Add temperature to Recipes

[btarrant]

fixed thread title — ssilk

Is it possible to add temperature to recipes. I have a boiler which requires a script to set temp to 90 so useless for power but via data would be far more efficient.

[Optera]

Are you talking about the input temperature of the boiler or the fluid temperature?

Heat Exchangers basically do what you want, only work above 500° input temperature.

Gradual fluid temperatures however where removed mid 0.15 and are not coming back.
Now we have to create different fluid prototypes e.g. Water, Steam 500°C, Steam 800°C for the same effect.

[btarrant]

output temperature of a recipe.
"Now we have to create different fluid prototypes e.g. Water, Steam 500°C, Steam 800°C for the same effect."
I had a look at fluid.lua but wasn't seeing different prototypes? Wouldn't the names collide?

[Silari]

You can set the temp of a fluid output in a recipe with the 'temperature' property, IIRC. If you use the following as the output of a recipe in an assembler or chem plant, it should give you 90C steam.

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{type="fluid", name="steam", amount=60, temperature=90}

Note that boilers don't use a recipe, they've got their own method of specifying output temperature with their 'target_temperature' property. Making your own boiler entity with 'target_temperature=90' would make it output 90C steam. You'd also need to adjust the energy_consumption to match how much water/steam it consumes/produces per second.


Would probably help if you said exactly what you're trying to do.

[btarrant]

thank you will try, I used to do this "temperature=90" but it must have not worked on some version but now must do again. I don't think it's in the api docs,
cheers

[Silari]

It's in there: https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/FluidIn ... tPrototype . I confirmed it worked before I posted with a simple recipe to convert water to 90C steam in a chemplant. Worked fine.

Keep in mind if you want info on Prototypes, the wiki has those. https://lua-api.factorio.com/ is more on the scripting side of things.

[btarrant]

Thank you