Need fuel source for 3 36hp boilers

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vineet

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So, I have just found out that blaze rods have been nerfed, so I am gonna need something to power my three 36 hp boilers, any solutions. Must be renewable.
 

Guswut

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And solid fuel because you have solid fuel boxes already, right? I started with liquid fuel as it seemed like the more logical choice. Besides that, though, Steve's Cart tree farms appears to be a really good fuel source.

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Steves carts tree farm + one and a something TE sawmills per boiler.
With our powers combined Steve's Cart is Captain Boiler!
 

Extreme8897

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Blaze Rods, but only if you have a Blaze Soul Shard, you could also use Charcoal if you have a Forestry Farm. You could also run a quarry and run the coal there.
 

Milaha

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You think a Steve's cart trees farm can handle three 36 hp boilers?
I run 2, one biofuel, one charcoal. It is more efficient to do sawmill>planks than charcoal, but I still have tons of both resources leftover. I could probably run 4 if i had a use for that much steam/power.
 

Guswut

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You think a Steve's cart trees farm can handle three 36 hp boilers?

I have heard claims that a single Steve's Cart tree farm can handle five 36HP boilers. I'd say do some research into them, and maybe build a mockup in creative mode to test. Good luck!
 

MilConDoin

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The solid fueled part with the planks is just shy of feeding three 36HP solid ones. The last tidbit needs to be done via sawdust->compressed sawdust->charcoal.
The five 36HP you remember is for the liquid boilers from the saplings->biofuel route (which needs a very small input of extra mulch, the apples don't produce enough).
 

Guswut

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Heat is down to 0,5k per stick.

TBH, I'd rather if the spawners had been nerfed to require 4 times as many souls. This is laaaaaame.

Collect three more T5 soul shard's, and set up three more spawners? That will give you a close to identical setup in regards to what you have suggested. The major difference would be that you'd need three more grinders, but those aren't too hard to make I believe.
 

Poppycocks

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Collect three more T5 soul shard's, and set up three more spawners? That will give you a close to identical setup in regards to what you have suggested. The major difference would be that you'd need three more grinders, but those aren't too hard to make I believe.
Entity spam.
 
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Guswut

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Entity spam.

Ah, true. What about keeping them away with a chunkloader on them? Ah well, this underscores my desire to stick with liquid fuels. Until someone messes with my biofuel. Then I have a wonderful source of flamethrower fuel, just in case.
 

netmc

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you could make really large rp2 peat farm. similar to making a mossy stone generator, except you use peat. simply extend vertical. 2 wide row of peat with water on the outside. deployer, piston and block breaker.
 

OniBait

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I have a video on a CC Fir Tree farm:

I'm in the middle of expanding my operations, and fir tree saplings now apparently work in a fermenter so it gets even better.

Before I started on my expansion, I was able to outpace two 36-HP boilers heating up with the charcoal it was outputting (and it is so ridiculously cheap to do). At the end of it all, I'm estimating that with 4 turtles, I will be able to support 6 36-HP boilers on charcoal alone -- with another 4 on bio.

(And yes, I know the setup is sub-optimal -- I could've used sawmills and burned wood instead of charcoal. If I was going for optimal, I wouldn't have made a bunch of coke ovens either)
 

purplefantum

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Peat is good since it's cheap as hell, and once those boilers heat up, lasts a good amount of time. But I found Biofuel was alot better in the long run, fully renewable and last a very good amount of time per bucket.