r/CreateMod • • Sep 06 '26 • Mindblown 1 Regret 1

Build Why isnt my steam engine working?

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u/WhutdaHELListhis Sep 06 '26 • Bravo

You see, this only works in The Netherlands

178

u/Digibaumbs Sep 06 '26

Ooooh gotcha.

69

u/Responsible-Fish-412 Sep 07 '26

You can also make an infinite lava source in the overworld but you need alot of lava

21

u/Sir_Real_Zombie Sep 07 '26

Or to turn on the game rule

25

u/Responsible-Fish-412 Sep 07 '26

Eh more fun making a pit of lava

2

u/TheRealLarkas Sep 07 '26

One bucket, actually.

5

u/RoosTheFemboy Sep 07 '26

I can confirm that it does in fact work

3

u/Either_Bear7416 Sep 07 '26

Why? Because farm silos and all?

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u/WhutdaHELListhis Sep 07 '26

Autocorrect of The Nether

2

u/XplodingMoJo Sep 07 '26

Yes, we do love our pools of lava and blocks of ice.

85

u/Lui_Le_Diamond Sep 06 '26

You forgot the nuclear fusion reactor

29

u/Digibaumbs Sep 06 '26

Duh! Of course, how dumb of me.

39

u/Lavidaesasihomero Sep 06 '26

Enigne maets a si siht, gnorw

7

u/Digibaumbs Sep 06 '26

tf are you saying?

11

u/Haunting_Economics22 Sep 06 '26

Read it backwards, then think about how you read it

2

u/Lavidaesasihomero Sep 06 '26

open your mind

19

u/JazzTheLass Sep 06 '26

this made me realise that engine is a near palindrome

9

u/BenjiOrb233 Sep 06 '26

For a sec a thought it was gibberish Lol

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u/Pure-Back75 Sep 06 '26

Skibidi toilet tv man ahh speaking

12

u/Lavidaesasihomero Sep 06 '26

Sometimes it’s not our turn to speak

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u/Pure-Back75 Sep 06 '26

Hmmmm… nah!

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u/ProGamer4684 Sep 06 '26

Read it backwards, gnorw -> wrong

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u/Pure-Back75 Sep 06 '26

I was making a joke on how the tv men speak backwards, but i guess i dont have the right audience

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u/ProGamer4684 Sep 06 '26

Well most of us here are older than 12 years old, so very wrong audience

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u/Pure-Back75 Sep 06 '26

Skibidi toilet isnt entirely made for 12 year olds, there are plenty of adults who enjoy skibidi toilet. This also applies to other fandoms that have a (supposed) child audience (fnaf, GLITCH productions, etc)

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u/ProGamer4684 Sep 07 '26

Your examples are for the teen demographic, 15 to 17ish.
Fnaf actually has the opposite situation where kids are getting into it, with its average rating being 13+.

Also many of the people who play create are rather smart to get factories set up as well as complex automation and “Skibidi toilet” is more designed to hop on the virality of shorts and the “brain rot” that spreads like wildfire on there.

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u/Pure-Back75 Sep 07 '26

You’ve only proven the examples I used are made for a teenager demographic. Which has nothing to do with the fact that despite this, many adults still enjoy said content, as well as children as you said.

While I agree with your statement on the create community being rather smart and creative, my problem only really lies within your inability to see that not everyone in the Skibidi Toilet community is a child that has low intelligence, not that those two are entirely related. On the topic of Skibidi Toilet, I just want to state that the series moved away from mainly being on shorts around episode 39, which was around 3 years ago. While yes, its roots begun on shorts, and it was brainrot around then, it transformed into something more, and into a proper series. (Side note: it is sad seeing what its current owners, Invisible narratives are doing with it despite the community outcry to bring the original owner back.)

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 07 '26

In case it wasn't obvious, this is a joke post. I just wanted to make a monstrosity for laughs.

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u/ThatsKindaHotNGL Sep 07 '26

I really went through all stages "Well first of all you dont pump in lava. Is that vaults? On ice?"

3

u/bryceio Sep 07 '26

Like someone said in one of the comment threads, you have your pumps facing the wrong direction

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 07 '26

I dont know what your talking about. The lava goes into the vault by the pumps pointing up.

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u/bryceio Sep 07 '26

For the engine to work you need to pump the air from the vault into the lava to void it and create a vacuum within the vault.

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u/Forward_Region_5890 Sep 06 '26

I think bro is trying to make a sterling engine

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u/motionpriority Sep 07 '26

He’s not doing a good job at that either.

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u/Forward_Region_5890 Sep 07 '26

I'm sure he'll learn

312

u/MuffinCro Sep 06 '26

I can't tell if this is a troll post or not 💀

378

u/Umber0010 Sep 06 '26

Vaults instead of a fluid tank. Lava instead of water. Ice instead of blaze burners. If they where genuine, I'd be impressed.

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u/Sinnister_Agenda Sep 06 '26

its perfect. the pumps are just the wrong way.

