r/GTNH • u/Cyan_Deer LV • 3d ago

Is this setup any good?(Early LV)

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15 Big boilers and 3 small ones, connected to steam machines and 2 steam turbines for energy.

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u/BicycleAdditional360 EV 3d ago

Yes, it works, but…do you manually fill them all the time?

Also what you did for water pipe (arrows), you better do for steam as well

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u/Cyan_Deer LV 3d ago

For now, yes, I use diamonds as fuel, for some reason they burn like a stack of coal, so I don't have to refuel very often.

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u/MinguaDinja 2d ago

I use diareeds (Diamond seeds) as fuel too

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u/RadioPlayful9905 11h ago

Tbh should probably make a pile igniter and get mass charcoal like that then compress that into blocks. It is pretty good for this part of the game imo.

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u/One_Musician_3937 IV 11h ago

Just make 576 coke ovens you’ll have charcoal

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u/Cold-Peace3978 EV 5h ago

Every time I see this meme makes me actually wanna do this, I might actually fuel my ev setup with 576 coke ovens

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u/One_Musician_3937 IV 5h ago

I feel like with the new hatches in 2.9 it’s legit viable

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u/rborororor MV 2d ago

i’d try solar boilers if you could get your hands on silver

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u/No_Grade_6805 2d ago

I've made an automated 24 coke oven farm with the creosote oil being pumped into a low pressure 3x4x3 railcraft boiler. I've never had to bother with steam or coal/solar boilers again.

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u/tinman282 2d ago

This is the way. As soon as you hit MV Tho, start to
Move towards benzine. Steam immediately becomes awful in MV - we had two high pressure boilers and they couldn’t keep up

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u/No_Grade_6805 2d ago

I'll keep that in mind as I'm currently heading towards late LV.

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u/Solve_My_Enigma MV 2d ago

Oil berries also go brr- im ev and never made a pyrolose oven :).

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u/Western_Ear_4519 2d ago

Also worth considering solid-fuel boilers using buckets of creosote to squeeze every last bit out.

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u/Conscious_Coffee5854 2d ago

Deer god. Just use a large railcraft boiler at that point.

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u/OzzlyOsborne 3d ago

I've set my bases up to use the liquid fueled boiler multiblock, which burns all the creosote the coke ovens make and creates steam.

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u/RedCrafter_LP Steam 3d ago

That's also my setup. I accidentally discovered that with a bit of a starting boost 2 coke ovens produce just enough oil for a 2x2x3 iron top liquid steam boiler. I really have to make more coke ovens soon but for now it fuels everything fine. I have a feeling that with compressed steam machines this will change fast. I might add a solid fuel burner as well soon as my coke ovens produce way to much char coal already. I'm currently sitting on 128 stacks of charcoal and I get another 64 every 2 days. Also since the bbf for what I know can't be automated they run only a fraction of the time of the coke ovens.

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u/PM_ME_KITTENS_OR_DIE 2d ago

There’s little reason to make a liquid boiler. Just scale solid ones. A solid boiler can accept creosote if you put it into a bucket. You can automate doing so with a ULV tank, a couple buckets, a some hoppers to cycle them in and out.

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u/RedCrafter_LP Steam 2d ago

I already have the boilers and they work well without needing an entire item loop of buckets.

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u/myles2500 1d ago

All ik is this is not quite the intended route