Mekanistic Geothermal

⚠️ Alpha. Playable, but expect bugs and balance changes. Back up your world before updating, and please report what you find (link below).

An addon for Mekanism: a geothermal wellhead that drills its own well and turns water into steam with the heat of the depths, for Mekanism's turbines.

📖 Documentation: https://mrnesclick.github.io/MrNesClick-Mods/mekanistic-geothermal/

The Basic Geothermal Wellhead

• It drills its own well. Put Steel Well Casings in its slots, set the target depth and press Start drilling: it goes down one block at a time, one casing per block, and stops at the target or on lava.
• Deeper is hotter. Heat grows with depth, and lava near the bottom adds to it. A deep Basic well makes about 400 mB/t of Mekanism steam: well above passive generators, well below a fission reactor.
• A real Mekanism machine. Built on Mekanism's own machine framework: its interface, side configuration and auto-eject, Configurator, Speed and Energy upgrades, redstone control and security work exactly as on Mekanism's machines.
• A guide lists the steps from a new wellhead to steam leaving the well and shows what to do next.

Safety and balance

• A mechanical safety valve vents above 80 % pressure; the control system stops production at 90 % and when the water runs out; an emergency stop halts everything. Eruptions are off by default.
• Speed upgrades drill faster and double the steam rate; as in Mekanism, the energy use grows with the square of the speed.
• Nearby wells interfere, and a well slowly exhausts under heavy load (at most 15 % of its rate), then recovers at rest.
• Everything is configurable in the server config: rates, costs, thresholds, each mechanic on or off. Mild by default, harder if your modpack wants it.

Geothermal Logic Adapter

A redstone output for one condition of a linked well (producing, drilling, high pressure, low water and more), or a redstone input for the emergency stop.

Requirements

Mekanism Generators is optional (its Industrial Turbine turns the steam into energy).

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Bug reports and suggestions

Report bugs and suggest ideas on GitHub (English or French). Please give your versions and, for a crash, the log.

License

MIT. Not affiliated with the Mekanism authors.