Imagine how the world would look today if the industrial revolution happened during the height of the Roman empire. It only took a 120ish years to go from an agrarian society to a space-faring society. Where would we be after a couple thousand?
Wouldn't that have been insane, in fact I read that in the 1500s a spaniard pitched the idea of a steam boat to the monarchy but was denied! Could you imagine if steam powered boats had been invented over 200 years early?
The reason it didn't catch on was that it wasn't worth investing the resources into it at the time when you could just have slaves do the same job. When it was invented again, it was during a time where we started to realize that slavery really wasn't such a good idea any more.
@@ZordlistairOh it's not that it wasn't a good idea, it was actually very good at first. But then they realized that with the increase in prices, having to buy slaves, feed them, maintain them and give them shelter was no longer worthwhile. Of course, the mentality was also changing and human ethics was making itself felt. And so slavery was abandoned, or rather revolutionized, moving on to feudalism, and for the same reason reaching where we are today (mostly) democracy.
@@Zordlistair Economically, slaves were still a good idea, at least when it came to purchase price. They didn't need to be paid, they would prevent crashes between vessels (they don't want to drown, after all), and the price to feed and house them would be roughly comparable to the coal needed for the steam generation. The difference wasn't that slavery wasn't a good idea, it was that slavery was starting to be seen as immoral (and rightly so). Morals don't decide if something is a good idea or not, they just decide if it's acceptable or not. I think almost everybody can agree slavery is not acceptable, at least.
@@KuraiLunae Slaves were definitely not a good idea for the Romans economically. When slave labour started to expand after the punic wars, a TON of economic problems started to arise. Just to name the biggest one, wealthy landowners would buy up everything and make slaves work on their estates, this made them extremely rich and displaced every peasant and made them find another way to live. Most of these people moved to the cities to try to find work(as all farm work was clogged up with slaves) and this put huge pressure on the central government to provide them with free or heavily discounted grain or, well, they would riot. There simply wasn't enough work to do in the cities for everyone It drastically increased social inequality and put a big strain on the central government economically. The roman tax system regarding the nobles was also questionable and made this worse. Basically, you could choose to pay taxes later, and what this meant is that whenever a new governor came, he would try to make friends with all the elites in province by forgiving their tax debt. This problem was by far the biggest in Gaul and heavily increased the tax burden on the common person, as the rich were mostly not paying their share. This is of course mostly an issue of tax forgiving but if slaves didn't exist, this wouldn't be such a big problem because the rich wouldn't have so much influence and the common person could afford to pay their taxes. In general, slavery made ONLY the elites rich. The fraction of taxes they paid that was gotten from slavery was immediately distributed back to the people that were displaced by slaves. I am confident in saying that if the Romans didn't have slaves, their economy would have been significantly more robust. It's much easier to tax the common people than the elites. Slavery is often cited as one of the factors that lead to it's downfall
Newcomen steam engines were actually fairly commonplace for draining mines of water to allow crews to reach deeper ore deposits, They were so critical that if they had not been invented the industrial revolution may have never even begun.
12:47 You absolutely can have it place directly onto the depot that fills the bucket with lava. I always do that with my steam engines. The trick is to use 2 buckets, choose the blaze burners for depositing to before you select the depot under the spout, and set the mechanical arm to "prefer first". The second bucket prevents the depot under the spout from being empty unless the mechanical arm has already picked up the bucket from the lower depot. Since the top depot will already have something, the mechanical arm won't pick the bucket up from the lower depot unless there's a blaze burner to fuel, and prefer first ensures the mechanical arm will prioritize the blaze burner, preventing it from picking up the bucket from the lower depot, the bucket from the upper depot moving to the lower depot, then the arm seeing the upper depot is empty and putting its bucket back on the upper depot. The end result is the arm will only pick up a lava bucket to fuel a blaze burner, then afterwards placing the empty bucket on the upper depot. On top of that, instead of spending brass and an electron tube on a second depot, you instead spend 3 iron, saving the more valuable brass.
