Fluid Heat Dissipation

by valertron

Your steam won’t stay hot forever. Every pipe segment, tank or underground line drains heat - and once the steam cools to 100°C, your generators shut down. Build smarter, route tighter, or watch your entire power grid collapse

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4 days ago

2.0 - 2.1

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Changelog

Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-09-07
  Compatibility:
    - Migrated to Factorio 2.1.17+ and the direct LuaEntity fluid segment API
    - This release supports Nauvis and vanilla steam engines/turbines only
    - Saves from 0.3.x are not supported and no migration is provided
  Performance:
    - Preserved segment batching and removed idle full-segment status scans

Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2025-12-22
  Optimizations:
    - Added nth-tick update option

Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2025-12-20
  Features:
    - Added water dissipation

Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2025-12-16
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed the steam buffer entity not being deleted when mined by a robot

Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2025-12-08
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed "Fluid amount has to be positive" bug and ignore fluid-wagon

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2025-11-29
  Features:
    - Steam condenses into water at 100 degrees and can flood the system

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2025-11-23
  Features:
    - Steam engines and turbines shut down when steam temperature is too low

Version: 0.0.1
Date: 2025-11-23
  Info:
    - Initial release