I'm right now testing diesel locomotives with various fluids I know HAVE fuel values and it seems to work only with oils
Looks like it gives them arbitrary fuel values instead of using fluid properties
So this is an issue with diesel locomotives mod, not my mod
Correct, sorry. So, Diesel Locomotives can't consume fluids directly like fluid boilers can. The fluid has to be pumped into an invisible storage tank, then it counts up the contents and creates "fake" fluids (basically renamed solid fuel) for the locomotive to burn instead.
At this time, Diesel Locomotive does not respect fuel values assigned to fluids due to a number of factors, such as different balances between mods and the fact that we weren't looking to actually support every fluid with a fluid value (just cause you can burn it for power generation doesn't mean it'd be used for mechanical motion generation). After all, there could be a mod that adds fuel value to water cause their power generator would use that... but obviously that doesn't make sense for this use case (and to be honest, from my PoV, neither does Hydrogen).
That said, I'm still working on updating and revising the mod. I've been toying with the idea of just making the mod a core library for any locomotive wishing to use fluids, then putting the locomotives themselves into separate mods.
