Create Mod Steam Engine Guide! 

the guy who created this mod has done an amazing job. i used to be a huge fan of the old industrial craft and this is my new favorite mod.

I think that tree farm is more expensive option, because when you have blaze burners, one brass funnel isn't that hard. And tree farm requires deployers to replant trees.

The lava farm does need sources, but you can use virtually any solid block under the lava, not just the dripstone block. It's actually just the pointed dripstone doing the work, not the block.

I'm a simple man. I power my furnace engines with dried kelp blocks, I power my enslaved Blaze steam engine with dried kelp blocks.

bruh goated tutorial, couldn't figure out which power source i should use and steam engines seemed too complicated until i watched this! tysm!

I can confidently say I know my way around Create better than many, but I never knew I was overestimating how much water I needed for steam engines!

For those struggling at 13:02, you will need to have a brass casing as the block. So first, on the same level of the copper pipe that feeds the steam engine water, place a LARGE cogwheel, and this is FIRST. After that you get your brass casing and place it ON the cogwheel you just placed, it should sort of become a combination of the two blocks. Next put the small cogwheel diagonally and another large cogwheel under that. Finally put another small cogwheel diagonally, this should end up right under the brass casing/cogwheel combination from earlier, and one more small cogwheel next to that. The reason why this may have not worked at first, and why it didn't work for me despite having the exact same blocks, is because you had to do the cogwheel and casing FIRST, as in break the smaller cogwheel underneath. If the small wheel is there, or gets placed first, the brass encased large cogwheel will connect to it and that's what breaks the steam engine.

15:50 for the netherrack, you could use a threshold switch (or whatever it was called) to turn on some kind of warning (e.g. if you have a control room for your base it could be a redstone lamp there) when the netherrack runs low.

I am actually getting into the create mod again (I played it 2 times prior but returning to it) thank you for this! Your videos are informative and I enjoy the mostly uncut content as well as saying your thought process aloud, earned a sub from this minecraft veteran

If you are using the Create: Liquid Fuel mod you can pump lava directly into the blaze burners. Found this out playing on Beardstone's Perfect World pack.

Great tutorial, I learned a lot about Create steam engines! Working on a public use blaze cake factory that "sells" blaze cakes for 2 netherrack a piece

I love playing with Immersive Engineering and Create Crafts & additions, it adds a way to directly upgrade blaze burners to being able to feed them with biodiesel with Create Pipes and superheats them.

Thanks for this video. I've seen videos about self-sustaining steam engines, but they all just built it and that's cool, but I prefer being able to understand what's happening lol. Now I'll be able to try and design my own.

you don’t have to use the drip stone blocks just pointed drip stone btw :) you could have glass or stone or whatever non flammable block there as long as the point is there

from my experience, you don't need the dripstone blocks, just the dripstones itself are enough. and as long as its not possible to fully automate blazecakes (=generating netherack), i'll stick to using a lvl9 one and add another one if needed. more expensive to build but runs forever (unless you overstress it, but thats why you use a stressmeter)

This actually helps understand how to make a more efficient engine, thank you

An amazing video! Well explained, funny, simplistic, and entertaining from start to finish. You've earned a like + sub!

i knew most of this but i hadn’t considered blaze cake automation!! it sounds silly but i usually use a tier 9 steam engine to power most of my stuff and i prefer just making another one as expanding up REALLY has drawbacks when you put steam engines under your base.. seeing that it makes almost 300,000 su i might consider it! also some packs and create addons make it so you can farm cinder flour, the one i remember is spouting redstone on cinder flour

thank you for help. at first the Steam Engine was a littel complicadet but now its easy for me to build something cool with it :)

i would be so lost without your instructions of this mod. i cant tell you how much help you are with just two vidieos of yours i can say i learned enough to where i was able to build something way more functional.

I’m trying to make a self sufficient power plant with create: New age and I was having a bit of trouble getting the engine running but this video really helped.

Learned a lot, thanks! Really helped solidify things in my head.

Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to make a steam engine and it wasn’t working but this helped a ton!

