Steam Engine (Spaced Out)

Steam Engine

Utilizes Steam to propel rockets for space exploration.

Rockets can be used to send Duplicants into space and retrieve rare resources.

Burden	Potential Range	Engine Power	Max Rocket Height
15	10	27	25

SteamEngineCluster

7×5 tiles

2000 °C

0 (Radius: 0 tiles)

150 kg Steam

Power: +600 W

200 kg

As opposed to the Base Game version of the Steam engine it has a much lower storage capacity for Steam at 150 kg.

Even though its range of 10 seems to only allow 5 tiles distance when round trip is taken into consideration, its cheap fuel and height allowance can stretch that distance considerably. By putting a rocket platform on a planetoid with a Gas Rocket Port Unloader powered by the rocket's own battery module, it can unload steam right out of the rocket's Gas Cargo Canister. Allowing a steam rocket to go to any planetoid within 10 hexes of its starting location, and 5 hexes roundtrip to any Space POI.

Thanks to it being slow, a steam rocket provides much more opportunities for a Duplicant to interact with the rocket controls, ensuring that dupe will max out piloting in only a few missions.

A rocket with a Steam Engine emits a large amount of Steam on launch or landing, which can be recycled using Gas Pumps made of Steel, Niobium or Thermium. This is usually more than the amount of steam consumed as fuel (especially when the distance to be traveled is short, since the amount of steam produced is unrelated to distance traveled and thus fuel consumption), allowing a Steam Engine to be resource-positive, producing renewable Water. The first bit of steam can be produced by heating Water with hot Regolith, or submerging a full Metal Power Bank or Eco Power Bank under 100-300 kg of Water, allowing the power bank to explode and produce enough heat to turn Water into Steam of suitable temperature.

It is much cheaper to build (200 kg of Refined Metal) comparing to its Base Game Version (2000 kg of Steel)
Its current description and flavor text is a word for word copy from the Base Game Version.
The only visual difference to its Base Game Version is a blue outline.

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