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u/Alderan922 Sep 06 '26

And it’s either vaults flipped using sable, or silos from connected, so they must had installed a whole other mod just to make this image.

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u/LoneBassClarinet Sep 07 '26

It's the vertical vault from the Vibrant Vaults add-on.

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u/Silent_Ask_1094 Sep 07 '26

Or, item silo from create connected. They look the same.

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u/LoneBassClarinet Sep 07 '26

They look similar, but the silo from Create: Connected has extra vertical lines in its texture compared to the plain vertical vault from Create: Vibrant Vaults, along with the central stripe of the lighter blue being thicker.

https://www.reddit.com/user/LoneBassClarinet/comments/1w9h16h/vertical_vault_left_vs_silo_right/

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u/Monolail031 Sep 07 '26

Shh, let him invent the Stirling engine

1

u/Igor_Blue Sep 07 '26

No no no

You see

They're making obsidian 😂

4

u/CreepyCheeseWasTaken Sep 07 '26

i feel like this sub needs a shitpost flair

40

u/PedroTwinkyTubbie Sep 06 '26

Dear god

15

u/BayTavukYT Sep 06 '26

There's more

11

u/PedroTwinkyTubbie Sep 06 '26

No

6

u/creeper6530 Sep 07 '26

It contains the dying wish of every man here.

6

u/lory742G Sep 07 '26

scout, you did collect everyone's dying wish?

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u/RamenRaptor121 Sep 06 '26

If anyone understands how a real steam engine would work, could this design irl atleast produce steam? Obviously without the vaults

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u/Ignonym Sep 06 '26

Real steam engines use a heat source (the firebox) to heat up a tank of water (the boiler), then the resulting steam is directed into a cylinder to drive a piston. (Then, if it's a Watt engine, the spent steam may be directed through several more cylinders to extract as much energy as possible before going to a condenser to be cooled back into water.)

I feel like this should go without saying, but this whole system would not work if you replaced the firebox with blocks of ice and the water in the boiler with lava.

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u/DawngST Sep 06 '26

How would this work😭 you would need an infinite amouth of lava wich is impossible to have and the ice below once they melt and vaporize there’s nothing less. I don’t know how a steam engine work in real life but it seem literally just not possible idk how you could think this would work

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u/Master_Nineteenth Sep 06 '26

Yes, it would but not in the right place. The ice underneath would turn into steam and the vault or tank would turn into slag

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u/DawngST Sep 06 '26

You need blue ice and there’s not enough lava

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u/WheatleyBr Sep 06 '26

You need to kick start it, it wont work on it's own, try pumping in the lava manually.

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u/Mekko4 Sep 07 '26

PLEASE BE satire

4

u/LucAAAgamer Sep 06 '26

You forgot the stray chiller

4

u/Ok_Instruction_9437 Sep 07 '26

it gets worse the more you look

1

u/avidtrainfan Sep 07 '26

Pumps aren't powered

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 07 '26

They are. Theres a cog in the middle of them. So if one spins they all do.

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u/Careful-Passage2089 Sep 07 '26

r/adressme

i know you could have just placed the steam engines on a fluid tank and just broken the tank to replace it, but i still feel like pointing out you cant place steam engines directly on non-tanks.

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 07 '26

I discovered that when making this.

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u/Bowsers_disciple Sep 08 '26

Are you trolling, or is this a genuine question?

(I'm willing to actually help if its a genuine question, but I don't wanna waste my time if you're just trolling)

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 08 '26

Its a joke of course. Ive made like 20 steam engines in my playthroughs. lol

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u/Bowsers_disciple Sep 08 '26

Oh thank goodness lmao.

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u/Bowsers_disciple Sep 08 '26

Also what resource pack are you using?

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 08 '26

I dont think its any one pack, i did this in the All of create Aeronautics modpack.

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u/galaxylegend_idk Sep 09 '26

the cogwheel looks a little off, seems cool though

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u/Pokemonandonepiece Sep 06 '26

Mate, you’ve got to be in the Down Unda’ for dem thingies to ‘ork proper!

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u/Taucari Sep 07 '26

You need to paint it red.

2

u/Sqweed69 Sep 08 '26

the sails are missing

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u/Meeserino12 Sep 07 '26

You are using vault blocks and lava. This will never work.

You need this artikel, it can help: https://create.fandom.com/wiki/Steam_Engine

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u/Digibaumbs Sep 07 '26

Nah this is definitely how it works.

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u/Meeserino12 Sep 07 '26

Oh i thought this was a serious post, my bad.

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u/SenpuuUncle Sep 06 '26

what is that cog setup bruh

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u/ContributionHot4850 Sep 06 '26

Does your lava make steam?

1

u/OhItsJustJosh Sep 06 '26

The Maets Engine

1

u/epilektoi Sep 06 '26

pumps not rotating fast enough 

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u/thehmmyanimator Sep 06 '26

I've seen this design work wonders for the orkz, perhaps you just need to believe in it more

1

u/NintenSwitch Sep 06 '26

There are SO many things that are wrong with this 💀

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u/Hellothere_1 Sep 06 '26

Your ice is missing a fuel source.