Howdy, crafts and additions user here: I love using an infinite source of biofuel to fuel my 2 level 18 steam engines, it took me forever to get the 80k sugar, 80k netherrack, 320k crops and 160k seeds to make 10k buckets of biofuel but it was worth it
@@dejojotheawsome since you replied I’ve got one more question for a non creative steam engine build should I just try to use gear ups to power the steam engine or would something else be easier
I'm full of steam engine facts like did you know Leonardo da Vinci actually drew up plans for a steam powered cannon that would be able to fire projectiles that weighed 110lbs or 50kg! And that many of his principles were used to invent the first commercial steam engine in 1712 despite the fact that his description of his cannon was found 100 years later! It's possible the cannon may have worked if it had been attempted pontially revolutionizing combat and starting an early industrial revolution
love using the lava, i used a pointed dripstone farm for a while, to fill up my own main lava source, while also making manual trips back and forth, because i decided i was going to look into trains after my lava farm was setup. but anyways i now have a nice big old infinite lava pool with 2 extractors using lava. running 5 level 9 generators and that, is quite overkill for a while
side note: the blaze burner with straw also accepts flammable liquids from other mods such as immersive engineering ethanol, seed oil, and biodiesel AND u can make immersive seed oil in basins by pressing them AND immersive biodiesel actually superheats them and if u want u can drain the ie jerrycans with fluid drains
Great video. I just finished upgrading my create mod stuff to 1.19.2 with the most recent create release after playing in 1.18.2 for several months, just so I can use the Enchantment Add On. I'll have to make these changes to my steam engines so they can run better.
This is a really comprehensive guide, really well put together as well! Never knew that you could just, light empty blaze burners, but you learn something new every day I suppose lol
You can put funnel on top of the depot pointing in. Filter it for empty buckets only. Then tell arm to use depot as source and burner and funnel as destination. Boom, much simpler, cheaper, and more compact feeding design.
It shoud be noted, there is nothing stopping you from making a pit of 10,000 lava in the over world in order to supply it without inter dimensional travel. Although id recommend doing this by filling up tanks in the nether, moving them to the over world via train, and extracting to put in the pit.
11:55 - If you place the brass funnel directly on top of the first depot, aimed towards the depot and with an empty bucket filter, it should work and you won't need the second depot and funnel. Edit: I add a fluid container for the lava and let that fill a bit before starting it. I think the bucket always being filled right away plays into not needing a second depot.
Oh wow, I was just watching your playlist of create mods and you posted this video! Haha, will make sure to watch, keep it up! Also, is there a tutorial about trains coming anytime soon?
Another fun thing about Create: New Age is that the reactor isn't even necessary. You can have heat pipes above lava pools and use heat pumps to transfer heat over to the boiler heaters. Infinite idle power at the cost of real estate. (It gets pretty space-hungry for all the pools but that's a small price to pay for some light cheesing lol)
Something you dont actually need for the lava setup is a seperate depot. The mechanical arm doesnt need to be particularly fast since theyre "smart" and, if slow enough, will take long enough to pick up the full bucket after the spout happens.
it should be noted that it doesn't matter how you arrange your boilers. Nine level 1 steam engines produces the same power as one level 9. Two level 9s is the same as one level 18. You probably shouldn't bother with a level 18 as it's more expensive fuel for the same output as 2 9s.
Another way to get unlimited lava is to change the unlimited fluid source settings in config. Sure this only works for single player or server owners, but its very nice if you play with worldgen mods as my volcano base now has all the lava I need without needing nether portals and minecarts which isnt the best for preformance
Another way you can fuel a blaze burner by lava is to create a lava tank and pump the lava from that tank into all blaze burners, this is nowhere near as space efficient as the bucket method but yeah, I am also quite new to create so if the lava bucket thing is better please do let me know :)
I know it’s been 3 months, but I have a question: what power source would be recommended to generate the power needed for the whole assembly in a survival world?
