Bio Industries


Provides useful buildings and items, like the Bio Farm for growing trees. Solar Farm and Large Accumulator to make your electric setup easier. Bio Fuel section to produce organic plastic and batteries. Lots of New Wood Products, like the big electric pole, wooden pipes, dart turret. Plant trees using seedlings. Change terrain from deserts to grasslands using Fertilizer - helps trees grow better. And a lot more… Please visit the homepage on the forums for more information and feedback.

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g Solar plant with boiler help

5 years ago

I've posted a couple of screenshots below showing my setup.
The way I assumed I could use these was to overbuild solar for daytime power needs, and have the boiler component fill up tanks with steam that some attached steam engines could use at night, in place of accumulators.

The problem is that once night time hits, the boilers start consuming all of the power that the steam engines are generating, presumably in order to top up the steam tanks, and starving the rest of my factory of power.

My setup, tiled several times:
http://u.cubeupload.com/halfdeadone/201902061.png

The power graph at night:
http://u.cubeupload.com/halfdeadone/20190206.png

5 years ago
(updated 5 years ago)

I tried switching up my design by removing the Boiler panels from my power grid and making them act soley as solar powered boilers, having the steam engines be my main power source even during the day.

This seems to work ok, and as long as I'm producing excess power, it is stored as steam in the tanks to be used at night.

http://u.cubeupload.com/halfdeadone/201902063.png

5 years ago

Hey HalfDeadOne,
First off, your setup looks very clean!

As you know, there is no "true" solar furnaces in the game, so mine is a rigged one.
What you can try is to put a one way valve from the solar to your tanks holding the steam. Maybe add a few extra steam tanks.

Another possibility is not to connect the solar power grid to the generator grid. Or manage it via switches.

Let me know what you figure out...

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