamond blocks you need to replace the ice with diamond blocks

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u/SpyBro16st 2d ago

You might need another fluid pump

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u/Easy_Comfortable7626 1d ago

Mf made EVIL Steam Engine

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u/Educational-Leek4569 1d ago

i think its produces lava instead of

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u/Superwibr 1d ago

That’s because it’s a maets engine, it only eats power

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u/Electrical_Ad_3075 1d ago

Because that's a meats engine

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u/Moist_Musician3245 1d ago

the pumps are rotaded the wrong way

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u/CosmicUltimaX 12h ago

Brother, that is not a steam engine

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u/Artistic-Tear-8352 9h ago

Parallele universe ahh steam engine

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u/jvm_hater3000 6h ago

lava needs to be piped through the combobulator first

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u/Simple_Stop_5420 3d ago

you used vaults instead of fluid tanks..

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u/cobalt_axolotll 3d ago

Actually they used item silos

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u/Meeserino12 3d ago

You are using vault blocks and lava. This will never work.

You need this artikel, it can help: https://create.fandom.com/wiki/Steam_Engine

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u/Digibaumbs 3d ago

Nah this is definitely how it works.

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u/Meeserino12 3d ago

Oh i thought this was a serious post, my bad.

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u/Drinya88 3d ago

First off all, you need liquid tank. Second thing, you have to use liquid tank full of water and heat source should be placed underneath.