Barrels of Steam

by forsyth

This mod adds steam barrels at 165 °C and 500 °C, and optionally 15 °C.

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3 years ago
0.17 - 1.1
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b [closed] Pyanodon Supercritical 5000C steam and Pressurised 1500C steam gets barrelled at 15C.

4 years ago

Hi!

I tried to optimise the antimatter energy setup at the Pyanodon base.

It seems that the latest upgrade of 15C steam have also influenced the barreling of the Pyanodon steam system.

When I barrel 5000C supercritical steam and 1500C pressurised steam it gets barrelled at 15C.
Neither of these steam types can then be used in the typical machines as the machines do not accept them.
It works with pipes.

Would you mind to have a look?

Attached a save game. The energy setup with the reactor is in the upper right corner of the base.
https://we.tl/t-J5os5bCsur

Thank you !!

4 years ago

Hi, I tried your save, both with and without this mod, and in both cases supercritical steam and pressurised steam unbarrel at 15 °C.
So I don't think it's anything to do with this mod. I checked for name conflicts but couldn't see anything.

I think Pyanodons (or whichever mod the supercritical/pressurised steam unbarrelling recipes are coming from) just forgot to specify the output temperature when unbarreling. Or they intentionally specified 15 °C.

I tried looking in the source of the other mods to confirm this, but I couldn't actually find the recipes.
Weirdly, in-game it doesn't show which mod those recipes come from. It just lists "Base mod > Barrel Size" as the source, which doesn't make much sense.
The game thinks those recipes are part of the base game.

I wonder if there's something in the base game that automatically generates barrelling and unbarrelling recipes when new fluid types are defined.
It would make a lot of sense. When I was originally making this mod, I planned to clone the water barreling recipes and make changes so that they would use steam instead, but I found that those recipes were nil on startup in data.lua, so I had to write the recipes from scratch.
In that case, the base game probably doesn't consider temperature at all when creating these recipes.

I guess you could try contacting Pyanodon and see if they know anything about those recipes.
They probably have to update these recipes to have temperature requirements for barrelling and temperatures for unbarrelling, or add recipes of their own.

3 years ago

Yeah 15°C would be the default vanilla fluid temperature, I'm guessing that the ability to unbarrel different steam temperatures might be new to 0.17 ?
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/steambarrel

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