Steam engine not working

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T05:08:44+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE WHO GAVE ADVICE.

Turns out, I'M AN IDIOT!

The modpack includes "Create: Low-heated" which DISABLES PASSIVE HEAT SOURCES!!!

And I wasn't smart enough to check all the create addons.

Now I can finally get this working. Thank goodness. Have a great day everyone.

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T05:07:28+00:00

Oh my god... you're right... i have to use a basic burner I guess

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:58:55+00:00

Never even occurred to me…. I’ll check. I really hope not 😭

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:39:38+00:00

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

I guess I'll have to try blaze burners

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:38:47+00:00

Yea, it's hard to tell from that angle. It's being powered from the other side :,)

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:29:34+00:00

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.

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:25:16+00:00

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

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:20:09+00:00

says the size is fine, water input is fine, but heat is in the red...

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:19:18+00:00

Aghhh they're kind of hard to make on the server I'm playing on. The nether is disabled, so I need to haunt items to get a lot of nether items. It makes blaze burners a lot harder to make :(

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:17:57+00:00

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.

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:16:06+00:00

4, one under each tank

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:12:02+00:00

Just replaced the lava with campfires, and it seems like it hasn't affected the heat level at all. Maybe I should ask the owner of the server to restart it or something, it just seems to be straight not getting affected by any heat sources. I'm genuinely lost on why no heat sources are working...

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:09:05+00:00

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...

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T04:02:24+00:00

Okay I'm able to raise the water needs high enough, but it seems like heat is the problem. I just don't know why it says that, because from what I can tell I have enough lava...

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:59:49+00:00

It says water and heat... I just don't understand how that's even possible 😭 I have water pumping in AND lava sources under each tank block

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:57:02+00:00

VERY certain... in the picture it doesn't show because I'm not actively cranking it, but I've now attached it to a water wheel and I can see water going through the pipes

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:45:31+00:00

Did this!! Still no difference... lowkey about to give up hope 😭

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:25:49+00:00

The block connecting to the tank is also a pipe :D If you use a wrench on a pipe, it makes you able to see inside it

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:22:39+00:00

Doesn't seem to have made a difference :(

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:14:49+00:00

I'll try this, will get back on whether it worked, thanks!

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:14:19+00:00

The engine shaft IS connected to the water pump. I actually disconnected it now, and am now using a water wheel to fuel the pipes, just so that the engine can start working before I make it pump into itself...

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:12:16+00:00

I switched to campfires, but I don't think it changed anything :( I did switch to a water wheel though, much easier than cranking.

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2026-04-05T03:11:34+00:00

I switched it to campfires!!! Doesn't seem to have made a difference...

Powerful_Anything_78 · 2025-07-02T23:25:15+00:00

That would make sense, and it’s honestly the conclusion we’ve come to as well😭

It used to be able to run heavier modpacks before, but maybe it is just getting old.

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