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I think you need to gather the supplies to make each one again but do it 5000 times each to account for RNG in world generation, this should only take several years

the unit used is actually micro seconds per tick, so i assume "to calculate everything with this block you need x micro seconds per tick" normally minecraft wants to run at 20 ticks per second, this means that as long as your total "lag" isn't above 50 000μs/t you shouldn't experience any lag, of course this avoids how much it takes for minecraft to do its normal stuff

A problem with that perspective is: - you play the first few hours with water wheels and then you have every resource to build a steam engine everywhere you need it. - a windmill is not for efficiency but for looks. Also you can pluck it directly onto a crop/ wood farm to make it move without lost space. - at later stages you will have infinite lava in the offer world and in addition you have to calculate lag impact per SU, not per space. This bucket refiller has nearly no impact per SU. You need one of them (and not at 256 rpm) for a large steam engine (100k+ SU). Calculate the lag for 200+ large water wheels. In addition to that, whatever you do with the 100k SU will likely generate MUCH more lag than this steam engine setup, so that doesn't really matter that much. These have just different use cases. It's like saying, "which car is better, a semi truck, a sports car or a small car like a smart/ mini etc.?" - as it is most often, it depends. Nothing against the video though, just my rant plus engagement for the algorithm.

I haven't personally done it but the windmill can be made part of the decor. Make the wool colored and look like a globe or other statue then you can "hide" it as part of a decorative park/feature. That said, totally agree with you!

Arcane Engineering configuring windmills to work with a single sail was honestly pretty useful for small fan setups. They only need minimal rotation to cook/wash stuff anyway, so an independent 2-block solution (especially in situations where you definitely wouldn't want flowing water around) came in handy many times.

I always use infinite lava sources to power my boilers, and use them for all my stress needs. I got tired of charcoal farms dying when they were out of random tick range. And I had problems with water wheels causing a lot of client side lag because of all the moving geometry. I use quarries to dig giant shafts down to bedrock and fill the gaps in the walls with cobble, then I use hose pulleys to fill the pit with lava pumped from my previous infinite lava source. Now I have power wherever I need it.

I have always loved Water Wheels and Windmills, though windmills are just as much for aesthetics. That said, being able to have wheels buried in an underground pit and running a line to what I need powered is always a good thing.

If you struggle with getting blaze burners, you can actually just right click a blaze spawner with the empty burner and get one so you can do it in peaceful. It doesn't use the spawner up either.

You can drop the "min" even lower on the steam (Unless the newest version changed it), you can put it above a campfire, or lava. You can completely skip the blaze at stage 1.

6:35 That windmill design could absolutely be compacted down to half the size or even less by just filling out the 3x3. And since the blocks become entities once the windmill is spinning, you can place new blocks in there, meaning it doesn't take up any space.

If only windmills were good.... Personally, I would absolutely love if they had actual wind mechanics - for instance, upwards facing windmills will get more stress units if above heat sources. Face a fan towards a windmill and it will make the windmill spin faster - without increasing the SU. This would also give a use for fans with high RPM, since currently the only use is range.. which doesn't matter if you get advanced enough tech.

Bro got sponsored by a collage. These replies are rather strange, perhaps they should study in a collage.

Shoutout to youtubers who make sponsors a different chapter so you can skip them. You guys rock

The thing about windmills taking up vertical space is that you can fit more in a single chunk, which is good if you have limited simulation distance. Giving them an F feels a little harsh, but to each their own. 🙂

I agree that windmills are "meh" most of the time, with two exceptions... when I am making spinning tree, kelp, or crop farms OR need a small bit of power for something in the nether (where you can't have water), I do like windmills. As for Tree/Crop/Kelp farms, the nice thing about using a windmill is that, if you use a windmill bearing instead of a mechanical bearing, the arm that you attach all your mechanical saws, harvesters, storage blocks, and portable interfaces to can simply be made of wool and then the arm itself IS the sail. Additionally, the farm then generates the items AND a bit of power to run things like belts, sorting-system, or simple resource processing (such as a wheat farm that auto-processes the wheat into bread or sweet rolls right away). Essentially making a windmill option for a farm be the most space efficient since it literally takes up ZERO additional blocks beyond what the contraption would normally require. As for building in the nether, you could power the water wheels with lava instead of water, but that can be dangerous if you have firetick enabled and are building out of any flammable materials or are playing in hardcore where you are probably trying to mitigate risk of getting dead.

