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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.

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.

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?

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.
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.

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

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.

Thank you