Yeah I love steam trains so much they need more in workshop

You have seen it in the near future which is now at the time of this reply

They have steam pistons now

someone's gonna rework their titanic and add boilers and furnaces since that's what the real thing had as well

It's only proper since we actually have steam engines now i already started working on a steam powered ship :)

Cool I might make a steam engine tomorrow to know how they wotk better

Well maybe not ships as I’m having my steam engines way to underpowered I’ve done everything I can to try and fix it I hope they fix this soon or I’m doing something wrong

And Nuclear Submarines aswell

I was expecting that more than turbines tbh

Bit difficult to have a massive turbine on a steam locomotive but much easier to fit a single pistol on each side.

I know, right.

I was expecting the boiler and firebox to be modular like a custom tank

@@mechannrt8561 That would have been cool.

@Railfan 765 Cruise liner

@Railfan 765 ocean liner. just changed it

@Railfan 765 well, when a cruise ship and an ocean liner love each other very much...

It’s the perfect boat hauler

@Railfan 765 You should be able to see it if you go into top screenshots for the week and go down until you see a 3 stacked ocean liner picture posted by orbitsoup.

upgrading things like the boiler would be cool too. Maybe add like, insulation blocks or insulated pipes to reduce heat loss from the boiler, which would demand less energy from the fire box to maintain the same pressure/tempersture.

yes the iconic chuffing noise and steam whistles would be great

@luisgamercool 26 10 ten reason why noobs trash

@luisgamercool 26 I’ve made a nuclear powered truck

Throttle+ variable valve

Or they just make a valve wheel kinda throttle lever

@@NCIA-93 use a power switch

@@NCIA-93 No, too much to ask. These devs are too inept. This much should be clear by now.

@@NPC_-mf4dw Too inept despite the fact they added functional military weapons, radar and sonar technology, steam and modular engine technology, pipe plumbing systems and valves, complex water physics (which, no matter how much you wanna nitpick it, is still better than most other games) gave the players three entirely different gamemodes, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. What is so inept about the Stormworks developers? Only thing I could criticize them for is their selling of player data to Google and 3rd party services without any notification or consent from the consumer and censoring all about it in their discord server, but that does not mean they are inept. Outside of that, the Stormworks developers have managed to create a successful game. Nitpicking with bland accusations without elaboration in several different comment threads does not make anything about them clear, only the fact that you like to nitpick with bland accusations without elaboration in several different comment threads. Enlighten me, professor.

it would be interesting but almost useless in this environment. probably about 15 hours of work. and probably massive and kill the frame rates. think somebody made one on the workshop. how do i know its useless ?? I built three diesel boat submarines stay down as long as you need and operate. nuclear power would only be needed if you were going to stay under the water for a really long time.

@@bustabusts well yeah it'd just be nice to have it around though nuclear could be used for way better things

@@bustabusts Physic flooders are you friend. Never experienced problems.

@Random Task no it turns out that it has a lot to do with mass versus your gearbox settings. a bunch of electric motors mixed with a clutch. you can make things that won't lag the game for a little bit but how far have you gotten in survival without it lagging

If the steam was released without being put into the condenser, you may have not had enough water to keep the system going. Try running the pressure relief system straight into the condenser instead of into the air( I’m assuming that’s what you did) and you should not lose any water.

@@jamesdeznuts5603 I had a full tank of fresh water that was pumping in, and was full, which is why I was confused about it. The engine ran fine, but stopped going over pressure. The boiler was full of steam and was loosing it. I wonder if my water pump is backwards, I'll check that next.

@@EnderMalcolm I had that to, but you can also see in the video that the tank still has 120 litres in it but it didn't go in the boiler for some reason, 14:11

Had the issue (with 1 medium tank) that the boiler volume would quite fast drop to 0 in a closed system. The reson was i was dumb and forgot to set the tank to fresh water.

@@t3n0n79 I had my condenser on backwards, it was blocking steam flow>.

