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Flux Foundry 0.4.0-beta.1 — Steam Age

Steam Age is here. Build an interconnected power plant that turns water and fuel into Steam, routes it through dedicated Steam Pipes, generates FE in a Steam Turbine, and recovers most of the water for reuse.

Added

• Boiler

  • Burns standard furnace fuels

  • Converts Water into Steam at up to 20 mB/t

  • 8,000 mB Water and 8,000 mB Steam capacity

  • Includes a native machine GUI and fuel automation

  • Pauses safely when Water is unavailable or Steam output is blocked

• Steam

  • New transferable fluxfoundry:steam resource

  • Uses standard NeoForge fluid capabilities

• Steam Pipe

  • Dedicated Steam-only transport

  • Shared 1,000 mB/t network throughput

  • Supports branching networks and multiple producers/consumers

  • Cached network topology for lightweight operation

  • Does not force-load chunks

• Steam Turbine

  • Consumes up to 20 mB Steam/t

  • Generates 4 FE per mB, up to 80 FE/t

  • Produces an equal amount of Exhaust Steam

  • 64,000 FE internal buffer

• Exhaust Steam

  • New transferable resource representing spent Turbine Steam

  • Can be routed into the Condenser for Water recovery

• Condenser

  • Converts Exhaust Steam back into Water

  • Recovers exactly 95% of processed Steam

  • Processes up to 20 mB/t

  • Uses persistent fractional accounting for exact long-term recovery

• Water Pump

  • Provides standalone makeup Water for Steam plants

  • Requires a nearby Water source

  • Produces up to 20 mB/t

  • Demand-driven: only pumps Water when it can actually be used

  • Costs 0.5 FE per mB of Water produced

  • Does not consume FE while idle or blocked

• New crafting recipes, models, English localization and Steam-machine interfaces.

Steam Plant Balance

A complete 1,000 mB Steam cycle produces:

1,000 mB Water → 1,000 mB Steam → 4,000 FE + 1,000 mB Exhaust Steam

The Condenser recovers 950 mB Water, leaving only 50 mB for the Water Pump to replace.

That makeup Water costs 25 FE, resulting in:

4,000 FE gross → 3,975 FE net electrical output

before the separate cost of Boiler fuel.

Changed

• Wrench support expanded to Steam-machine facing.

• Creative inventory now includes all five new Steam Age blocks.

• Existing power generation, processing machines, upgrades, Wind behavior and registry IDs remain compatible.

Compatibility & Performance

• Existing 0.3.0-beta.1 worlds upgrade directly to 0.4.0-beta.1 without registry migration.

• Steam Pipe networks use cached topology and bounded discovery.

• 10-pipe, 100-pipe and branching networks completed stable testing with zero topology rebuilds or discovery passes during their observation windows.

• Steam Age does not force-load chunks.

• Standard NeoForge fluid and FE capabilities are used for interoperability.

• 69/69 tests passed, including all 52 tests from previous Flux Foundry releases.

Known Beta Limitations

• One Steam type/pressure

• Steam Pipes transport Steam only

• Water and Exhaust use adjacency or compatible external automation

• No universal fluid-pipe network yet

• No formed multiblock Boilers or Turbines

• No nuclear heat source yet

• No advanced Turbine tiers

• Functional Beta artwork without animated Turbine rendering

Requires Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge, and Java 25.