585K SU! 4x Tier 9 Steam Engine Block! - Minecraft: Create

UPDATE Now with the schematics!
Above Ground - createmod.com/...
Below Ground - createmod.com/...
Everyone else has one, so I made a Steam Engine of my own!
Completely self-sustaining, tile-able, and (mostly) symmetrical!
Start up is super easy and upkeep is under 5k of the SU produced.
I am including two different versions, one for above and below ground, so it's the users preference.
Size Profiles
Below Ground: 7L, 9W, 13H
Above Ground: 9L, 11W, 13H
Machine was built while looking north, so adjust the pumps directions as needed.
Oh, one slight correction. On the Materials list, you only need 2 Gearboxes, and you'll need 1 additional shaft, and a casing to make it a full block. This is reflected on the Schematics, but not on the video

[@snottytoe6957]

Keep in mind I am pretty sure you can only put water buckets into the engine manually in creative mode, so in a survival world you will need to pump water into them manually to start them.

[@Triobian]

Ah, youre correct. I didn't realize that. well, the start up takes 4,992 su. So a mid sized windmill should be able to do the trick

[@zelkieZack]

@@Triobian How do you start it up? Do I need to pump water in using extra pumps or just provide 4,992 SU to one of the shafts in the middle?

[@Triobian]

You should just need to provide the su to any part of the machine. My bad though, I hadn't actually realized you can't pit water in the boiler directly. The fault of always building in creative I guess haha

[@greybeardmc]

@@Triobian I came here to mention that. In my (strictly survival) world, I've gotten bitten every time I need to restart it, because it doesn't pump water into it. I ended up beefing up a windmill somewhere else that runs a conveyer belt near my engine so it could also provide at least enough water for it to start.

[@JasonXLV1]

Looking at all the stress put on the wooden gears makes me feel this mod should have copper cogs as an option

[@Triobian]

Ohhh I like that idea!

[@f18letsbattle]

"Babe wake up Triobian posted a steam engine build"

[@Triobian]

Is this your first comment? I don't recall your name or profile pic

[@StarWarsExpert_]

You can surely by proud of this steam engine block! This is so well done. I dodn't know the watering system could be done so easily with just a 3x3 with a hole in the middle water source. Or a 3x1 water source. I always did a 2x2 water source that. I also underestimated the efficency of the lava dripstone generating system. I used to take lava from the nether instead.

[@Triobian]

Yea lava gen is powerful, so theres no need to get external really. And thanks for saying so, it took a long time for me to make this and I tried like 2 dozen different models before I got one I found satisfactory. What do you think about my Nether Engine btw? PS, name relevant, I am watching someone play jedi survivor rn lol

[@StarWarsExpert_]

@@Triobian haha, yeah Jedi Survivor. I'm glad Fallen Order has received a sequel. What do you think of it so far? Good game? Better or worse than Fallen Order?

[@Triobian]

Don't think I've seen fallen order at all tbh. only star wars game I've seen is the one with the super moody anti hero guy, and even that one only bits and pieces. The new game looks fun though. Has some performance issues according to the player, but he said it was super fun

[@egegokdenizduman]

Another banger again! Glad I found this channel. When is the schematic coming?

[@Triobian]

When I get home from work. Easter Sunday for some, but my personal hell. Still got another 4 or more hours till I'm done with work

[@Triobian]

Getting upload ready right now, will make a community post and update vid description

[@egegokdenizduman]

@@Triobian Hope you have a great day at work man. Take it easy. Appriciate the effort.

[@Triobian]

Much thanks. I was NOT in a good mood yesterday XD

[@トモット-d9j]

I was foolishly and honestly making blaze cakes and running a steam engine.I was impressed.

[@Triobian]

Yea apparently the lava method is the go-to due to its infinite self sustainability. I did get one thing wrong though, you can't put water in tanks manually in survival, so you'll need a 4992 SU start up.

[@TACOCAT_67]

For survival add pumps from an infinite water source powered by a separate windmill l, make sure its a high enough speed

[@Triobian]

yea i made this before realizing you cant self start it with buckets

[@parkerthediss-stroyer5018]

to greatly increase su of a steam engine, I used 2 pumps in infinite water, and I automated blaze cakes (which was very annoying) to superheat the blaze burners. each one generates about 160,000 su

[@Triobian]

Yea due to people not liking the no netherrack recipe, most tend to stick with the completely automatable t9 designs. But yea power to you if you went all the way

[@7Wolf77]

Man this thing is HOT! Great description. Easy to follow and understand. Awesome!

[@Triobian]

Glad you like it!

[@lemmiii9910]

For some reason the mechanical arm was moving too fast for the lavabuckets to fill up. The way i fixed it was by having a brass funnel on the depot and moving the full buckets to another depot and then using that as the input for the arm. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem :)

[@viper_exe_]

Not sure i understand what you mean here. Could you make a video on this?

[@_hyt_2409]

Love your videos man thanks for everything u made me understand more create mod stuff now i can efficiently use create

[@Triobian]

Glad to hear it! Now go learn a fancy trick I don't know about and teach me! XD

[@Space-te6nu]

you are a genius

[@Triobian]

Haha thanks, but what you don't see, behind me I have like a dozen different models of different engines to see which one would finally work XD

[@tvojejbabkydedko]

you need to use brass funnels and filter it to empty bucket because the mech arm won't work and it will cycle between the funnel and depot

[@Triobian]

Yea, I have a community post with a picture of that fix. It's odd though, when building and testing that engine, I never once had the cycling issue

[@stalorion5861]

Would you be able to explain further. switched to brass funnels with andesite filters for empty buckets and still getting cycling issue.

[@Triobian]

I have a community post from around the same time, you can look at that for refence, it's a picture post. Alternatively, my Nether Engine uses the exact same fix, so you can just look at it to see what I did

[@mroxkral7276]

Nice one Tariobian 👏👏👏

[@Triobian]

I've not seen that spelling of my name before, bravo haha

[@blazedultimate]

I’m just looking at this like SpongeBob looking into the pizza box

[@laff__8821]

1:10 I feel you

[@YogurtBearV]

hey i made a really cool concept idea for infinite quartz, i feel like i made it to the best of my ability with create but i think you could fine tune it to oblivion, so far it pumps out massive numbers of quartz but im not sure the exact number per hour, if you wanna check it out i can send you the file for the schematic

[@Triobian]

Sure, you can send it to me on discord

[@gostlyplays]

I’d be interested in seeing how compact of a fully automatic tier 18 boiler you could make using the createplus mod for 1.18.2 that adds a recipe for netherrack that makes it farmable The recipes that createplus adds (outside of its mod compatibility ones) are actually quite interesting, like a recipe for those blocks create adds that when crushed produce a decent bit of ore. It’d be interesting to see what you could make for those

[@Triobian]

Definitely sounds interesting!

[@skydragonfire93]

i mean, size would depend on what you consider part of the build. Using that datapack to create an automatic blaze cake factory is one thing, and then the self suficient T18 boiler would be rather small if you only account for belting the cakes into a buffer vault that deposits them onto a depo to get distributed by a mechanical arm. If the Blaze Cake factory isn't considered part of the engine then the engine itself could be as small as a 6x6 footprint, maye smaller depending on where you position things. If you include the blaze cake factory though, you're looking at a whole chunk at least.

[@EUJokerBR]

Really nice, well done

[@Triobian]

Thank you very much! I wish I could have made it fit in a 7x7, but alas, Getting infinite water and keeping power transfer going nicely wasn't feasible in this attempt x.x

[@SlujM]

Pog

[@smjsprivate8014]

Sadly mechanical arms don't like options anymore, so instead, you need a smart funnel with a hopper into the depot. I can't find a way to minimize it so it sadly has to stick out

[@Underrated_Games]

DUDE your amazing

[@Triobian]

Glad you like it!

[@emanueledamiani5379]

Heyo there, Congrats on the big build! I drew a lot of inspiration and (a bit late ik) I managed to create an easier to scale, easier to navigate and, funnely enough, complely symmetric version I'd like to share if you don't mind! Keep up the content 👍

[@Triobian]

That sounds great. If you want to show it in my discord then you are welcome to do so

[@viper_exe_]

Please make a video or schematic on this.

[@nutellasoos2298]

The mechanical arm does take the bucket to fast so it stay a bucket.That means no lava bucket is filled in the blaze burner.If i switch to 80 rpm it is slow enough so the spout fills the bucket but the ooumps for the water is then to slow.How to fix?

