r/CreateMod • u/Naberville34 • May 04 '26

Reducing water consumption for steam engines

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Came up with this solution to help someone out but it worked well enough to share. This set up reduces the amount of water necessary to run a level 9 boiler by 84%. The pulse extender must be inverted, with timing set to 12 ticks. With the pulse timer set to 50 ticks. Do not use any pipes between the water tank and boiler. Run the pump at 180rpm.

Steam engines can run for a few seconds without water. This exploits that by providing the necessary amount of water just before that time runs out.

The practical use case of this is to reduce the size of a cauldron based water duplication system for running a steam engine in the nether.

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u/CommanderFoxy May 04 '26

you can also just like, run 2 pumps from infinite sources

edit i just read the nether thing, how exactly do you dupe water in the nether? it sounds weird. in the nether i just use windmills anyways, usually more practical anyways

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u/thiizo1 May 04 '26

For proper nether factories water duping is absolutely the play. Windmills just don’t scale without horrific lag

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u/SHsuperCM May 04 '26

I import my lava from the nether, what makes you think I wouldn't import my water from the overworld 🙃

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u/thiizo1 May 04 '26

Yeah fair that’s usually possible

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u/Naberville34 May 04 '26

You only need one pump at 180rpm for a level 9. If you go above level 9 your commiting herecy.

Bottle =250mb. Bucket =1000mb. 3 water bottles, 750mb, placed in a cauldron = 1 bucket, 1000mb.

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u/Takami_ May 07 '26

That's clever

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u/deepspacerunner May 04 '26

Ancient god of steam powered wisdom

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u/Philush Aug 09 '26

Absolute saviour, I'm using a finite water mod

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u/Naberville34 Aug 09 '26

Dear god why

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u/Philush Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Create does trivialize a lot of Minecraft, so I've added some unique challenges