Excellent primer on the steam system GMod! I like to use turbine systems for simplicity, but I have a few ships with steam props. They're a pain to set up, but they're a FUN pain lol.
They are really fun to make, and on Friday a tutorial for steam propeller crafts will be uploaded explaining the gear ratio and speed of the shaft and all that people might not know XD Tbh, I almost have no real steam turbine ships at all because I am still a engine person lol, but will try make more steam because it is cooler!
Thank you! I was struggling on how to make steam engines more efficient. I never knew you could reuse the outputs. I think I have a really good idea for an efficient design now
Awesome and good luck! The more it is reused the less power it yields, but this is rarely a problem for high pressure/massive boiler configurations. Also stay tuned for weekly tips!
@@GMODISM I am a really big fan of how steam engines work and how much power they produce, but I don't like how inefficient they are when I was making them. My main focus is not losing 200 mats per second 😭
I used to reuse piston exhaust for some of my ships, but at some point I just stopped bothering with it. I guess it was because I had no idea what it did until now!
I usually just make full hydro electric setups instead of using steam for kinetic drive, I don't know the numbers on efficiency compared to using gearboxes over just efficient turbines and using an electric engine, but it never seems worth using the enormous amount of space and additional bits that can break.
@@GMODISM When I first bought the game they were not in either but when I got back to it and actually started playing they were. I just couldnt get through the tutorial the first times, and I couldnt find good info online to help me doing that, I basically tried once every 4-6 months and gave up until it finally clicked, now I've infected half my friends w FtD xD
I'm completely stuck on attaching pistons to crankshafts, and this video seems to skip over that entirely. It's less of a tutorial and more a bunch of handy tips to get more out of steam engines for those who already know how to make them work. I'm trying to make a large steam engine turbine system for a large ship, and I'm really regretting even opening this can of worms because I've made lasers, cram cannons, APS, fuel engines, this is easily giving me the biggest headache of all of the systems I've learned so far. But, regular electrically powered engines don't seem to give nearly as much push for the amount of propeller blocks, so if I want this behemoth to be as quick as possible it's got to be steam apparently. At this point I'm considering giving up and using aircraft props.
I finally figured out where I was tripped up. My cased cranks weren't rotated properly to fit with my pistons (the four pillars on its top need to be placed under the four legs of the piston, relatively speaking), but the error message it was giving me was that it wasn't connected to a gear box, so I was just incredibly confused, and of course the in game tutorial uses small steam engines so I didn't recognize how the parts were supposed to rotate to line up. Gmodism's other, older tutorial was much more helpful in letting me see what was going wrong with my design, since he was using large steam engine parts in that tutorial as well. th-cam.com/video/CN4BKSnDaFg/w-d-xo.html
For one it's cool, other than that it's the best electric power generator and high health low blockcount engines with a lot of power, also one of the cheapest ways to get a lot of propeller thrust.
This is an old video, but when I replicate the setup, two pistons, three boilers, etc, my power output is much lower, did they nerf steam since this video came out?
could it be possible to recycle the exaust back into the engine without adding another piston. like a loop that loses steam over time, refilled by the boiler that only adds steam when the engine is below a certain pressure?
Power scales with the pressure difference between the inputs and outputs. That's why power dropped when the output was reused, since the output didn't have an open pipe to escape from so it was higher pressure, so less power. Additionally, lower pressure steam can't magically become high pressure, so you can't re pressurize it to feed the pistons again.
Excellent primer on the steam system GMod! I like to use turbine systems for simplicity, but I have a few ships with steam props. They're a pain to set up, but they're a FUN pain lol.
They are really fun to make, and on Friday a tutorial for steam propeller crafts will be uploaded explaining the gear ratio and speed of the shaft and all that people might not know XD
Tbh, I almost have no real steam turbine ships at all because I am still a engine person lol, but will try make more steam because it is cooler!
Thank you! I was struggling on how to make steam engines more efficient. I never knew you could reuse the outputs. I think I have a really good idea for an efficient design now
Awesome and good luck! The more it is reused the less power it yields, but this is rarely a problem for high pressure/massive boiler configurations. Also stay tuned for weekly tips!