[@Triobian]

That's perplexing. In all my testing the mechanical arm doesn't move at all until the bucket is filled with lava. Like with the ponder, it shouldn't try to grab or move something unless it has a valid use/output. Try breaking the arm and redoing its input and outputs

[@zelkieZack]

@@Triobian Finally got it set up and I'm having the same issue. I replaced the arms and it worked the first time and then stopped working correctly and just removes the empty bucket from the depot and puts it into the funnel on top. I can provide a video if you need

[@Triobian]

That's so odd. I have never had that happen at all. A video would be appreciated. Would help the troubleshooting

[@zelkieZack]

@@Triobian kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaHOY2aPfrmSY5I

[@Triobian]

Hmm very interesting.. Have you already tried to break and replace the spout and the connecting pipes? It looks like it's got lava just fine but worth a test

[@adamahhh1994]

Idk whats wrong with mine but the mechanical arm picks up the bucket before it can get filled by lava

[@Triobian]

Yes, that issue has been solved in a community post. You can also take a look at the lava gen method i use in my three powder farm videos to see how the solution works.

[@adamahhh1994]

Nah I just fixed it my own way with a brass funnel that only accepts lava bucket into another depot. Thanks for the vid btw

[@Leelilou]

I built this and I love the design. It'll fit right in where I need it, and 500k+ su per module is nothing to scoff at. However.... I'm having a few issues. When I fired it up, it wouldn't pull lava up from the backup tanks. I remedied this by replacing the top parts of those tanks with pipes, seems to have done the trick. But now, while the whole system is getting heat, only 3 tanks have water. The three that do are reporting 2 ticks under both space and heat, while the one that isn't getting water is reporting full ticks on space and heat. I'm still new to the mod, still learning everything, so.... Anyone know what gives? What do I need to do to get this beauty from the 200k su all the way up to the 500k beauty it's meant to be? If it helps, I used the schematic cannon. Edit: I just bandaged the problem with the 4th tank by running a dedicated pump to it. The whole system is now producing 255k. The 4th tank is now giving the same readings as the first 3... That is, level 9 with 2 ticks under on space and heat. I have no clue how to fix that as steam engines are still entirely new to me.

[@Triobian]

Can you post about this on my discord? We have a troubleshooting channel, and as you seem to have a few issues, it would be easier to explain and answer if we had screenshots to go along with it and could communicate more easily than as replies here

[@TacComControl]

If you're using the schematicannon, it's... stupid. Check your pump output angles and your pipes. The pipes that feed directly into the tanks have a bad habit of turning funny when schematicannon printed, I've found.

[@09jjohns]

This no longer seems to work. The mechanical arms constantly pick up the empty bucket and put it into the funnel before the bucket can be filled.

[@Dirtblokje154]

for some reason the lava never gets ejected out of the spout and the mechanical arm doesnt give lava to the blazes

[@Comrade51010]

Same haven’t figured out the issue

[@Cerbossa]

I seem to be running into the same problem... Everything works as supposed to, but the mechanical arms are too quick picking up the buckets. The spout doesn't get the chance to fill them, so it just picks up an empty bucked and immediately deposits it back into the funnel. Full circle moment...

[@Triobian]

I have a community post with a potential fix, try that and see if it works for you

[@Cerbossa]

@@Triobian That did the trick! And I finally found out what community posts are XD Works like a charm! For other problem-solvers: Change the setup by moving the spout up and putting a depot underneath, then a brass funnel under the depot and the original depot beneath the funnel. Set the funnel to only let through lava buckets, and have the mechanical arm take the filled buckets from the bottom depot, and deposit empty buckets on the top depot.

[@Inhumanefool]

@@Triobian im so confused where do i find the community post?

[@Triobian]

On the channel page. There's also info on it in the discord.

[@Inhumanefool]

@@Triobian amazing thank you! i managed to get it working after alot of fiddling but i finally did it! thank you for replying back! Subbed my friend

[@migats2160]

Stream engines aren't self sufficient if they use their own power to sustain itself because when the player is too far away, the lava cauldrons will never fill and the engine runs out of fuel.

[@Triobian]

Ah, I see

[@ProGodAris]

Spawn chunks!

[@DerKling07]

I copied the T9 in my world via blueprint but the mechanical arm is too fast for the spout so it takes the empty bucket... Do you maybe know why?

[@Triobian]

I have no clue why, but I have a community post that offers a potential fix. Give it a try and lmk if it works?

