Why doesnt my steam engine work user?

why doesnt my steam engine work user?

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anons pls help

do you have anything using electricity right now?

yes

Is there coal in the boilers and in the grabbers? It's been a while since I've played so I'm not too sure what's what.

you electricity cable needs to be near your steam engine

there are

Then either the pump is fucked up somehow or the wires aren't close enough to your generator.

it's either that or you're not drawing power from it. steam engines won't run if the power isn't needed somewhere,

not working user

i found my problem, i wasnt using ENOUGH power.

Get coal manually into the boils. The grabbers need electricity to run.

thx anons

>All that oil
Jesus fuck user, what were your map generation settings?

Are those coal powered inserters? It looks like the aren't working so your boilers aren't heating the water to power the steam engine.

I have no idea why coal powered inserters even exist in this game since you can easily make yellow inserters at the start.

using coal inserters is good for your first steam engine, because you will have a large abundance of coal and you dont have to manually fill the boilers. you also then don't have electrically powered inserters eating into your power supply from the get go.

btw OP, the ratio should be 14 boilers to 10 steam engines, if i recall correctly.

Your steam engine is not connected to your electricity poles.

Ensure that the steam engine is connected to something that is using/(wants to use) Power right now via power cables. Each device needs to have at least one square on a square that is being powered by a pole.

have they released .23 yet

I mean .13

Had a lot of fun with this game until reaching the oil stage and building robots.

Became a real fucking grind at that point.

>building robots
Impossible, once you have robots the game is in easy mode

It isn't working because the pump isn't connected to the pipe.

Shit what game is this again?

Yeah, just got its first patch too.
Flamethrower is broken tier powerful now

Were twin headed trains a thing before this patch? I remember trying to make them earlier but they didn't work. Its so nice not having to make massive turnabouts for every shitty outpost.

Pump isn't connected, silly.