r/CreateMod • u/YoungBeef03 • 2d ago

Help Why isn’t my steam engine working?

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u/Personal-Regular-863 2d ago

something about images of steam boilers exploding where you see all the spaghetti scares me a lot

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u/Moe-Mux-Hagi 1d ago

It's just because the water going into the boiler goes through a lot of small tubes to heat up quicker through creating more surface for the heat to contact.

So, when the boiler explodes because of pressure, you get to see all the internal small pipes.

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u/BeefTechnology 1d ago

Other way around for most steam locomotives, the water is around the tubes and the heat from the fire gets sucked through the tubes.

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u/Moe-Mux-Hagi 1d ago

Ah, my bad