Large Boilers¶

Hatch Type	Minimum Count	Maximum Count	Placement
Energy Input	N/A	N/A	N/A
Energy Output	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fluid Input	1	Unlimited	Bottom layer
Fluid Output	1	Unlimited	Second layer or above
Item Input	0	Unlimited	Bottom layer
Item Output	N/A	N/A	N/A
Muffler	1	1	Bottom layer

The Large Boilers are a set of tiered machines that produce steam from water and burnable fuels. The Large Boilers are alternatives to the single-block boilers that produce significantly more steam, but at a much higher fuel burn rate.

Behaviour¶

When provided with water (usually from an infinite water cover), and a burnable solid or liquid fuel, the boiler will begin to heat up. It will get hotter the longer it is active, reaching a peak heat that is shown in the tooltip for the controller and the controller’s GUI. The amount of steam produced depends on the temperature of the boiler; the amount produced at the maximum temperature can be seen on the tooltip of the controller block.

Large Boilers can be throttled in their GUI. When a Large Boiler is throttled, it will produce significantly less steam, but it will also consume fuel significantly slower. Large Boilers can be throttled down to a minimum of 25% output.

Note

This throttling isn’t perfect; a throttled Large Boiler will always produce slightly less than the throttle percentage of the unthrottled output.

For example, a Large Bronze Boiler at 100% produces 800mB/t of steam, but only produces 192mB/t at 25%.

Large Boilers will void any excess steam generated if there is no room in their output hatches. To avoid this, place multiple hatches down with appropriately large fluid pipes to extract the steam, or throttle the boiler down.

Danger

Large Boilers should always have enough water available. If they are heated up without water, they will explode!

Large Boilers¶

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