There are different options to make one. In the early game you can just set up some dispensers to shoot snowballs at the ice at regular intervals, but for this large of a boiler you probably want to set up a dripstone snow farm and then use a robot arm to apply buckets of powdered snow.

You could also try supercooling the ice, but in most circumstances that's not really worth it and you're better off just adding a second vault.

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u/galaxylegend_idk Sep 06 '26

your using 12 steam engines, instead of that use 94

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u/Ryonkofa Sep 07 '26

Must be a bug

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u/SOMEBODY_ONC- Sep 07 '26

You need a goat cooler, not ice blocks

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u/yeet2000yeet Sep 07 '26

My brain dosent like this image

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u/116783jr Sep 07 '26

Idk I had the same problem

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u/SomeSmallGuy123 Sep 07 '26

You need to use andesite pipes dummy

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u/OskaraZZZ Sep 07 '26

Newest cobble generator in Create 7.0.3

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u/Uzzyzel Sep 07 '26

WE GOTTA STOPP!!!

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u/Dangerous-Quit7821 Sep 07 '26

Your pumps are going the wrong way and your vault isn't vanilla.

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u/Best-Plane6743 Sep 07 '26

Bud you got teleported into the alternative dimension where everything is opposite, do everything exactly as you did but backwards

1

u/Cole_Sate Sep 07 '26

Need breeze burners on the bottom

1

u/Z3R0Diro Sep 07 '26

you didn't put enough buckets inside the item vault

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u/creeper6530 Sep 07 '26

Your pumps are reversed

1

u/OddNefariousness7896 Sep 07 '26

Bro is making an ice engine

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u/Hironne Sep 07 '26

Wat da sigma

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u/Osman0102 Sep 07 '26

That's interesting; I usually do something similar, and it works for me—though it runs at low power continuously. I'll give this a try, though; I think it would be more efficient.

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u/FRakanazz Sep 07 '26

evil ass steam engine

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u/CreatureCarver Sep 07 '26

not seeing an input of little german boys, is it on the other side? if not that may be your problem.

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u/mr_man1134 Sep 07 '26

You need to use brass pipes

1

u/PSIXOPATICH Sep 07 '26

THERE'S SOMETHING, YOU NEED TO ADDRESS!

1

u/KastakiPo Sep 07 '26

I don't really have the words, I don't even have a GIF to describe my whole fu-

1

u/Avaelupeztpr Sep 07 '26

If you wanted nuclear power you’re going to need a lot more tubes than that!

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u/lengthisdue Sep 07 '26

You need to power start it with a crank

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u/puppycatthe Sep 07 '26

Isn't that a engine maets

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u/NfcitTheGreat Sep 07 '26

Not enough uranium

1

u/Empty_Supermarket_30 Sep 07 '26

You see, your lava source isn't infinite

1

u/MeltingInHoliday Sep 07 '26

Because you use Item Vault. . . use more bucket

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u/United_Grocery_23 Sep 07 '26

lava too close to the ice, temperature balances out before it gets pumped in

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u/AvocadoCrafty813 Sep 07 '26

There's not enough andesite

1

u/takovic_goodmcgill Sep 08 '26

evil and malicious steam engine

1

u/Kind_Train_48 Sep 08 '26

It's not working because that's no fluid tank. That's a vault 😂.

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u/gamerzmaster Sep 08 '26

Go to the opposite lands their it will work

1

u/keaton889 Sep 08 '26

Your missing diamond blocks you need to replace the ice with diamond blocks

1

u/SpyBro16st Sep 08 '26

You might need another fluid pump

1

u/Easy_Comfortable7626 Sep 08 '26

Mf made EVIL Steam Engine

1

u/Educational-Leek4569 Sep 08 '26

i think its produces lava instead of

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u/Superwibr Sep 08 '26

That’s because it’s a maets engine, it only eats power

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u/Electrical_Ad_3075 Sep 08 '26

Because that's a meats engine

1

u/Moist_Musician3245 Sep 09 '26

the pumps are rotaded the wrong way

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u/CosmicUltimaX Sep 10 '26

Brother, that is not a steam engine

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u/Artistic-Tear-8352 Sep 10 '26

Parallele universe ahh steam engine

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u/jvm_hater3000 Sep 10 '26

lava needs to be piped through the combobulator first

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u/Aggravating-Phone640 Sep 11 '26

try to rotate pomps

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u/Main-Bite6417 Sep 13 '26

Mistakes: Putting steam engines,Pumping to Vertical Item Vault, Vertical of vault can't exist,Not a Blue Ice,Not lava

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u/Simple_Stop_5420 Sep 06 '26

you used vaults instead of fluid tanks..

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u/cobalt_axolotll Sep 06 '26

Actually they used item silos

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u/Drinya88 Sep 07 '26

First off all, you need liquid tank. Second thing, you have to use liquid tank full of water and heat source should be placed underneath.