@@GMODISM I am a really big fan of how steam engines work and how much power they produce, but I don't like how inefficient they are when I was making them. My main focus is not losing 200 mats per second 😭
I used to reuse piston exhaust for some of my ships, but at some point I just stopped bothering with it. I guess it was because I had no idea what it did until now!
Well now you know! ;)
I usually just make full hydro electric setups instead of using steam for kinetic drive, I don't know the numbers on efficiency compared to using gearboxes over just efficient turbines and using an electric engine, but it never seems worth using the enormous amount of space and additional bits that can break.
Yeah, normal engines are great too for power but man, steam pistons is just so extremely cool!
@@GMODISM Yeah that's why when I first started with FTD I powered my first crafts with steam, and direct kinetic prop drives
Cool, when I started they didn't exist so I stuck with normal propellers far too long haha!
@@GMODISM When I first bought the game they were not in either but when I got back to it and actually started playing they were. I just couldnt get through the tutorial the first times, and I couldnt find good info online to help me doing that, I basically tried once every 4-6 months and gave up until it finally clicked, now I've infected half my friends w FtD xD
@@ainumahtar good thing!
I'm completely stuck on attaching pistons to crankshafts, and this video seems to skip over that entirely. It's less of a tutorial and more a bunch of handy tips to get more out of steam engines for those who already know how to make them work.
I'm trying to make a large steam engine turbine system for a large ship, and I'm really regretting even opening this can of worms because I've made lasers, cram cannons, APS, fuel engines, this is easily giving me the biggest headache of all of the systems I've learned so far. But, regular electrically powered engines don't seem to give nearly as much push for the amount of propeller blocks, so if I want this behemoth to be as quick as possible it's got to be steam apparently. At this point I'm considering giving up and using aircraft props.
I finally figured out where I was tripped up. My cased cranks weren't rotated properly to fit with my pistons (the four pillars on its top need to be placed under the four legs of the piston, relatively speaking), but the error message it was giving me was that it wasn't connected to a gear box, so I was just incredibly confused, and of course the in game tutorial uses small steam engines so I didn't recognize how the parts were supposed to rotate to line up. Gmodism's other, older tutorial was much more helpful in letting me see what was going wrong with my design, since he was using large steam engine parts in that tutorial as well. th-cam.com/video/CN4BKSnDaFg/w-d-xo.html
steam! but why should i want to use it over fuel engines?
For one it's cool, other than that it's the best electric power generator and high health low blockcount engines with a lot of power, also one of the cheapest ways to get a lot of propeller thrust.
Steam valves take emp damage so make to put a few surge protectors
fuuuuu they doo?!? OMG I missed that, gotta change my big ships design lol
@@GMODISM yea some one in the help channel told me then I check and my soul almost left my body
This is an old video, but when I replicate the setup, two pistons, three boilers, etc, my power output is much lower, did they nerf steam since this video came out?
I use steam turbines to build airplanes 👍 its very easy to get electric charge, convert it into engine power, and then place down some jet engines
Very cool! But is it not more efficient to just use Custom Jet Engines?
Actually yes! I just like having steam fly out of the plane when its hit! Im not really the efficient kinda guy 😂
Well @@maikeldekwant Steam Thrusters would be a cool steampunk plane addition ;)
@@GMODISM im actually using them at this very moment! 👍 Still kinda figuring out if their power scales depending on how much steam is in the system 🤔
could it be possible to recycle the exaust back into the engine without adding another piston. like a loop that loses steam over time, refilled by the boiler that only adds steam when the engine is below a certain pressure?
No, because then steam would not move out of the system at all, engine stops, try it and you'll see.
Power scales with the pressure difference between the inputs and outputs. That's why power dropped when the output was reused, since the output didn't have an open pipe to escape from so it was higher pressure, so less power.
Additionally, lower pressure steam can't magically become high pressure, so you can't re pressurize it to feed the pistons again.
thanks
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Is anyone else having issue with transmittions not working properly as it keeps saying no output power and won't spin the shaft
today i was yee years old that i learned i should recycle my steam pressure
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