Form of this videos is brilliant, as you said, teaching how the machine works, thank you for not making us watch you place blocks, I'm so glad I found your channel

Yeah one of the common add ons makes it possible to generate netherrack by pouring healing potions on cobblestone, which makes a top tier steam engine an insanely complicated but very satisfying setup. You need a Melon Farm, Netherrack Farm, and a gold farm, which itself is a whole project on its own, then of course you need to farm chickens for the eggs and sugarcane, and then you can finally have all that feed into making blaze cakes infinitely in a massive factory sized engine. On the plus side tho you do get a healing potion farm out of it among other things.

what my buddy did on our modded server was set up the infinite automatic lava first. it pumped into a giant tank. then the tank fed the blaze burners in the same way you did. he also had a water tank supplying water as well. he considered the blaze cakes but figure lava was more than enough power for a whole base. there's also a mod that adds compatibility between create and immersive engineering.

"The trick there is getting the lava from the nether, but I'll let you figure that one out." 🎵I LIKE TRAINS🎵

This helped more than any how to mod pack i've watch. Subscribed.

Am I dumb or did he not mention the tiny fact that you need to go to the Nether and capture blazes inside the blaze burners?? That seems like a pretty HUGE fact to leave out.

Loving your channel 😎

Better option to feed the blaze burners is to use straws (part of the Create Crafts & Additions add on), and fluid pipes. It allows the blaze burners to take from the pipes connected to them. So instead I use a 2 stage pump system. One pump pulls from the lava farm into a fluid tank for lava. The second pump pulls from the lava tank to the blaze burners. I use clutches and switches so I can turn on and off the feed pump so if I want to the steam engine to shut down I can disable the transfer pump from the tank to build up a supply of lava to use when I need the steam engine running. The pump from the lava farm to the fluid pump is driven by a water wheel so it constantly pumps out any collected lava to the storage tank. The water wheel/lava pump combo is also connected to the engine as well with a clutch, so I can use the water wheel to jump start the steam engine to get some rotation in to start up the water pump connected to the steam engine and the feed pump from the tank to the blaze burners.

Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I didn't realize how early these are to setup.. that you could feed blaze with lava.. And most importantly i've never used the mechanical arm because I assumed they were as basic/limited as a factorio inserter. I had no idea they could target so freely.. create is so powerful! Dripstone lava farms don't need dripstone -blocks-, any block that will hold the pointed dripstone stalactites (10 block long max) should work. It checks two blocks above the topmost pointed dripstone and looks for a cauldron up to 10 blocks below the tip. There is no advantage to having a longer than 1 block pointed dripstone. It is of course random chance based on world ticks and dice rolls, but on average 1 tip will make just over 1 lava every day (19 minutes~). Any furnace fuel can be used in blaze burners for its usual time, so since lava lasts 1,000 seconds, you would need an average of 1.2~ cauldrons per blaze spawner (so 11+) to keep them more or less on; (char)coal would be 15/day/blaze(135). For you psychopaths out there, dried kelp blocks would be 6/day/blaze aka 486 kelp. Arms don't refill blaze unless the blaze has less than 500 seconds of time left but the blaze can hold up to 10,000 seconds without waste; so It Just Works™. Blaze cakes are 160s so need 7.5/day/blaze (67.5/day flour/eggs/sugar for the full 9) but will not overfeed the blaze. Every heat source except -heated/superheated- (not cold) blaze provides the same passive 0 heat value, heated is 1, and super is 2. For water you need 10mb/t/level: Passive=1x20rpm pump, Heated=1x180rpm pump, Super=2x180rpm pumps. Water is not stored anywhere, so overfilling the steam tank provides no benefit. Maxed tank level is 18 at 294,912su requiring 18 engines at 16,384su each to make use of. Engines are all separate generators so one getting overstressed doesn't inherently make all the others stop too. Random sidenote but the wiki page for encased fans has a ton of interesting knowledge.