[@GodvenG]

Hi i got some issues, when i trying to start schematic cannon to build below ground version my game just crashing, with my schematic's all fine :(

[@Triobian]

Try posting it in a creative world. See if it still happens. If it doesn't, break the schematic into pieces and place then in your normal world, see if you can identify where the crash happens. If nothing else, you can use the schematic as a guide to place the blocks yourself

[@foxy9245]

I build the steam engine on a server but when i unload the engine (it is in the single chunk) for a while it just stop working, any way to fix it except building chunkloader?

[@Triobian]

Honestly I have no idea. Chunk loading does seem like the most possible solution though

[@samuelhester4610]

@triobian i fixed the biggest issue have been having with your engine above the first depot place a smart chute with a deny bucket filter then a depot on top with 3 empty buckets and the spout above that and boom ez fix

[@EthanDiscgolf]

When I built this in my world, I seem to have some trouble with the mechanical arms, They dont seem to go back to the depot and fill up the bucket they have. Any tips?

[@Triobian]

I have a community post with a potential fix, scroll down and look for the picture. Hopefully that works, but if not, let me know

[@EthanDiscgolf]

@@Triobian Yep! That worked perfect! Thanks so much

[@Triobian]

Glad to hear! If my design works well for you, would be awesome if you left a like!

[@phifangame8532]

My steam engine says it is overstressed but I'm not sure why (I didn't finished all the blaze holders and steam engine) is this the reason why Now the water isn't going into the tank

[@Triobian]

You'll need a few thousand su to maintain lvl 9 engines, in terms of water supply. So if your boilers arent reaching level 3, then that might be your issue.

[@phifangame8532]

@@Triobian thanks, I have another question, How do I turn on (start) the steam engine

[@Triobian]

You'll need to use a handcrank with a pump to get it started

[@nickademas5584]

The schematic website is not working. Plaease give us an other way of downloading schematics.

[@PigeonFlyingThroughSky]

when iv made it, the mechinal arms arent working

[@Triobian]

try breaking and replacing the container type of items. consult the discord for additional problems though, theres a lot of info on potential broken bits

[@phantom9831]

Did I do something wrong ? I used the shematics, but the SU output is 500k for the whole four bloc

[@Triobian]

Sounds like you aren't hitting the max level. Take a look around the burners and see which ones aren't getting lit

[@phantom9831]

@@Triobian thanks, I was able to find the problem ! Now this works perfectly

[@laker8987]

Hi, thanks for the video, your subscriber is from Russia. I need help. My mechanical hand does not want to fill the lava with ifrits. The construction is completely done through schematics. First he writes "The hand has no purpose." I set the entrance to the depot and the exit to the ifrits, and still after the first time everything breaks

[@Triobian]

The translation was a little messy, but I believe I understand your issue. However I need to show you a picture so you can understand easier. discord.gg/gfHsanxk53 join here, i just posted a message about the fix for you

[@SharkOSix]

finding an issue with two of the fluid tanks its not going too 4 blocks tall Edit: Fixed it with a fluid pipe

[@HELL0_S]

You can also break all of them and replace them

[@shibaliba773]

Is there a way to stop these from running when they dont need to be on?

[@Triobian]

No, I saw no reason to include such a feature

[@s0ggy0512]

How do you jump start the engine ?

[@Triobian]

This was before I learned about that being a necessary step, but you can jump start it fairly simple with a windmill providing about 6k power, or you can feed a bucket of lava to one of the blaze burners and then hand crank water into the engine

[@advikdutta]

I made it 50 likes

[@Triobian]

Haha glad you like it

[@Goldstar2040-YT]

mmh it seems the spout wouldnt fill a second time the buckt

[@Goldstar2040-YT]

Have also tried the method with the 2 depots from your community area... maybe it's also because I used Streamer Mod "Create Live 4" but actually there should be no problems with it

[@Triobian]

Did you set the top depot to be deposit and the bottom one input? With a lava filter on the funnel? And then did you remember to redo your mech arm deposits?

[@Goldstar2040-YT]

​@@Triobian i should have done everything... maybe you could add this in a new version of the engine because it seems to be a big problem but i'm trying again in the basic version of create if it works

[@Triobian]

How did it go?

[@Goldstar2040-YT]

​@@Triobian okay i tried it in create basic. The Arm go first to each blaze then to the depot where the lava bucket ist and then to the upper depot where the empty bucket is but he dont put the empty bucket to the 2nd depot

[@polmero2087]

Tutorial?

[@Triobian]

I already showed you how it works, what it costs, and gave the schematic. Just use the schematicannon and follow the troubleshooting tips if you have issues