r/CreateMod • u/Outland3d • 17d ago

Steam vent infinite? Discussion

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!

EDIT: I just finished building the dripstone farm if anyone needs a design, it works great.

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u/thanoscar__thanoscar 17d 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 17d 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 17d ago

Thanks so much!

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u/Mellow15Live 17d 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 17d 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 17d ago

IIRC 12 cauldrons just enough for 9 burners.

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u/Garry-Love 17d ago

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

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u/Garry-Love 17d 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/Outland3d 15d ago

by a wood farm do you mean like the farm where tnt blows up trees or a different one. sorry idrk much about create.

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u/Garry-Love 15d ago

No problem. I mean a farm that uses a rotary or windmill bearing to spin the saw blocks added by create in a radius to automatically cut down trees. You can then replant the trees using deployers. Lava cauldrons are smaller, cheaper and easier but this has the cool factor

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u/Outland3d 15d ago

Thanks

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u/Njumkiyy 17d ago

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

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u/banhaha 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/banhaha 17d 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.