Windmills are way more aesthetic

Well, considering many people play with a modpack, I think a mention would be in place that you do not need to power the steam engines with the robotic arm. Unless you're playing the "vanilla" Create. There are addons in place that allow you to power the blaze burners with piped in liquid fuel, which I believe has much less impact on tps. I know this video aims to compare the power sources in a context of the Create mod, just thought this would be worth mentioning given how people are likely playing modpacks rather than a single mod :)

you can power steam engines with campfires, you can pump water to a single one with a waterwheel and use that one engine to pump other 16 (or 32 i forgor) engines that also use campfires, and you got a ton of free SU

The numbers you see are microseconds per tick needed to calculate that block. Meaning the processor has to do that amount of microseconds of calculations to update a tick of that block. Generally speaking the values you see are still very low (hence green) but they add up.

I definitely think that steam engines could be bumped a bit higher on lag. Like realistically speaking one doesn’t *need* to make a laggy cauldron lava farm, and even if you did you could maaaayyyybe make an infinite lava source but that bumps the space efficiency way way down lol. You could use charcoal from an already nearby wood factory, you could use maybe autocrafting all those spare sticks into ladders to fetch you some extra burn time from just an ordinary tree farm, heck you could even use eggs (but that’s probably way laggier tbh lmao). Either way for us with potatoes I’m glad you’ve done all this testing in one video. Now I know, water wheels are the best wheels

I like Windmills the most. You can make large moving art pieces that power your stuff without anything extra. You set it up and its done. Only limitation I have found is lag if you put too many too close together.

This feels like factorio, where solar panels and accumulators are the best UPS-wise, and nuclear reactors are bad in the long run for UPS.

Windmills are fun to have in builds. Might not be the best for stress generation, but you can make some really nice looking windmills

one passive generated boiler, no blaze burners needed, is only 4 copper tanks, one steam engine, and a campfire to provide 2048 su, so you could get a fairly compact setup with, say... row of 4x passive steam boiler columns, then a row row of space / water transport, and then another row of 4x passive, and get that 16384 SU while taking up an absurdly small amount of space, it would just be more expensive in some ways, and then you could use the components later on when you DO get the blaze burners

The lag issue of lvl.9 steam engines can be solved by the stuffs addon mod that lets you feed lava directly into blaze burners, no funnels/arms needed

i believe theres a mod thatll help mitigate some of the lava production lag for the boilers. i cant remember what its called, but it basically adds straws that you can give to the blazes that let you pipe lava directly into them, so you dont need the arms and buckets, or a blaze cake farm

I like how no1 is talking abt bro getting sponsored by a collage

as space is typically at a premium, I agree with the idea that the water wheel is the meta, my early game setup is currently fully large water wheel powered. currently have an array generating 20k SU and its powering a pair of elevators and my neighbors small infinite iron machine. its simple to set up, easy to scale without needing to add shafts or gears to merge outputs. when I need more SU I just expand the power cave and extend the waterwheel basin

One thing to consider is the passive steam engine. Batsys has a design that fit into a pretty small space and still have 16k stress

Hi Dejojo!! i love your arcane engineering sseries and am currently watching it! glad to be here early!

Small water wheels are very power dense. In a 15x15x3 area, with small waterwheels, 14,080 SU, near zero us/t. 6x6x3 x4 unused spaces within that area. 1 water source block, 56 small water wheels, 56 gearboxes, 104 filler blocks (glass?). Looks like a giant plus symbol laying on the ground. can be repeated vertically with direct contact power is coupled automatically. Raw cost: 196 andesite, 22 iron/zinc, 392 logs, 104 sand.

Waterwheels go at 8 and 4 RPM, not 16 and 8. Not that it makes a big difference ^^ I'd add against windmills that that their speed is reliant on the number of sails you have, which makes them quite annoying to work with when you don't have max sails

actually crazy a college has sponsored stuff like this, keep it up

Using the "shared water source" trick with small water wheels would allow for 4 small water wheels in a 3x3 space with one source block. It would cost a bit more with the shafts, but you could effectively get to 16k with 8 layers of this setup. Thank you for this video, it honestly just made me realize a lot of powerful stuff. :D

