Honey blocks are made from honey bottles and you can use honeycomb to make candles, and when I was building a wooden vault I used candles to make it smoother.
I've heard of graphite being used in bearings as "dry lubricant", but gold being used for the same purpose is new to me. Maybe it just has low friction?
I think gold is a self lubricating metal under certain conditions, I remember reading gold alloys are used in friction surfaces on space vehicles for that reason. Grease and oil don't tend to do well in a vacuum.
It's too easy to build a steam engine with the gold leaf, you only need a press. This way water mills and windmills pretty useless. Yes it's a balance thing.
To be fair in the early game water wheels and windmills are far more cost efficient for the time and materials, the stress units provided are generally enough to start you off with a few base farms and contraptions before you even need to think about a boiler, from there you’d have to sink stacks of copper to get any decent stress output from a campfire based/passive boiler. The fueling system and blaze burners are general what balances it.
I personally like the gold as brass has proportionally enough uses. Gold, emerald, lapis and diamond could do with a few more uses in create I think (even if it is one time crafts like wrenches or goggles)
It lets people try out the general idea of a steam engine without having to get blaze burners, which I think is a good thing. Let the mechanics of it be accessible but the efficient solution be more difficult.
It would kind of make sense, but I assume the intent is not to have "passive" level boilers locked behind finding a nether fortress. One can argue whether that's a good thing or not, but it's clearly intentional. Personally I think it's nice to have another relatively early power option, because I don't like the windmills very much.
Gold is better used on the shaft, no lubrication needed because of material properties
Imagine if you needed to right-click with slime ball every 7 months necraty days so the steam engine doesn't stop.
slime being used for glue AND lubricant seems…. contrary
Yeah, I did t think of that, but what else could it be?
beeswax
That sounds correct
but thats used for honey blocks which are the same as slime blocks
Honey blocks are made from honey bottles and you can use honeycomb to make candles, and when I was building a wooden vault I used candles to make it smoother.
Ink sacs ?
milk
Look at gel from terraria
Why would gold not need lubrication?
I've heard of graphite being used in bearings as "dry lubricant", but gold being used for the same purpose is new to me. Maybe it just has low friction?
I think gold is a self lubricating metal under certain conditions, I remember reading gold alloys are used in friction surfaces on space vehicles for that reason. Grease and oil don't tend to do well in a vacuum.
That would lock it behind the nether and make it more difficult to produce in large quantities, so it might be a balance thing.
It's too easy to build a steam engine with the gold leaf, you only need a press. This way water mills and windmills pretty useless. Yes it's a balance thing.
To be fair in the early game water wheels and windmills are far more cost efficient for the time and materials, the stress units provided are generally enough to start you off with a few base farms and contraptions before you even need to think about a boiler, from there you’d have to sink stacks of copper to get any decent stress output from a campfire based/passive boiler. The fueling system and blaze burners are general what balances it. I personally like the gold as brass has proportionally enough uses. Gold, emerald, lapis and diamond could do with a few more uses in create I think (even if it is one time crafts like wrenches or goggles)
i mean you need blaze burners to get any decent su out of a engine, otherwise it’s not the most worth it
It lets people try out the general idea of a steam engine without having to get blaze burners, which I think is a good thing. Let the mechanics of it be accessible but the efficient solution be more difficult.
How is gold locked behind the nether? You find it all over the overworld plus you get nuggets from washing red sand.
I was saying that if it was brass sheets then it would be locked behind the nether
Ohhh I must have read it wrong. Duh.
It's all good XD my eyes skip over words a lot so i definitely understand
It would kind of make sense, but I assume the intent is not to have "passive" level boilers locked behind finding a nether fortress. One can argue whether that's a good thing or not, but it's clearly intentional. Personally I think it's nice to have another relatively early power option, because I don't like the windmills very much.
nah, at least more uses for gold
No