Cut off the water circulating into the boiler, that will cool the boiler if you care about the boiler, then just empty the coal box and let it cool down. How many turbines do you use? Do you use a gearbox?

I saw black smoke and ran

Add more exhaust ports. This works to dissipate the exhaust density for some reason.

Not just the ocean, someone has already created a nuclear bomb on the workshop😂

@@rupertthedrone4717 yup, dirty bomb

As for current version of new patch, you have to regulate the coolant A and B boiler for pressure. For example, if you want to limit the boiler pressure at 2.5, you can stop it by using valve from firebox to the boiler. As soon as valve cut off, the pressure will continue build up and this is normal because pressure will slowly going down as the temperature boiler drop. At the same time, when the pressure below the threshold, the cycle continued. I hope it will help you.

Lol same

i was wondering this after playing around with them for a few hours. Usually IRL steam systems require a pressure difference to operate as efficiently as we would want them to, many Navy vessels used steam-powered vaccuum systems to help draw steam through turbines. That said, i can never seem to force my system to input more than about 2.7L/s into the turbine, no matter how much I sukk it back out again with pumps or additional boilers. It might be something that'll be altered soon, like the modular engines a while back, after having wider player feedback.

Nuclear Engine are underpowerd? not for me.

@@foty8679 I'm talkin about when you use them for large ships

@@foty8679 it may be a setup issue or an operation issue, but i've not had that much success with using them for ships. The power tends to be far too little to get above maybe 4-5 mph (of whatever the in-game speed it) and that's with the boiler at the point of bursting. :P

IRL, that would require a phase change (evaporative) cooling system, where whatever coolant youre using in your radiator actually changes phases from liquid into a gas. Such systems are simple if you treat the fluid as a consumable to exhaust, but complicated if you want to condense and reuse it. But, they have the potential to be really effective and efficient due to the sheer amount of energy fluids can absorb in a phase transition (and fluids at a phase transition will absorb energy without actually increasing in temperature, because the energy actually goes into the transition itself... Which is potentially beneficial if you want the fluid to stay under a certain temperature, but still absorb thermal energy). Evaporative cooling was used in the German ME-100 fighter in WW2. What made its system impressive was that, instead of using efficient, but draggy, air cooled radiators, it instead used the surface area of the wing as one giant radiator fin. This was one among many drag reduction techniques in that plane, which made it perform better than its competitor, the BF-109. In the end though, the ME-100 failed to be officially introduced into the luftwaffe, because... Well... Radiators are a week point in an engine. One round holing a radiator all but garuntees eventual engine failure once the coolant runs out. So which is more likely to be hit by incoming fire, a small radiator, or the entire wing? Also, the system was really complicated on the Me-100. I will say this though, I don't know how much energy you could squeeze out of a coolant system that uses evaporative cooling (at least, a system that includes a condensor that is. It would be easier in an open loop system). And furthermore, adding a turbine to the cooling loop would reduce the flow rate of that coolant... Which would in turn, reduce the cooling rate of your cooling system... Which in turn would maybe be more detrimental to your engine's output than any output you would gain from the coolant turbine... Which may be why this isn't typically done IRL. In theory, you could just engineer a beefier cooling system to compensate (bigger condensor, bigger radiator, more coolant), but then you're adding a ton of weight and complexity to the system. I dunno, its an interesting idea at least. A similar concept, the turbine power recovery system, was used in the last generations of military aircraft internal combustion engines in the USAF on planes like the B-50. This was basically like a turbo, except instead of using engine exhaust to spin a turbine to drive an intake impeller and compress intake air, the torque from the turbine was instead sent directly to whatever the engine was outputting power to, adding horespower directly to the system and assisting the engine directly in powering the propeller. It was an insanely complex system, and had similar engineering problems to your idea, (namely, how to do this without generating enough backpressure to reduce engine power). It worked well once developed, but development down this path was abandoned when the turbine power recovery was starting to achieve horsepowers that rivaled the internal combustion engine itself, and engineers asked themselves... Why TF are we developing this when we could instead ditch the complicated, maintenance hogging, less reliable internal combustion engine, and instead focus on developing better turbine technology, as those are relatively simple and cheap to maintain by comparison... As in, lets switch focus to building better jet engines, turbo props, and turboshaft engines instead. None of this has much to do with the game I guess, but I'm just thinking outloud about doing it IRL, and thinking about whether the game simulates RL enough to do it.

coming today!