Foxynotail video on lag for create was insane. I kept having problem with lavas in my steam engine so I just put a small tree farm on everyone to feed it charcoal

no way a minecraft youtuber is being sponsored by a university

Adding 1/4 blocks for water, since multiple water wheels can use the same source and you cant do more than 5 because it needs to flow, but 4 because its more tileable, the normal water wheels would be the most space-efficient. Normal water wheel: 1.25 blocks Large water wheels: 9.25 blocks Normal water wheel: 204.8 SU/block Large water wheel: 55.35 SU/block Now, let's compare these to steam engines: (assuming we're using an infinite lava source) Level 9 steam engines, 147,456 SU, take: 36(boiler), + 18(shafts and engines) + 9(blaze burners) + 1(water pump) + 1(water source blocks, assuming same 2x2 source used for 4 engines) + 1(mechanical arm) + 8(lava spout fill cycle) + 1(lava pump) +1(rope pulley) +4(fluid pupes) = 80 blocks, ignoring the space for the infinite lava source. Therefore: steam engines = 1,843.2 SU/block. So while they are Significantly more space efficient, around 9x as much as small water wheels, this requires a 10k block lava source. So untill you need ~2.36 million SU, small water wheels would be more space efficient. (And this isnt 2.304 million SU because you can't have a partial steam engine.)

12:55 The unit Observable is using is microsecond (µs) and 100µs (estimated total of lag) isn't that much, you would need about 500 steam engines (100µs-lag-generating sources) to start to cause damage to the server (1tick of lag per tick), of course that is only considering the amount of lag produced by the steam engine, realistically about 200, which is way more then you would ever realistically build imo. So Steam Engines might be less lag-efficient but I wouldn't rate Steam Engines a C tier (15:42), at most a B but most probably A (with 0-lag sources at S).

for someone who sounds all high and mighty, you could figure out that μs/t means microseconds per tick

Very new to create, but if I may offer a counter argument, technical space VS applied space. The wind mill loses for technical but might arguably win In application. The water wheel requires fairly rigid set up, and the configuration showed first could be hard to work around, while the wind mill can be be pointed anywhere. Follow up, water in any form requires some level of either containment or compensation in build plans, and it should be easier to send a wind mill straight upward than water. If the base is laid out in a vertical manner, with limited space, the windmill may actually beat the water wheel. If anyone disagrees feel free to let me know

I think each have their uses. For example, we have oak tree farms running off windmills, because they don't require that many SU and they just run constantly. I like water wheels also as a cheap and quick way to get *some* power to separate things. But then I have a Steam Engine to power the Alternators, 4 of which requiring 64k SU and that is just barely enough to power my current AE2 setup. We also have a separate Steam Engine for an infinite redstone farm, and two 8x radius Oak farms are just barely enough to power it constantly. We are looking into Blaze Cakes.

in fact, in newer version of minecraft, string is a duplicable resource, which make gathering wool less annoying (if you approve duplication)

Being sponsored by a University is really fucking cool. Congrats!!

The water wheel and large water wheel are not effectively the same. The SU stays the same when you change the speed. The water wheel produces 256 SU at 8 RPM, and the large water wheel produces 512 SU at 4 RPM. If you use gears, a rotational speed controller, etc. to double the speed of the large water wheel, it produces 512 SU at 8 RPM, double the SU of the regular water wheel. Components (mixers, drills, etc) use more SU at a higher speed, so yes, you effectively get more SU at a lower speed, but it doesn't change the stress capacity of the system, only the stress units required by the component

you could say this is revolutionary!

I had a playthrough with my bf and some of our friends where we were playing with a fair number of mods including lots of fun lil steam engine things, this was in a version with out the beeg boi steam engine though, but at the same time the small ones work really well... that being said, we also were running project E and other mods like that so a majority of the stress units I have generated has been through solar collectors attached to matter condensers endlessly fueling and feeding a blast furnace with items to smelt that then recycles said smelted items back into the loop with the blast furnace attached to a furnace powered engine. lol But even with that, I still have so many spots in my labrynth that is powered with the old medium sized water wheels. XD

Note! The steam engine is in fact easier than the water wheel for time efficiency! in newer (and perhaps many older) versions of create mod, the steam engine can be powered with 1 heat level (2048su) in a minimal engine with a CAMP FIRE. only one campfire is necassary and means the power source is almost cheaper than the water wheel itself in terms of resources. All new and most intermediate create mod players may view this as a godsend if you didn't know about it before, it's viable up until you can get a lava farm going which needs brass and blaze burners anyway. Hope somebody found this useful.

