Talk:Fire Powered Generator/@comment-73.114.149.45-20190413021759

A fantastic upgrade to the energy efficiency of a mid game workshop. Lower tier machines take 1 wood per hour. Higher tier machines require power stones or condensed power stones which can be expensive to supply. The Fire Powered Generator gives 2.5 hours of energy per wood for ANY 2 machines. It's very easy to supply a huge number of Fire Powered Generators from the Tree Farm's harvest.

The downside is that the generator is "always on", that is it will consume fuel if you are using the energy or not. The generator can be manually shut off if there's nothing to do.

The floor connection works pretty much the same as with irrigation systems. All floor tiles that share a border are part of the same network. All machines and generators in the network need all of their floor tiles covered to connect properly. All the active generators add 2 energy each, while every active consumer needs 1 energy to function at full power. The full network status is shown on every generator.

Conductive Flooring gets expensive pretty fast. Set up multiple cutters to start cutting the huge number of hardwood planks needed to connect things together. A decent supply of copper wire (and full coils?) can be picked up in the sewers. The industrial engines may be difficult to gather if you plan on building a lot of these, so don't waste them on too many other things.

The Fire Powered generator is completely obsoleted by the Factory, which comes with its own super generator.