Steam
alaindustrial:steam
Summary
Steam is the working fluid of the reactor room: the reactor makes it, the steam nozzle vents it. It is the one mod fluid with no world form: there are no steam pools, no steam block, and you cannot scoop it into a bucket. It exists only inside tanks and pipes — wherever the room has pushed it.
That gives it its one rule of handling: steam cannot be set aside outside the network. Oil, diesel and fuel oil can be poured on the ground and picked up later; steam is either in a tank or gone.
Mini-example: put a portable tank against the room and run the steam along a pipe — a Vacuum Capsule can pull it out of the tank as well, but there is nothing that will pour it back into the world.
Steam travels only along steam pipes — the ordinary and the reinforced one. Fluid pipes do not accept it and do not connect to steam pipes, so water and steam lines never mix, even when laid right next to each other.
Block Properties
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| World form | none — there is no steam block |
| Physics | none: steam does not flow, does not drown, does not burn |
| Bucket | none |
| Capsule | can be filled from a tank, cannot be emptied into the world |
| Storage and carrying | tank, steam pipe, capsule |
| Tag | c:steam |
Progression
- Arrives together with the reactor room — before it there is no steam in the game and nowhere to get any.
- Steam has no recipe and cannot have one: it is not an item, it is the contents of a tank.
- No machine in the mod other than the room accepts steam today — the fluid machines run on oil and its fractions.
Related
- Reactor Controller — the brain of the room that makes the steam.
- Reactor Port — where fluids enter and leave the room.
- Steam Pipe — the only pipe that carries steam.
- Oil — the opposite case: a fluid that does have a world form.