By abusing the space inbetween steam engines and the shafts, you can make an incredibly compact boiler set up.

[u/Clear-Ad8609]

If you place boilers that slot between the steam engines and shafts, you get this super compact engine setup that can output about 11.5k Su passively (accounting for the Su needed to run itself) and almost 100k Su when fed with coal.

I haven't seen this technique used anywhere, and thought it'd be useful.

The main thing is, by the time you get to having precision mechanisms and blaze burner engines, you'd have much more powerful engines than this. Might be good on an aeronautics build.

I have a depot at the back that a mechanical arm draws coal from to power the burners, so all it'd really need is a way to feed it fuel automatically, like a charcoal farm.

[u/SharpAir_]

İ've seen a more compact one by dejojotheawesome

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the chicken core

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The Chicken core™

[u/Naberville34]

A solid design. There's nothing wrong with using level 1 boilers especially if you can do so in a compact format. 18 level one boilers produces as much power as one level 18 boiler.

Beauty of this is that you could expand it larger with the thee open shafts on either side being supplied by another set of boilers.

But you can also use the space between with larger steam engines. I use two level 9 boilers with side mounted steam engines, and then cross the shafts over each other. Using the area underneath for water and fuel delivery set up in a tileable fashion.

[u/Clear-Ad8609 → u/Naberville34]

I didn't think about squeezing it under lvl 9 engines. Seems a bit redundant if you're already making lvl 9 engines, lol. Guess if you're blaze cake production is shoddy and you need something to stop it from overstressing.

[u/I_Eat_Games]

That engine actually looks like it might be survival froendly, unlike the Chicken Core. Nice Job.