Thanks for the tutorial, I had the lava but couldnt figure out how i should make it self sufficient.

thanks so much for the video I didn't know steam engine would be that much given power ! besides that, you can craft netherrack without going in the nether at all (well, it's nicer to go in the nether since it's faster to get netherrack like that). so, if you're on a server that deactivated nether, here's how, with Create: - gunpowder = either mob farm, OR crush creeperhead OR wash crushed raw zinc (the other method require sulphur from nether) - quartz: crush diorite OR crush prismarine crystals OR wash crushed gold ore - netherrack = compact in a bassin (gravel, gunpowder, quartz, clay)

Yes, I really prefer this style of tutorial! I was having many improvement ideas throughout the latter part of the video. Teach a man to fish, and all! You have earned my subscription, as well as my recommendations. I just wish I knew more Create creators. I suspect Tango of the tech variety may have been influenced by you as well. Just a feeling I have.

this will be useful, i even have an idea to make the lava farm more reliable in the event the generator over stresses, multiple lava farms stockpiling lava in a tank

New to the mod, this was a fantastic intro, thank you!

Steam Engines notably overstress individually, so if you don't mind wasting most of the 16k SU the one engine produces, you can have single separate engine feeding water and fuel, and no matter what happens to the other engines (assuming the fuel holds up), the engine keeps running. You can also use the "wasted" SU to run 2nd to 4th additional boilers, if you want to.

6:50 I'm a bit late, but you can use any solid block above the dripstones, not just dripstone blocks.

Awesome. I've been using a tree farm with deployers but the lava and a mechanical arm seems way simpler.

instead of using a brass funnel, you can make the mechanical arm put the bucket into an andesite funnel dropping it into a barrel and then dropping it onto the depot so no brass needed for funnels

u can also use a hose pully in the nether to bring lava from lakes, use a item drain and buckets( u can bring it throught the net5her with belts)

Your vidoes made me play Create its a really fun mod that fits the type of games i usually play and love so thanks for the recomendation bro.

So these tutorials are amazing I have been wanting to make a really big factory sometime I just didn't know where to start so now that I have a better idea of what to do I hope I can eventually show my big factory either chocolate factory or fruit factory if u can or whatever I come up with idk yet but it's going to be really big an amazing when I can show it

I just realized that you can add a cogwheel on a different side of the water pump and connect a crank to it, and you can restart the boiler at any time, without using a windmill.

I never thought that vanilla lava farm could be this useful

Netherrack doesn't really need automation, even if you have an iron pickaxe a bit of efficiency can make netherrack insta-mined, so you can get a lot of it quickly and forget about it. Then you could make a notification system that idk turns on some lamps or smth when the amount of netherrack is low.

i have no fucking clue what am doing so this is actually really helpful

This guy is so underrated.

Also, using Create Stuff & Additions you can deliver lava without buckets

im pretty sure this is before rise and shine but you can bulk haunt charcoal into coal (or its from a different addon)

Love your videos I’m newly subscribed and this helps alot thxs

Now I can recreate the Industrial Revolution in my multiplayer server

I like to use water wheels to power the water input and other inputs, since waterwheels are nice and cheap and don't shut off when the boiler overstresses or runs out of fuel.

Fantastic - VERY informative & Helpful, thanks!

Yes, you can automate netherrack. You can turn cinderflour back into netherrack with lava and cobble. It's a pain but it can be automated and come out netherrack positive since you have that 50% chance of 2.

Messed around with steam engines yesterday and this popped up. Whilst messing around I accidentally made a max level steam engine, producing ~110,000su. I hooked it up to a generator to produce electricity. Create is amazing 😅

6:43 Little note here, you dont need the dripstone blocks (at least to my knowledge you don't). You can use cobblestone or anything that doesn't burn, the pointed dripstone js the important part

im following this and i have the issue of my mechanical arm grabbing my bucket too fast for it to be filled

good job dude really helpful! now i now how steam engines work

I really like this content. Please continue them

That mech arms are more intellegent comparing to %99 of Turkiye population. Good work!

Add a buffer for the lava. Make the lava go into a big container so there's lava piled up already ready to be used so you don't have to wait for lava to go through the pipes from a single cauldron

Leaving something for the algorithm. Love the content. 👍

I'm pretty sure you can use bamboo to power blaze burners instead of buckets of lava or a tree farm. A bamboo farm is very easy to make. Though you would probably want a stockpile switch to stop the farm from producing too much bamboo

Just subscribed I like your create video it’s great. Enjoy your weekend

I love this !