Since we're already playing with mods, may I recommend the Create: Liquid Fuel mod to somewhat deal with the lag issue with the steam engine, as it allows you to pump fuel directly into the blaze burners

Windmills are only bulky when they're static or if you care about aesthetics (in which case you probably want a big spinning structure in the middle of your base anyway), once they're spinning you can build right through them

Trying to lean Create maxes out my stress units. 😅 This video was actually very informative though and already has rebooting up my Minecraft world again. I will be back for more. 😈

wow that is very helpful for my create series on my channel i will tag you when the video comes out

I'll name the advantages of windmills. Let's start with the fact that you can glue various useful things to the structure, which allows you to harvest free of charge, as well as produce energy. Windmills will work even in the lower world (water wheels can also work from lava, but steam engines will need a supply of water), windmills are well suited for complex mobile things, such as a 3D printer (it's possible, I managed to do it and it really prints the diagram, but can't put mechanical belts. Few people know, but by placing the scheme in the deployer filter slot, it will print). You can also touch on internal combustion engines from Create TFMG and electric motors from Create Crafts Additions. Small ICEs are compact and fast, which saves a lot of space. Oil is required, but in reality, when processing it, one way or another you will get different products that need to be put somewhere, and in fact there is a lot of oil itself. A large engine is a serious source of energy, but takes up more space and is more complex overall. All ICEs operate in the nether world (pun intended). Electric motors essentially release stored energy rather than produce it, but can also be used to conveniently transfer power and are useful in the nether world. You can build a train that will change batteries at your base in hell, and you can also increase the load without any problems, but then the charge will disappear faster. Both of these options will look good on the worldshell from CSim (Create Aeronautics, Offroad Expansion, Liftoff and more), and now Create Interactive has appeared, so you can make yourself a base on a train, where there will be a rail factory

an easy potential way to solve the laggy steam engine problem is the Liquid Fuel addon. Allows you to pump the liquid lava directly in, eliminating the depot mechanical arm and the need to circulate the bucket.

Windmills look cool and they're easy to place. They can scale down to be smaller than most decent looking waterwheel setups when you account for water, containment, and decoration. Decent for exposed, low power mechanisms in awkward places, and the easiest way to build a rotating contraption. That's the only niche I think fits them.

For me the main use for windmills is if I need rotation in a contraption. Using a rotational bearing and hooking it to power takes energy from my supply. Building a windmill provides the rotation directly as my contraption can just be built directly on the windmill, and the windmill will still generate power even with the contraption attached.

So I've only played Create on a modpack where the owner of the pack would make some things needlessly more difficult to craft (including mechanical arms) and I also have no clue how mechanical arms actually work, so my solution was to put 32 3x3x3 steam engines (two stacks of 16) all in parallel and make a pretty goofy amount of SU through that. I called it the Torque Generator and iirc it had like 64k SU but idr. I never got crazy far into that world, but I was pretty happy with it and never even approached that limit.

Keep in mind that windmills can be the contraption itself: many sweeping arm contraptions can use a windmill bearing instead of a mechanical bearing, and not need a power source.

I remember another mod years ago, which also had water wheels (and other energy sources), power transmission via wires and many tools using that power, like ore diggers (each/some chunks had particular "ore veins" which could be extracted for some amount). Basically I built a few chunks of water wheels, and even though they couldnt provide enough power continuously, because of the server working 24/7 they outperformed any other players' manually maintained energy sources and the admin had to cap the number of ores per chunk not to be too OP xD Or how I auto-drained the nether lava lake to power something from Botania IIRC, lmao. Good times.

Lets say it like this. For me as an aesthetic builder, Windmills and Steam engines deserve S tier just bcuz of the looks, water wheels really have to sit somewhere in the mountains or a waterfall to look good

you can also use any other heat source such as fire or lava if you arent confident with getting a blaze, however it produces way less power

dunno if they removed this feature but smaller steam engines can be powered with a campfire, doesn't even cost any extra fuel beyond that, the blaze burner is just if you want more power in exchange for having to keep it fueled

actually windmills are mechanical bearings that dont need you to make a rotation source for the millionth time, you can make both cactus and kelp farms with it, and even make wheat farms if you want to

I also think that windmills are kind of expensive early game for their andesite cost. For the 16000 su, you need a whole stack of andesite where as water wheels, you only need 8 andesites. I'm just as surprised. 8 andesite makes 32 shafts. Each shaft makes 1 water wheel, for a total of 32 water wheels. You just need to get chopping and get 16 wood per water wheel. Which comes out to be 8 stacks of wood or 2 stacks of logs. With an average tree size of 5 logs, you just need to cut down around 26 trees. Windmills still need sticks with 1 stick per sail, you need 2 stacks of sticks or 64 planks. I guess it really depends on whether you want to go mine for iron, or cut trees down.

