Volcanic Steam power : Tutorial nuggets : Oxygen not included

My automation wires melts down

What I expected: A quick and easy guide on how to make a simple steam power engine.
What I got: bunch of cheats, cheese, exploits and bugs.

i am an assclown

Useful info, the map I'm on (rime) has the geo-active trait so far I've uncovered 6 volcanoes (1 copper and 5 magma).

now you can have 2 upgraes to the system.
a) have autosweeper and coneyor on sweep, recycle cold ignious through debree chiller and feed it to hatches.
once in a while come by and mark coldest ignious for extraction.
b) having a loop of hydrogen to even out temps so you can run more turbines without edges being overheating/slow.

Wich mod is this? How can i get this mod?

This setup hurts my head, ill pass

Thanks for the video, Francis! I wish this worked for me. Not sure what's wrong with my game, but I cannot get the magma blade to operate like shown. I tried 8, 9, 10, 11 tiles, nothing. I'll just seal the magma volcanoes like usual. over 2,500 hours on this game and I'm still a noob, lol. Cheers!

Lol why is this guy sounds like mr. Burns? XD

I followed this exactly and let in the first bit of magma. Moments after, the thermosensor (below the cooling pipe from the steam turbines above) became entombed with sand. Any thoughts? Did it get too hot too fast? Thx

Today I learned you can run a transformer in the opposite way I have always done so...

before this i just used the steel mechanized door trick to input heat from magma now i get free igneous too

I wonder if this will work in the Spaced out DLC

Can igneous rock buildup course lag

So the new map I started got like... 6+ active volcanoes and I have no idea to dig out the super hot obsidian to vacuum out the area to begin with

Pretty cool. I built it on a test world and it's pretty neat. A question though, is it normal for the Steam Turbines to be in a state where heat is slowly rising?

With each cycle that passes, around 3 or so degrees gets added to its temperature and the whole Aquatuner setup isn't doing anything other than stall the rising temperature.

For purposes of practicality, I'm using crude oil as a coolant. I've tried a bunch of other stuff as well in the Steam Turbine room such as: Filling it with hydrogen or oxygen, vaccuming it and putting on a thin layer of crude oil/water/pwater over the turbines but the temperature is still slowly going up.

At this rate, I think the turbines need to be turned off every 50 cycles or so in order for it to cool down.

Hey Francis they changed the mechanics the door wont trap the debris inside anymore it will pop it back on top :(

It seems my mechanized airlock can't trap the debris inside it, the igneous rock always end up on top when it closes. Is this the result of some updates, or am I doing things wrong?

Dude i was like "nice i have a vulcano, bet i can use it to generate power somehow!" ...1day later: "still dont know how the F it works!" O.o

One benefit of this usage of heat over a petroleum boiler is that it's power that doesn't require power. Yeah you need to have the aquatuner running every so often, but it's still a fairly independent way of getting power. The downside of relying solely on petro boilers for power is that if you overtax your power network, you boiler pump will stop, which will stop the flow of petroleum and cause a fair significant brownout. Just thought it was worth mentioning.

can i use mafic rock instead of diamond?

I don't see how this is worth it, the steam turbines are barely paying off the costs of the door + aquatuner.

Thankyou so much for your vids!!

Two turbines 1700w. A tuner 1200w. Net 500w. It's really not worth the time. If you are ranching one coal plant is 600w which you could run 24/7 because of your hatch ranch. So why waste the time when you can do the same thing with 1 coal plant.

wtf are the automation values

hey john, I built one of these on an excess volcano in the map, I used your 2nd design that drops the debris into the door. However, no matter what time I set the filter gate to, from 0.5 all the way to 1.5, the debris doesn't fall into the door, its only left ontop at around 1200 degrees, and really heating everything super slow, I'm wondering if there is something I might have done wrong?

what about minor volcanos?

oni picked the magma blade from minecraft

Hi John. I love your tutorials. I have a question:
why can't you use the same setup of a petroleum boiler to extract the heat in a more efficient way?

Might be worth issuing corrections as bugs get fixed. Dumping magma into igni rock no longer deletes the heat. Kind of important for this stuff.

the 1400+°C Igneous rock inside an airlock door doesn't work anymore?

Very good tutorial thanks for the video! Just one question: can you somehow collect the igneous rock from the volcano?

Exploits not included!

What if i dump water on it and put steam turbine on top

The second design (the one where the debris is trapped in the door) doesn't seem to work anymore? At least when I tried, and no matter how long I left the door open and no fresh magma dropping ('cause the level was too low), the debris always seemed to pop back up on top of the door. Since there was no magma creating a new debris chunk I know it wasn't that. Anyway...

Has that bug/exploit been patched out or something?

this doesn't seem too hard to understand for me but I am too lazy for this type of project in a normal playthrough. This could be really nice with some additional power and super coolant, to keep parts of the base at a desired temperature.

First, thanks for this very well explain tutorial. It works well for me at the begin but the mesh title keep being fill by magma :s even if i decrease the door at 0.3s and 200s timer for the easy design :-s

"I know I talk a bit quickly"
Me: is watching at 2x speed

Even though this is older now, can't you use the dupes-can-pick-up-stuff-diagnonally to remove the debris from inside the chamber, if needed? Wouldn't a sweeper outside set to only to pick up debris marked sweep only work there?

Does the type of volcano matter ( minor volcano, volcano) ???

I came back here for a bit of a refresher, as my latest colony is on a frozen world, but it has a leaky oil fissure, and across abyssalite from it (almost directly above it) I found a volcano melting all the rock around it, by the time I got up to it to get a good idea about it, I saw another volcano a matter of about 10 tiles directly above that volcano... So I needed to figure out how to handle THAT much magma to steal heat for my farms and create a long term power source. Hard to turn down free heat and power on an icy asteroid.

So, I'm a year late here, but eh.... have some of these door mechanics been fixed? I have painstakingly constructed this exact setup (the "simple" version with 1 door) and ... magma doesn't drop when the door opens.

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this doesn't work anymore

Steam turbines need to produce more KW. With the aquatuner and 2 turbines the net power is pretty terrible.

These kind of things would break immersion in a survival game.

So I wasn’t the first to think of this energy source

Love the mechanics explanations and demonstrations. Way more fun/useful than a typical "build" video.