It is probably loosing pressure. You have to balance steam out and water in, along with the heat of the boiler.

it only takes fresh water, not salt

It’s not bar FYI

In the most recent update, they broke condensers, so idk what to do.

@@overclocked5422 ok I thought so. The only time my condenser works is if my pressure valve vents a ton of steam at once into the condenser and for some reason then it will put water back in. But otherwise it just sits there and happily builds up water. Glad to see I'm not the only one with this issue. People on discord dont really seem to care

@@thorgeirnable Use a water storage tank to fill the boiler and use the water from the condenser to put back into the storage tank. The boiler does not use as much water any more, so it takes less water to make a lot of steam.

Watch the steam train build

you unload the coal out of it by hand

If you use a valve to cut the air supply to the firebox it will slowly cool down. Basically starve it of oxygen like any other fire

pretty sure they do

Just make a microcontroller that has boiler pressure to a greater than gate. If the pressure is higher than 9 then the valve is turned on

@@Duke_GATO_1-1 Treshold gate low 0 high 5 and let that thing contorl the pumps which circulate water into the boiler. Never exploded. Just added a greater then 7 to release all steam in an an emergency. Also be carefull. Also i try to keep the temperature low, around 120-140°C if it goes above 200 the emergency system will trigger and shut it down.

To address this for future readers: Your pressure should really never be above 1. My boilers tend to run at .3 to .4. Currently, turbines seem to have a max throughput of 1.7L/s of steam. Take 1.7 (or whatever you can achieve or wish to) and multiply it by your number of turbines. With advanced tooltips on, look at your boiler, specifically "water in" and "steam out." Your target for both of those is the max throughput value you calculated. If "water in" is greater than "steam out", feedwater is trapped in the boiler because you're making more steam than you can use. Look at "steam" at the top of the tooltip to see it accumulating. As it's pointless to do this, it's also pointless to run your boiler under any real pressure. To address this, decrease the temperature (or decrease the flow) of coolant into the boiler. All my reactors work flawlessly in this regard and have no need for pressure relief valves. As far as controlling the temperature of the boiler, I use a pid and a variable valve. This works very well and allows me to precisely set the temperature necessary to achieve desired output.

try a gearbox pointing away from the proprellor set to 3:1

cut air

Isn't steam just naturally slow, I haven't checked the update but I think it would be slow, maybe add more boilers?

@@prestonkeightley4700 me and my friends have add a lot more stuff and there still slow and ship from the early 1900s where able to go above 20 kn

You can still use gearboxes to increase RPM or get more torque

@@masterenos thx ill try and see if that works

Yes you can,

Unless you add more exhaust ports for some reason. I made a steam locomotive, and put 9 fluid ports I. The smoke stack, and the exhaust comes clean, which was disappointing for me.

@Railfan 765 yeah

To answer your questions. In theory, you shouldn't lose water if it's not vented Fresh water can be selected in the menu of a fluid spawner In the real world, ships can use fresh water or salt/sea water cooling. You can use salt/sea water cooling in stormworks, but it creates scaling in the engines as it's direct from the ocean (as in real life). Or you can use a closed loop fresh water system with heat exchangers. However direct seawater cooling provides better cooling, in my experience (in game)

You can use any liquid cooler.

Yes!

Turn the fire box off

People who want trucks will get trucks lol, its not like ya gotta pick. Go build a kickass steam land crawler.

Use a on off valve to close the air to the firebox