Does upgrading steam boiler reset heat to 20 again?

[jamo_83]

Hi All,

I am fairly new to FTB and have just started with steam boilers.
Yesterday I build a 18HP boiler and it is almost fully heated up.
If I want to upgrade it to a full 36HP boiler can I just add the blocks?
If I do this, will it start the heating process from the beginning again? (So much fuel!)
Or will it just drop to the difference between the two? Or something else?

Thanks

 

[whizzball1]

Hi All,

I am fairly new to FTB and have just started with steam boilers.
Yesterday I build a 18HP boiler and it is almost fully heated up.
If I want to upgrade it to a full 36HP boiler can I just add the blocks?
If I do this, will it start the heating process from the beginning again? (So much fuel!)
Or will it just drop to the difference between the two? Or something else?

Thanks

I think it keeps it.

 

[netmc]

I was under the impression it will keep the heat level if you break and reform it. however, if you change the size, you have to heat it back up. I haven't messed with boilers in the last few iterations of railcraft, so it may have changed.

 

[MilConDoin]

The last time I tried this, the heat reset back to 20°C.

 

[Shakie666]

If making it bigger didn't reset the heat level, it would be exploitable, as you could just build a 1hp boiler, wait for it to heat up, then upgrade it to a 36hp boiler without wasting any extra fuel on the heatup phase.

 

[Adonis0]

If making it bigger didn't reset the heat level, it would be exploitable, as you could just build a 1hp boiler, wait for it to heat up, then upgrade it to a 36hp boiler without wasting any extra fuel on the heatup phase.

mm, I'd imagine that if you had to keep the same firebox footprint then it wouldn't be such a bad thing to have it keep the heat
But as it stands, it doesn't.

 

[Dravarden]

No idea upgrading, but once I broke one of the boiler blocks of a 8lp, placed it back and kept its max heat.

If making it bigger didn't reset the heat level, it would be exploitable, as you could just build a 1hp boiler, wait for it to heat up, then upgrade it to a 36hp boiler without wasting any extra fuel on the heatup phase.

1hp is 500 degrees max heart, 36hp is 1000, and since you upgrade the base, it doesn't make sense, but upgrading the boiler itself does.

 

[MilConDoin]

No idea upgrading, but once I broke one of the boiler blocks of a 8lp, placed it back and kept its max heat.




1hp is 500 degrees max heart, 36hp is 1000, and since you upgrade the base, it doesn't make sense, but upgrading the boiler itself does.

HP is 1000°C, LP is 500°C. Size (1,8,12,18,27,36) is irrelevant. Thus 1HP is 1000°C, not 500°C.

 

[Dravarden]

oh I didn't know that.

anyway, I think you can upgrade the boiler blocks but not the fireboxes.

 

[PsionicArchon]

Attempting to change the size of any boiler has always reset its heat levels for me. Of course, I'm running Minecraft 1.4.7 when I do this however, I would assume that this will remain unchanged for one reason mentioned above, exploitation.

I would advise keeping its current size. Use the steam it's already producing to power a biofuel production plant as to not waste your fuel. When you have a nice store of biofuel, upgrade the boiler than, use the biofuel to heat it back up.