How do I use pipes to connect the steam output to the steam engine?

[Soul]

I'm playing the demo and ironically I think it's glitched. What a great selling point!

I've connected the boiler to the steam engine. I've put fuel in the boiler. It just doesn't work. Does anyone know what I should do?

[Soul]

Originally posted by Aceia Skyrage:

do you have water going to the boiler?

of course. everything is as it should be as far as I know. I don't think I'm missing anything. I've tried connecting the water source to all 3 "pipe entrances" on the boiler, and connecting to the steam engine the same way. Every variation of everything I could possibly imagine. Still can't get it to work.

[Soul]

Now it's suddenly working... I didn't change anything, just tried again. Is this game typically so touchy?

[impetus_maximus]

you just need to learn the mechanics a bit. they won't run if they are not powering anything. ;)

[Harry]

Do you know about the more detailed view you can activate with the ALT key? It gives you more information like, inserter orientation, fluid in/outputs and some more stuff. The next thing is that a screenshot would be best, since we can't see your setup telling you what you missed or if you really found a bug is hard^^.

As impetus said, It could be that you just had no electric consumer in your system. The boiler will not consume coal if there is no electricity needed. But it could also be sth. else.

[Soul]

Originally posted by impetus maximus:

you just need to learn the mechanics a bit. they won't run if they are not powering anything. ;)

thanks

[Soul]

Originally posted by Harry:

Do you know about the more detailed view you can activate with the ALT key? It gives you more information like, inserter orientation, fluid in/outputs and some more stuff. The next thing is that a screenshot would be best, since we can't see your setup telling you what you missed or if you really found a bug is hard^^.

As impetus said, It could be that you just had no electric consumer in your system. The boiler will not consume coal if there is no electricity needed. But it could also be sth. else.

thanks for the alt key tip. this game looks pretty in depth and dank.

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Harry:

As impetus said, It could be that you just had no electric consumer in your system. The boiler will not consume coal if there is no electricity needed. But it could also be sth. else.

Also, if you didn't have a power pole down, the engine isn't connected to a power grid and thus won't have anywhere to send the power.

There are all kinds of things, OP, that can cause engines not to work. The game being "touchy" is not one of them. There are so few actual bugs in this game that we all just assume (and are usually right) that it is a user error, not game glitch.

Keep on trucking! We're here to help.

[Soul]

Originally posted by Warlord:

Originally posted by Harry:

As impetus said, It could be that you just had no electric consumer in your system. The boiler will not consume coal if there is no electricity needed. But it could also be sth. else.

Also, if you didn't have a power pole down, the engine isn't connected to a power grid and thus won't have anywhere to send the power.

There are all kinds of things, OP, that can cause engines not to work. The game being "touchy" is not one of them. There are so few actual bugs in this game that we all just assume (and are usually right) that it is a user error, not game glitch.

Keep on trucking! We're here to help.

I'm just in the tutorial. There is something weird that happens when initially connecting the boiler to the steam engine. I follow the directions to a t and nothing happens. It just gets stuck. If I reload enough times it works.

[impetus_maximus]

is this in the campaign or clicking the academic cap in the upper right corner?

[TestedBubble]

Originally posted by Phenix:

Originally posted by Warlord:

Also, if you didn't have a power pole down, the engine isn't connected to a power grid and thus won't have anywhere to send the power.

There are all kinds of things, OP, that can cause engines not to work. The game being "touchy" is not one of them. There are so few actual bugs in this game that we all just assume (and are usually right) that it is a user error, not game glitch.

Keep on trucking! We're here to help.

I'm just in the tutorial. There is something weird that happens when initially connecting the boiler to the steam engine. I follow the directions to a t and nothing happens. It just gets stuck. If I reload enough times it works.

You, like me, probably did it one way and got water stuck in the pipes. This meant that the steam would not go through, By deleting the pipes and retrying the other way it meant that not water got stuck in the pipes as you only let the pipes connect to the gas exit.

[juliejayne]

Originally posted by TestedBubble:

Originally posted by Phenix:

I'm just in the tutorial. There is something weird that happens when initially connecting the boiler to the steam engine. I follow the directions to a t and nothing happens. It just gets stuck. If I reload enough times it works.

You, like me, probably did it one way and got water stuck in the pipes. This meant that the steam would not go through, By deleting the pipes and retrying the other way it meant that not water got stuck in the pipes as you only let the pipes connect to the gas exit.

Good point, I have never done that with steam and water, but I got into a terible mess mixing my oils. I had to deconstruct and start afresh with the refinery.

[KatherineOfSky]

"Connecting all the pipes together" does NOT work consistently. Water goes into either of the long ends of the boiler. Steam comes out the side. DO NOT mix water and steam, or they will continually get blocked up.

Connect a water inlet to the offshore pump. Connect the side outlet for steam to the steam engine. Don't join these pipe networks together.

[ZomBeGone]

I had the same issue with the tutorial. I spent a lot of time researching it and trying it over and over again before such a simple thing as connecting that pipe, finally worked for me. I finally got it working then was immediately killed :D

I quit the tutorial and started a game instead and am happy I did. If I have to figure the stuff out anyway, I might as well do it in a game.

I wonder how many people did not buy the game after getting stuck on the demo tutorial?

[Soul]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

"Connecting all the pipes together" does NOT work consistently. Water goes into either of the long ends of the boiler. Steam comes out the side. DO NOT mix water and steam, or they will continually get blocked up.

Connect a water inlet to the offshore pump. Connect the side outlet for steam to the steam engine. Don't join these pipe networks together.

Thanks. Although I got past this part it's still very unclear to me how it works. I only managed to get it to work by trying every exponential variable of possible ways. When it worked, I moved on, but I never got a sense of understanding of why it wasn't working before and why it works now. I like to think I'm a pretty intelligent guy, but this was tricky. I bought the game anyway and love it.

[Serathis]

I think the campaing tells you how does it work.