This has been driving me insane. What block do you use to line the bottom of you outer wall that surrounds the platform you’re working on? I thought it was andesite from the chipped mod or something but I can’t find anything that looks close. You can see what I’m talking about at 7:50
i haven't seen this anywhere, but if you want to use lava to power your blaze burners, you can just pump from the lava source to the underside of the blaze burner, no mechanical arm needed. Of course, this doesn't lend itself to using blaze cakes later.
Hey im trying to get a mechanical arm setup for the auto lava feeder but my mechanical arm wont left click on the brass funnel and highlight up yellow what can i do?? Any suggestions???
I was thinking of making a create addon that lets you make separate boilers and steam engines, so you could have a boiler in one room and the steam engines in the other, I was also thinking of adding more steam engine variants, such as a copycat steam engine, tilted steam engine (its on a wedge) and a copycat variant of that too Too bad I dunno how to properly mod Minecraft :P
What if u use every stressunits that steam engine produce, wouldn't it be overstressed while mechanical arm refueling blaze burners? Because they won't be fueled for like one sec after they finished
Hi, I have all of create, which has a mod called create teleporters, and it works with tele juice, which comes from chorus fruit, do you know any way of making an automated farm for chorus fruits or chorus flowers that automatically plant? I have all the idea but can't get the deployers to plant the chorus flower on endstone
Can you exolain more on the infinate lava source. I have tge max built 3x3x8 with the water pump seprated at 256rpm and lava pump separated at 256rpm *with a 8x9 dripstone farm* but cant max the rpms on the chain drived engines. Water line is just perfect size is perfect but heat is at 50% so my engine rpms are only set to 96 (which is perfect stressed) before its over stressed. When i saw someone build this exact same engine he was at 256 both pumps separate and 128rpm on the engines and it was a perfect stress at around 256k SU. Mine onky says 119k su? I dont understand why.
I beg to differ abt the usability of the egg engine in survival, as long as you have entity culling the 15 some odd thousand chickens required to fuel it doesnt actually produce as much lag as youd think. I can stare directly into my active chicken core and maintain a solid 30 fps on a rather dated potato system
Caveat being that the chickens HAVE to be completely obscured so that the entity culling will prevent them from being rendered otherwise 👀 and 15k chickens doesnt take that long to get, you just use a sequenced chicken egg farm, each chamber continuously fills the next with more chickens, which in turn increases how fast eggs are being sent into the following chambers, after like an hour or two with a 5 stage chicken farm and i had just over 24 thousand entities inside of it, tho that WILL lag like a mfer even with culling. I only did it bc i wanted to prove dejojo wrong abt if it was possible to use in survival
Is it normal for the 3x3 steam engine to use up all the water instantly? Im not able to pump water in fast enough to keep it going. Cant even manage to get it to power itself.
There's netherrack in volcanic plains or use the explorer compass to find ruined portal locations. And if you need nether bricks it's easier to haunt clay bricks with a soul campfire. You can get soulsand from a cleric villager.
@@dejojotheawsome So its possible to build a system that ransports items form a quarry to a storage? Btw are you planning on doing a tutorial on a quarry? because i wanted to clear a really large perimeter and maybe keep the resources :)
w-wat???? 30 BC????? i love the american education system T~T (yes i know it's a joke, it just hurts a tiny bit) correction: wrong steam tool, technically a steam turbine! :D edit after finishing the video, i have been all over the internet searching facts about steam & it's utilization, that the only thing i actually listened to was the ending facts LMAO
Yeah, yeah, but hear me out Water mill It works from nothing, doesn't loads your computer much and literally the earliest way to get eternally working stress generator.
If you are playing create: mekanized, it will be very useful to give power to your mekanism stuffs. As mekanism stuffs needs much power than usual create stuffs.
And Create Mod is well optimized. It will not give much stress on your PC. As I smoothly play minecraft 1.19.2 with Create Mod on 10 years old GPU. 300k esu steam engine doesn't create any performance impact.
