For those wondering if steam can be stored in tanks...

[Unionhawk]

Yes, apparently you can. Not sure if this is intended, but I find it funny that you can store steam in a standard buildcraft tank, which has always appeared to me to have an open top.

 

[abculatter_2]

Most of us probably already knew that.

 

[b0bst3r]

You can but there's no point whatsoever, leave it in the boiler until you need to use it.

 

[Malkuth]

Your picture died.. But I take it you have it in a railcraft tank.

 

[Bigglesworth]

Steam stored in tanks. Now only if their was a way to condense it and store huge quantities of steam in a sort of liquid form?!?!!?!?

 

[Poppycocks]

Steam stored in tanks. Now only if their was a way to condense it and store huge quantities of steam in a sort of liquid form?!?!!?!?

You mean water?

 

[raiju]

You mean water?

Now's not the time to make sense

 

[Poppycocks]

Now's not the time to make sense

 

[Malkuth]

Just taking a shot in the dark.. But steam most likely is classified as a liquid... Hence why it works..

Don't think minecraft has a Vapor, or gas classification.

 

[Bigglesworth]

You mean water?

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Just taking a shot in the dark.. But steam most likely is classified as a liquid... Hence why it works..

Don't think minecraft has a Vapor, or gas classification.

tell that to the mexican food i just had
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[bwillb]

Just taking a shot in the dark.. But steam most likely is classified as a liquid... Hence why it works..

Don't think minecraft has a Vapor, or gas classification.

can you empty a bucket of steam on the ground?

 

[Bigglesworth]

can you empty a bucket of steam on the ground?

You can irl. Depending on how flexible your definitions of 'empty' and 'ground' are.

 

[Abdiel]

Just taking a shot in the dark.. But steam most likely is classified as a liquid... Hence why it works..

Don't think minecraft has a Vapor, or gas classification.

There is actually a difference between liquids and gasses. Both can be transported by pipes/liquiducts and stored in any (so far) kind of tank, but pipes have much higher throughput when transporting gasses. Steam is a gas, as are several of the GregTech gasses (I am not absolutely sure which ones).

 

[Vovk]

another point - steam is produced and used very quickly. A 36H boiler outputs 720 buckets of steam a tick. That's 14400 buckets steam a second. Every unit of a railcraft tank or of a normal BC tank is 16 buckets. even for a 9x9x8 railcraft tank, that's only 10368 buckets.A single industrial steam engine takes 40 steam a tick or 800 steam a second. A single industrial steam engine would empty a max size railcraft tank in 13 seconds.

Trying to store steam in any useful amount is absurd unless you just want it for decoration or if you want to complete a set.

 

[Dravarden]

Is just another liquid of the liquid API.

 

[Hydra]

can you empty a bucket of steam on the ground?

You can't empty a bucket of milk, biomass or fuel on the ground either but those are very much liquids

Too bad really. I wish I could make a sea of biofuel and then set fire to it...

 

[Celestialphoenix]

I think that may be coming when the liquidAPI updates, not every liquid will have source blocks, but a few more can be placed in the world.

I think Gregtech has liquid Wolfram somewhere- personally I think a moat of molten tungsten is better than a moat of lava.​

 

[Dravarden]

yeah, the LiquidAPI will make liquids placeable, from that I know, modmakers will be able to choose how fast/far it moves, if it is easy/hard to move in it, what happens when it touches other liquid, what effects gives if you touch it, etc.

honey sea FTW!

or dna pool... or maybe a new liquid "nuclear goo" that gets created if you dont control your reactor properly...

 

[Hydra]

I think that may be coming when the liquidAPI updates, not every liquid will have source blocks, but a few more can be placed in the world.

I think Gregtech has liquid Wolfram somewhere- personally I think a moat of molten tungsten is better than a moat of lava.​

Aside from that it makes even less sense from a physics perspective But hey, we have floating blocks. If gravity doesn't always apply then neither should thermodynamics I guess

 

[Yuka]

Sure, lets put a tank of that, right next to my liquid ice.

I'm afraid you were beaten to the joke about a week ago.

You mean water?

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