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Useful Fuel Engine Platform by Guaibee
   
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Dec 27, 2016 @ 9:04am
Feb 9, 2017 @ 6:11am
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Useful Fuel Engine Platform by Guaibee

Description
Here I present the 'Useful Fuel Engine Platform', with a bunch of designs that you may hopefully find useful... except under a closer look, some of the designs I've included on this platform is underperforming, so I've decided to leave them on there (not because I'm lazy or anything) as failed experiments, for investigation by interested individuals to hopefully make them work. The main goal of course is to provide a variety of engines for different people with different purposes, power demands and efficiency requirements, though I also hope that this engine platform can provide some insight into building compact and efficient engines as well. I will be updating this platform from time to time, adding in interesting designs I've made/found elsewhere.

This platform was originally posted on the official forums. Updates will be specified over there, so pop in if you wish to check them out.

The platform is divided into three levels:
'Red zone', where the designs with higher power density but still decent efficiency reside;
'Yellow zone', where the most common efficient engines can be found;
and 'Green zone', the environmentalist's wet dream, where ultra efficient designs are displayed.
I've also decided to add a 'Grey zone' for educational purposes, where I explain the principle behind all the inline turbos on this platform; 'Magenta zone' for smaller standalone engines that do not fit in the other zones; and a Black section on top of 'Red zone', with some fearsome beasts lurking... whatever would they be?

Feel free to use the engines on the platform (until the original creators complain and I have to remove them or something), and give feedback and criticism (unless you want to mock me for doing fuel engines in the age ot steam, in which case go away). Also feel free to show me new engine designs for research and educational purposes.
13 Comments
Major0Noob Jul 14, 2020 @ 4:38pm 
to get these to work well now: you'll need to add a few injectors and attach some radiators. the green and yellow are broken from the recent engine changes but the reds are still good.


currently 1 mat = 640 power in steam (best possible result, in practice it's 320-500), 1 mat = 8-14 fuel. in terms of efficiency, you'll need a 14 fuel/mat and 35+ppf engine to outperform steam.

so a 50ppf engine is about 1.4x more efficient than steam. if your buying fuel, or using the 2/16 lil refinery it's better to use steam
Fremdling Jun 11, 2020 @ 11:05am 
I tested some of these, I think they are not longer working vey well - at least the ones I tested...
Barna Jun 2, 2020 @ 7:53am 
are these still up to date and usable?
Inane Mar 11, 2020 @ 8:27am 
The inline turbo chargers need gas to increase the efficancy of the carburettors which means that the engine needs to be under stress for the zylinders to produce the gas which the turbos need and the higher the RPM of the engine the more gas is produced by the zylinders. But the efficancy is caped at 3.94.
Mask of Humble Feb 18, 2020 @ 9:40pm 
So I am having the same problem as some of the others, I pre-fab the engine I want to use, put it onto another ship and don't get the same PPFU as the engine on display, I even deleted the other engine and replaced it and when replaced it doesn't have the same PPFU as the origninal, maybe he has all the skills that effect engine performance?
Skathmaine Jan 18, 2020 @ 12:26am 
TO get the PPFU shown you have to load the engine and let it run for a bit if you just paste it and never put it under any heavy load it wont perform
Tim Dec 1, 2019 @ 4:04pm 
I prefabbed one over. I literally took one of the engines. It did not have the fuel efficiency of the same engine on his raft.
Othi Nov 29, 2019 @ 9:04am 
Turbocharger madness, I believe.

It's worth noting that it's not truly 0 fuel usage. It's close to 0, but it's such a small number that the game rounds it down to 0. It's still good enough that you could plonk down a single fuel storage block and have the craft last an entire battle, probably
Tim Nov 22, 2019 @ 1:04pm 
I tried recreating some of these on a fortress of my own, and I could not get anywhere near the PPFU that you got. I even prefabbed one over, and still got sub 100 PPFU. Also, how do some of your engines use 0 fuel?
Zeros79 Nov 22, 2019 @ 9:47am 
Loving it, Thanks :lunar2019grinningpig: