WORLD'S MOST COMPACT LVL-36 STEAM ENGINE (600K SU)

I couldn't find any compact, high-capacity steam engine designs, so here's my take.

As far as I know, this is the world's most compact 4× Level 9 steam engine layout, correct me if I'm wrong! It uses water wheels to kickstart the system, and the entire lava -> lava bucket -> blaze burner process is built directly into the farm using a single mechanical arm between the boilers.

The entire setup fits within a 7×7×8 footprint.

Lava Requirements

You'll need to provide your own lava generation. You can use:

• Nether trains

• An infinite lava source in the Overworld

• A dripstone/cauldron lava farm

• Whatever else / other mods you may play with...

The system requires 36 buckets of lava every 1,000 seconds. That's relatively easy to sustain compared to the infrastructure required for a blaze cake farm.

IMPORTANT -- Schematicannon Users

If you're building this with a Schematicannon, you will need to place the water manually.

You need to waterlog:

• 10 shafts between the water wheels (see second picture)

• The prismarine stairs that feed water into the pumps, located between two of the boilers

Everything else should be placed by the schematic as normal.

Notes:

May take a second to start up at first if the blaze burners are cold since the mechanical arm needs to fill all 36 of them.