As a very simple solution to the lag machine you attach to your steam engines, there is this thing in create called straws… you put them on your blaze burners so they can receive fluids as a power source and feed your lava i put directly into them with pipes, no fancy bucket setup required, no lag involved… straws are dirt cheap as well btw

Water wheels and steam engines are great, but cut windmills a little slack! With a good sheep farm, you can pump those things out just as easily as water wheels, they're great if you don't have a lot of space in one direction (building on an island or underground), they work in the nether (unlike water wheels) and they're just as scaleable as water wheels (If you need more, you just build another one). I think they're a perfect popup power source, and waay more versatile than it first may seem. I'd argue they're a little easier than Water Wheels to set up, once you have the resources, just because you don't have to deal with containing water, which is great if you just need to quickly setup a workshop or factory with minimal impact on your surroundings.

windmill bearings are what i used for my portable chunk miner design, since theyre able to be picked up by a minecart with the rest of everything

this also looks at create in a vacuum with no addons or other mods, the lag impact of the steam engine can be reduced drastically when you have other options for powering the blaze burners (especially when you take into account that you are generating some other resource that you are likely not just using for kinetic power).

I was in the middle of hammering out a steam engine plan in creative. I am now completely switching to water wheels because I could not care less about the space issue (hellooooooo superflat) and the steam engine's costs are difficult to manage in the modpack I'm playing. I've always thought they were relatively meh, but consider me converted. God I wish windmills were better. Such an opportunity for colorful fun, and yet.

i did not know that funny trick with the small water wheel to speed it up. thank you

Hey dude did you know you can make your steam power generation much more compact by replacing some of the tanks with blaze burners as long as the sections of the tank stay connected with at least one tank, you can literally put way more blaze burners in a 3*3 tank and this will allow you to max out the stress generation without using the advanced stuff for the burners

I believe that one of the criterias should have been aesthetically pleasing. Like whenever someone is trying to build a really nice looking world things that actually look nice inside

One thing that makes steam engines so powerful is the highest tier produces just ungodly amounts of SU and takes up so little space (by itself). The biggest issue with it is the need to refuel which means a fully functional blaze cake farm and feeding setup. Figuring out the numbers as you did makes total sense, but when you only need 1 power source for such huge factories steam engines for me will always be the best.

Just to add, Water wheels whlie can be glued to contraptions, the source water block is not movable. So without the extra infrastructure for a full tier steam engine (e.g. a Tier one or two with just a blaze burner, tank(2x, one source/one steam), crank and shaft) then we have a fully movable source of rotational power that surprising works great on trains.

11:20 the seed RNG thing is so true, the closest fortress on my server is 1000 blocks out i added a silk touch spawner mod because I do not want to make that hike every single time I want to get more blaze burners or powder

dejojo you can cut the time for the steam even further if you make camp fires, and if need be just make more. Copper is easy to come by so the only real issue is the iron and gold, and even that is basically nothing.

I did not expect a literal college to sponsor a minecraft video at all. I’m both impressed and scared

problem with these tests is stress units is also depends on RPM a wheel turning at 16 with 256SU when slowed down to 8RPM with a speed controller will produce 512SU

As someone who has only played in versions without big water wheels or steam engines, windmill is the best. For every water wheel you need to craft them (annoying in large scale) get sould sand to maximize the speed and completely cover them with water, which is annoying and takes up so much space. The other option was a flywheel but having to make a farm to power something was very annoying. For windmills, they were basically free since you can find bearings in structures (create above and beyond) and wool is easy to get (doesnt take very long since so many sheep are next to my base) and you only need 2 stacks for each. Much more convenient than the other options. I used 5 of them to power my beggining factory. Im not sure about late game though.

you can automate waterwheel production AND placement. they can be placed in a straight line. ill let you think about what you can do with these 2 tiny details.

You don't need buckets for blaze burners. If you also have Create: Crafts and Additions (which most people do) you can give burners straws, allowing you to pump lava directly into them, allowing you to skip the entire bucket process

with your testing, i recommend getting everything into the same speed, then measuring the SU, as 16k Su at 32rpm is 4x better than 16k Su at 8rpm

I feel like I have to disagree with the accessibility rating for steam engines. They are on the level of windmills, if not below them, because for them to be self sufficient, you need a whole other machine set up. Whether you are using a tree farm that makes charcoal, or a lava farm supplying buckets, you have to make a whole station to power your power generator, which will cost space, time, and resources to make. With windmills, you just farm some sheep, get the wool, place the blocks. With waterwheels you make an infinite water source and pour it over the wheels. Much more straightforward, and much less thought goes into these two than figuring out the ideal way of feeding the machine its resources. That being said though the payoff is worth it for the giant amount of stress units it creates

The reason for the steam engine lag is the mechanical arms. I would recommend the Create: Liquid fuel mod that allows you to pump lava in directly into the blaze burner.

