Factorio pYanodon's S2E2 - Automation Happening Already!

Maybe you address this later in the video, I'm just casually watching, but steam under 100C isn't steam, so maybe the useful temperature difference is 235-100=135C of difference. I know the game doesn't really use "real" physics tho, so who knows

Havnt finished the video, and i could be wrong but I thin kyour over complicating the steam engines. Its using the full amount of steam, but the steam is at half its max ttemp, jsut resulting in 1/2 the amount of power. If you put the full 500 degree steam in you would get the full power output with full steam input.

How come your game seems to skip a frame every few seconds or so.?

How did you remove that ash from helmod?

BTW. You can always take one side of the belt with an underground belt. This way you can route coal from the ore belt to the plate belt.

As for the boiler ratio problem. I personally use Blueprint Sandboxes Mod, so I can switch to a creative level on the fly to test something, or to create a blueprint.

what is ash used for? or is it just there to be obnoxious?

The boiler shows 3.5MW max output. But if you actually load it to its max while only supplying 7.5 steam/s at 250°C it will drop to 1/4th of its max output of 7.28MW. So, supplying 15 steam/s even at 250°C makes a difference (as soon as you need more than 1.76MW of power)

And regarding the efficiency: The efficiency stat will actually only show, if it's not equal to 100%. So I'd assume the boilers would be at a 100%, but I might be wrong here.

Lets go more content

Boiler to engine ratio is based on steam per second not temp. Boiler says it produces 7.5 but engine consumes 15 regardless of temp. In order to get the 7.3MW you need 15 of 500C steam. 15/sec of 250C provides half of max power. Providing a lower amount of steam drops the max power even more. The actual power output is dependent on temp. The number of MJ used is probably the same. How much coal consumed per sec is dependent on power not the steam. You would have to determine coal consumption time to figure efficiency. Actual steam and therefore coal used is based on actual power consumption.