Alternative to a tree farm perhaps a kelp farm since chutes drop the output from furnaces and then can be packed automatically on a mechanical press that both feeds itself as well as excess dried kelp to power the engine unless a bamboo farm is used to cook the kelp which seems a little excessive at that point but idk. 👀

Find a sufficiently large whole in the overworld, use a hose pulley to fill up the hole from your lava gen. Once you have enough lava, reverse your pump and you'll be pumping an infinite lava source.

Okay so blaze burners aren't that difficult, but he does leave out the fact that netherrack and iron sheets make an empty blaze burner and you then have to proceed to travel to the nether and capture live blazes

If you had the lava source conversion game rule on, could you link a mechanical pump to an infinite lava source and power the boiler that way too? Including the spout and arm

after watching this i can say that i love stress

Hey I have an issue where the mechanical arm keeps taking and putting back the empty bucket and it just never gets filled with lava.

I set the 2nd one up, and no matter what i do, even cipying you exactly, the arm decides to pick up the empty bucket before filling it with lavs

the problem with having the steam engine power it's own water pump is that if you overstress it and it shuts off, you now have to go and start it all over again manually from scratch, and you'll usually also have to disconnect all your equipment from it as the hand crank doesn't create enough SU to power more then really just that pump

Now i just need updated tinker's construct

So I made the second one, targeted what I need to..but my mechanical arm just takes the empty bucket and deposits it into the brass deposit, and not the lava...any ideas how to fix?

minor correction, an infinite lava farm with dripstone doesn't need a dripstone block, just the dripstone itself, most people use glass to see the lava above the dripstone in survival to make your life easier

If we're assuming the audience has blaze burners, then they also have a way to make brass, so it shouldn't be an issue.

hey, youre the one who sold me fent in teh dennys parking lot

Thanks a lot for this! Very helpful.

already have one of these bad boys on a server with some mates but im now inspired to do a re-design

If you're doing this in a pack with mystical agriculture, you can fully automate the netherrack too

11:35 i always got a overstess Clutch at 50 ticks for Main power line before i do something but if i make a new factory i use a extra set at 30 ticks so if something goes wrong it doesnt shut down its self and i use the windmell to start the fatory with a clutch so i can stop it if i want becuse like i wanna try a farm and see how much the other fatory gives so yeah

I made an infinite water source, but the boiler sucks it up immediately. Do infinite water sources just not count as infinite unless it's 10,000 blocks like lava or biodiesel?

This video got me, I have to get into this mod.

With Create Stuff and Additions, you can power the blazde burners directly by giving them straws

I'm still somewhat confused, for my boiler I have a lava system pumping directly into the blaze burners, in order to use the blaze cakes do I have to remove the lava piping system I have set up?

My mechanical hand is taking the bucket even when its empty

If I wanted a build where it's a steam engine that can be slowly turned on with a hand crank how could I do that. I want to make one that's not always on and has a thematic generator feel when turning it on. I imagine it would be the crank contracting to the mechanical hand but I'm not sure if it'd produce enough SU to actually turn it on.

This man could legit be the best teacher at my school

a year ago I used kelp blocks, I farmed them then cooked then crafted into a block, which was a way to do it but not really good

You don't need dripstone blocks, just the dripstone themselves. The lava will drip through essentially any standard block. I use glass.

You could also download any of the Many many addon mods for create there is even one called liquid fuel that allows you to power blaze burners directly with copper pipes with lava

Otimo videos, que lo cura🤟

You can actually use mechanical pumps in a line and they'll power each other like small cogs! You can just build a 3x3 hole with water and place the pumps in a straight line down the middle, powering one which causes the other two to be powered as well

On passive one, you can put the steam engine on the side, compacting it.

8:55 respect for using belts to transfer rotational power

13:03 - The sequential gearshifter thing went over my head. I'm at 1.20 and I can only make it turn 360 once. No idea how you made it turn constantly.

Great tutorial ive built this on my multiplayer server except for the windmill everything was was functional but out of the blue my mechanical arm started to loop and i havent been able to fix it since so do you have any advise on this?