About water wheels and lag: for most servers, the lag impact actually barely mater for the feeding mechanism. Most of your farms will be causing 999 fold the amount of lag impact Meanwhile, water wheels are the devil in terms of another performance issue. Graphical rendering. Thankfully in the world of sodum and other performance mods this isn't as terrible as could be but go ahead, place 50 water wheels, power them and see what happens See how well your game will run when you *look* in it's direction, even with performance mods gahah You could put the water wheels in a remote place, but then you'd need either an electricity or ender SU transportation addons to take that power far away from player loaded chunks, and instead use another addon to load the chunks (or use nether portals) And y'know, loading a raw chunk far away probably causes more lag than the feeding mechanism Even better, this assumes you even have access to addons, because if you have any addons you can just make blaze burners accept liquids which completely gets rid of the performance issues Also the sails are more scalable and more efficient! If you fill the space right, you can store 8192su using 129 blocks (128 sails+bearring) 14 water wheels use up 126 blocks excluding the water. assuming that you need at least a single block of flowing water, so let's say you stack two water wheels on one another another to make a 3(2*3+1)*X ("3" is width of the water wheels, "2" is the number of water wheels per row, the second "3" is the height of a single water wheel and the "1" is the empty space you need between the wheels for the water to flow, while X is the number of rows you want. in that case we want 6 rows of 2 water wheels which is 3*7*6 which is ALSO 126 blocks, exactly! Alright so within 126 blocks of a windmill, which generates 8192su You can fit 6*2 aka 12 large water wheels. That only gives you 6144su Not only are sails not as bad as you mention them to be, they're actually *better* than water wheels! How silly is that :P I don't blame people for being wrong but i think this video needs a proper follow up/correction in the comments

If the stuff to feed a steam engine are laggy, then I guess just the entirety of create is laggy. Good thing I'm using AE2 for most of my stuff instead of create 😅 Also, surprisingly, on a 1700X server, Create doesn't seem to lag that much in itself. It's mostly client-side lag, but even it's not horrendous.

blocks that are part of a contraption don't have collision so you can place windmills inside of each other and have a pillar of max windmills going up to build limit with just one block between each windmill bearing

cant you just use a passive steam engine? so all it needs is a water input?

you can also pre-nether just power them via other heated blocks like campfires or magma blocks--not as good as a blaze burner, but you can build a little stack of 4/5 minimum size steam engines and power a starter base easy

6:40 technically it only takes up one two space as you can place blocks where moving contraption is -> overlapp multiple windmills this way

2:58 "This is the most efficient structure" Ahkhtually, placing the water source one block closer to the wall makes it possible to remove all supporting structures on top, since water wheels don't allow the water to flow sideways.

A nice windmill in the middle of a farm, powering all the farms, lloks just nice. But apart from that I go for water wheels in the beginning and steam in the mid to endgame.

The μs unit is a microsecond which is equal to one millionth (0.000001 or 10−6 or 1⁄1,000,000) of a second. There are 20 ticks in Minecraft so each shouldn't exceed 0.05s So there are 50000μs (Microseconds) in one Minecraft tick You would need at least 500 Steam Engines to fill that time. (not considering other stuff causing lag in a minecraft world) But even then the game will just be one tick behind the update cycle. The server lag gets significant at 13 ticks so you can build like 3500 Steam Engines before you even notice the lag

Fun fact: you can power minimum-tier steam engines with other heat sources. Magma blocks, campfires, actual fire, and unpowered blaze burners. Yes you heard me, the blaze burners will allow a "passive" steam engine to run without consuming fuel

Ah, a fellow Water Wheel enjoyer

When is your next playlist coming out?

As long as the windmill is spinning the blocks don't take up space. So you can have them overlapping as long as you never turn them off.

I once made what i can only described as a "Whater weel engine block", i put a row of 16 whater wheels on 3 diferent floors on a rectangle block filled with water (i built it in the coast for easy water access) and all i needed was one belt to connect all 3 floors and i got 16K SU, whater wheel is the best

i8 atually used the small to large water wheel trick for my super compact iron farm only requiring 4 blocks of space for the actually farm not including poweer or the lava and water

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