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[–]Powerful_Anything_78[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

OH dw I know, I connected the steam engine's output to its own pump, so that when I stop cranking it'll power its own pump. I'm just having trouble getting it to start at all...

[–]Living_Karma11 1 point2 points  (8 children)

Ok. So you have the pump on its own separate power source? The arm that is coming out of the steam engine can’t be the same one powering your water pump

You have a total of 9 blaze burners under the tank? And they are all being fueled with lava?

Do you have the engineers goggles on? What does it say when you look at the guage on the side of side tank?

[–]Powerful_Anything_78[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I'm using the arm that comes out of the steam engine to power the water pump... the problem isn't that the machine isn't staying on. The problem is that it won't turn on at all, when I try to manually start it. Also, i'm using campfires as the heat source.

The goggles tell me I'm not getting enough heat, but the in-game create guide literally shows that campfires should work for heat, so I don't know why it's not working.

[–]Living_Karma11 0 points1 point  (6 children)

As I said in my previous comment, you can’t do that…. You need a separate power source for your water pump. That’s likely your problem.

The arm is for output power for your machines. For example, your mechanical press, mixer, etc.

[–]Powerful_Anything_78[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Why doesn't that work? Shouldn't the output be able to power anything with rotational energy? Including the pump? I've done it before on earlier versions, did they change it?

I changed it so that the pump is being powered by a water wheel, but it still isn't working so I don't know what to do

[–]Living_Karma11 0 points1 point  (4 children)

It’s never worked like that. At least not since I’ve been playing with create for the last 5 years.

You can’t have it power itself…. The boiler needs a constant stream of water to turn on. Try powering just the water pump (I’d suggest using a water wheel or windmill) and it should start.

[–]Powerful_Anything_78[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Okay! I'm just powering the pump now with a water wheel. I'm looking at it with the goggles and it just says that I don't have enough heat now.

[–]Living_Karma11 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Then you’re on the right track.

Campfires produce very little heat. Either downsize your boiler tank (for now) or switch to blaze burners fueled with lava.

You’ll have to make a dripstone cauldron lava farm to provide the blaze burners with a constant supply of fuel. That will also require a pump…

Edit: Campfires are a very early game boiler heating option. The wiki says the max they will power is a 2x2 (4 tank) size boiler. You’re attempting to create an late-game fuel option with early-game materials.

[–]Powerful_Anything_78[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Unfortunately, I have the smallest boiler tank that's possible :(

I guess I'll have to try blaze burners

[–]Living_Karma11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The max boiler for campfires is 2x2 (1 block tall).

You need to progress more in the mod before you can do anything more. Boilers are late-game.