You didn't make any mistakes that actually mattered for the purpose of the video but you did make some. Firstly only simple atmospheric engines use atmospheric pressure to push the piston down, all engines since James Watt use dual acting pistons where a timing valve lets steam enter the other side of the piston once the steam has finished expanding. You actually showed a picture of one such configuration. This kind of engine is a lot more efficient and allows you to mount the piston in any orientation you wish to, usually you'll also have multiple pistons to get as much energy out of the steam as possible. Secondly the properties of materials available to use doesn't really matter. Dwemer metal likely isn't any stronger than any modern alloy anyways, it is just stronger than other metals in TES but like of course an industrialized society can produce better metals than a medieval one. The industrial revolution was in large parts driven by advancements in metallurgy that let us produce better metals. The limits of steam engines are just inherent to their design, it's not a result of us lacking appropiate materials. Steam engines are basically only good when they're huge, that's why we still use them in power plants in the form of steam turbines. They are able to develop tremendous ammounts of power but also weigh a lot and so suck for applications where you need engines that deliver more power relative to their weight. That's why we largely switched to internal combustion and electricity for anything that needs to move. A lot of this comes down to the fact that steam engines need to use a lot of water and that is heavy. Basically steam engines would absolutely suck for this kind of application because they're large and heavy and not particularly weight efficient as they get smaller. However I can imagine one possible way in which steam could be used. It's basically a system similar to the early steam powered torpedoes where you just have a tank filled with high pressure steam that is slowly let out to drive a simple engine while the movement is controlled by a sort of clockwork computer. This would make sense for the dwemer automata since it means they don't need to carry a bunch of heavy water around nor do they need their own boiler. Arguably there's also lore backing for this since when Dwemer Centurions leave their docking stations steam is spewed out by the joints, indicating that it was being filled up with steam. In this case the soul gem might actually serve more like a computer or solely exists to power the mechanical computer of the automata like a button battery and that's why it can easily last for millenia. It also fits with all other observed facts like the automata failing when getting too far away from cities since that's simply them running out of steam.

Oh yeah I also forgot to mention this but irl a similar system was used in the so called "Fireless engines". They are just small steam locomotives that don't produce their own steam but rather refill from a central boiler. They were commonly used in factories that already had a large boiler of their own especially for transporting flammable goods like sugar or dangerous chemicals. There were also systems similar to the ones found in Dwemer ruins where a huge complex is fed power centrally. Though they weren't based on steam but rather compressed air. London had one such system where central compressed air stations supplied compressed air to workshops and factories in something very similar to the modern electrical grid.

You did not make many mistakes other than the ones already listed, but you did not show the possible gear chains or the leg functions, such as how they bend. If you look at the dwemeri spider animunculi in ESO, they have a Cresent moon like shape that protrudes through the leg. That used with the hinge would create a knee function, but the difficulty would be separating the left-right function that moves it forward and there needs to be a 'hip' function that is separate from every thing else. The lack of gears and cogs in your video is disturbing as the clockwork technology of the Clockwork City was based off dwemer tech and by the gears does anyone think Lord Seht just decided to add more gears for no reason!? Please make a more informed perception tabulated review on these subjects, such as a (gulp) comparison of all different ways to operate a dwemeri or clockwardian automaton.

That's a good point that they thematically serve as a counterpoint to the (generally) medieval fantasy vibes, and it's like they achieved the equivalent to photosynthesis in their synthetic universe, which kinda gives me Thief 2 vibes now that I think about it lol there it was "mechanists" and "woodsie folk" but morrowind and thief2 are my favorite pc games of all time lol

Droidekas

You are thinking of the the Destoryer droids, aka Droidekas. They were created by a race of aliens called the Colicoids, designed in the image of their creators.

@@ximthedespot4673 I didn't know that! Cool info dude

​@@lordofthebored3660 I didn't think that The Dwarven were that intelligent to create this robots.

​@@izactheangelyou mean knowledgeable or technologically advanced, if they were as advanced as they are in elder scrolls and placed in the real world during the late medieval period they would've advanced far beyond what we have now and they would've most likely erased humanity.

This is the best comment I have ever read.

Oh hell nah every Skyrim character has turbo cancer now 😭

Oh damn you are right. A steam turbine would be easier. I didn’t even consider them since in my lizard brain steam turbines are exclusively for generating energy using steam. But of course the motion can be used for all kinds of purposes, not only a generator 🤦‍♂️ Ill add it to the top comment and description when I am on my pc!

You're a machine expert?

​@@ImperialKnowledge i didn't think that The Dwarven were that intelligent to create these robots.

Grand scheme of things, mortal souls are sent to the soul cairn which are exchanged later on through building large armies or through uses of soul gems to recharge weapons or staves Daedric souls are supposedly sent to aetherius and their animus is there consumed when needed as mortal souls are, just from a different plane Interestingly enough, supposedly argonian souls are basically.... 'retrieved' back to the Hist trees, supposedly saying that you can never trap an argonian soul

All in all, when you capture a soul and use a soul on an item, it it's essentially banished from all existence, much like how reincarnation is denied

Thank you!!

I personally think the dwarven pets and creations are fan pleasing and kinda bend the rules. You could say they have their own dynamo core maybe? Like centurions?. But I honestly don't really know. Although that the morrowind automatons don't have soul gems is a bit of an oversight as the developers/writers apparently did intend a connection to souls.

​@@ImperialKnowledge I view the morrowind automatons not having soul gems because of the factor that they are near one of the largest and first soul gems, the heart of LKHAN (Lorkhan) The Dwemer had been harvesting power from it for years before the dunmeri took control and the tribunal was formed and the lava from Red mountain that is inside Red Mountain could be viewed as Lorkhans blood, thus helping convert water to steam and causing this essence of the god of mortality to power the automatons without the use of a soul gem, since this is also exclusive to vvardenfall, so it only makes sense that the automatons will need soul gems away from the Heart of Lorkhan.

or maybe dwemer societies in different regions adapt their tech differently

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Magically charged clouds or something

Another theory i may add as to how they recharge the soul gems powering the machines, is that all dwemer automatins have wjat is essentially a "soul trap" enchantment. And any creature they kill, beast, or man, or other, that soul gets absorbed by the soul gem within the automaton. This in line with the theory of bound lesser souls, could explain why they have seemingly infinite charge.

Mechonis field theme, xenoblade!

If you have the enhanced blood textures mod by dDefinder I believe they do bleed it’s just black oil splattered everywhere

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