SteelWorks Beta 0.7 — "Fluids & Steam"

Water in, steam out. Your reactor's waste heat just became a power plant.

💧 New: Fluids & Steam

• Fluid Pipe — moves water and steam between machines (100 mB/t), auto-connects to tanks, boilers, turbines and cooling towers
• Fluid Tank — 16,000 mB storage with a live liquid-level GUI
• Fluid Pump — pulls water straight out of lakes and oceans, no buckets required
• Steam Boiler — burns any fuel to turn water into steam
• Steam Turbine — consumes steam and spins it into FE. Boiler + Turbine = 30 FE/t, identical total FE per fuel to the Coal Generator — the payoff is shape, not free energy

🏭 Cooling Tower Rework — heat becomes power

• Towers now hold water tanks and turn removed reactor heat into steam (50 mB per heat point)
• A water-fed 2-tower reactor feeds the turbine ~45 FE/t of recovered power
• Dry towers only cool at 1/3 rate — old worlds don't melt down on update, but water is now the right answer

🎖️ More

• 2 new advancements (Steam Power, Cool Under Pressure) — 32 total on both loaders
• Manual v7 with a new Fluids & Steam part
• 16 new config options — pipe rate, tank capacity, boiler/turbine output, all tunable
• JEI/EMI shows every fluid recipe (water in → steam out → FE out)
• Fixed: turbine LIT flicker on first tick, pump/pipe double-draw deadlock

✅ Verified: 38/38 game tests pass on NeoForge 1.21.1 and Forge 1.20.1.

Files: steelworks-0.7.0.jar (NeoForge 1.21.1) · steelworks-0.7.0-forge.jar (Forge 1.20.1)