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  1. Spawn Update:

    Added A Tank to the machine shop (which is now filled with oil)

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    Built a Steam boiler and two commercial steam engines to power the factory side of the machine shop. Steam boiler gets water from the Water Tank in the other room. (Will be expanding the steam boiler to a 2x2x2)

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    Outside view of Factory and Warehouse

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    This should put Spawn at Teir 3 Railcraft, and we should be qualified to be teir 5 Buildcraft (unless otherwise).

    Oil at spawn is open to the public and can taken with steel buckets. Our intentions are that once we are declared teir 5 Buildcraft to create a refinery near Spawns oil Rig in the desert.

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  2. Finally, I'm getting the Trade Booths set up around town as they should be, so the Carpenter trades coins for wood, the Mason trades for stone, etc. The centralized trade area in the Market will be for Players to set up booths, and I'm also putting a booth there to sell sulfur since TFC has a sulfur generation issue at present. I'd like some thoughts on perhaps using alternate materials to get the waterproofing for pipes. At present, it takes a whole lot of flowers, plus a resource players can't readily get with the sulfur issue. I'm thinking perhaps we could stay with the flowers = latex and perhaps mix that with gypsum instead. I'd like feedback on the craft rate - right now Rhapsody and I are discussing that perhaps the flower requirements are way too high.

    Maybe if you increase the output, it would be more reasonable. Maybe if a bucket latex made 32 rubber (this would make 8 liquid transfer pipes) instead of 4 rubber it would be better.
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  3. Update:

    Upgraded Machine shop from teir 2 to 3 (No real change, besides my attempt to make Coke Oven, but It does meet qualifications)

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    Found oil North of the Wreck in the sand dunes. For public use, please do not abuse. (needs town protection)

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    Due to bug, Players are unable to properly find Sulfur in lava pits. Sulfur is necessary for making water proof pipes, therefore players need a stall that sells Sulfur to compensate for the lack in the world. If you choose to heed this plead for help, please remember that it costs 1 sulfur per pipe.

    Also, we need a recipe for the Water tank, can't make one...

    Thanks

    Edit: I also plan to power the machine shop with the oil I found. I will be seeking to make an iron tank to allow players better access to fuel. Will make a tank cart as well as the liquid loader and unloader and rails once the roller is made.

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  4. Gasification processes turn hydrocarbons into carbon monoxide and hydrogen gasThe charring method is pyrolysis. I'm also really confused why you think the charring process should have higher yields than a beehive coke ovenYour quoted yields seem unreasonably low. It sounds the British coke makers described in that link used to make charcoal, but switched to coke and tried to produce the coke using the same exact method (governments used to restrict charcoal production because it led to rampant deforestation). It sounds like they didn`t understand that coal contained more carbon than wood, so they didn`t realize they were burning thier product by processing it too long. Or if they did, they thought it was uninvitable?Either way if the charring method is introduced to TFC instead of Beehive coke ovens, the process should still give ~twice as much coke as it does charcoal. Otherwise what is the point of adding coke.

    Yeah, I'm sorry for the confusing wording, I forgot that the process is call pyrolysis, however you got the point so whatever. The low yields were caused by many reasons like: inefficiencies in beehive construction, heat damage, lack of experience, inefficient cooling, etc. Like it was stated in the video, the heat from those mass production Beehive ovens would melt brick during processing, plus it took longer to process larger quantities of coke due to both charring and cooling time. The efficiency was increased when quenching was introduced, but the coke still had to be drawn out to dry.Early coke makers did not have as much experience in preventing the problems that can waste coal as well as a tried-and-true method of cooking. It just hadn't been done long enough. Pyrolysis done right can prevent coal from simply burning up and being turned to ash, this is why it is more efficient (I don't want to defend this method anymore, it was only an example).Edit: I believe the article only talks about beehive ovens and even specific quotes using beehive ovens in the 1800's had 40-50% yields. But real life yields don't really matter, they can be changed for balancing.
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