Steam & Create — ULV · bronze age, hybrid route

Era id: steam · Tier: ulv

Goal: Alloys, automated steel and rubber, first circuits, LV hull and the first energy converter.

Exit items: gtceu:lv_machine_hull, gtceu:basic_electronic_circuit, gtceu:lv_1a_energy_converter

Create does the mechanical work (press, heated mixer, crushing wheels, windmills). Steam only where it pays: the Solid Blast Furnace. Skip boilers.

Steps

1. Rotation — Windmill bearing + sails: free stress forever, no fuel. (create:andesite_alloy, create:windmill_bearing, create:white_sail)
2. Press — Plates at 1 ingot each (hand hammer costs 2). (create:mechanical_press)
3. Heated mixer — Your alloy smelter until LV: bronze, brass, red alloy, invar, soul infused, cured rubber. (create:mechanical_mixer, create:basin, createlowheated:basic_burner)
4. Primitive Ore Factory — Nickel, gold and zinc come out as byproducts of crushed ores. Use the 10 ores + 2 coal blocks recipe: 15 dusts + byproducts. (gtceu:primitive_ore_factory, gtceu:nickel_dust, gtceu:gold_dust)
5. Charcoal — Logs → charcoal + creosote. 8 sugar cane → 1 charcoal also works. (gtceu:coke_oven, minecraft:charcoal, gtceu:creosote_bucket)
6. Steel — Wrought iron + 2 charcoal → steel in 16 s, with buses. Plain iron takes 36 s. (gtceu:solid_blast_furnace, gtceu:steel_ingot)
7. Rubber — Latex from jungle trees → rubber → +sulfur in the mixer → press into rubber plates. (thermal:device_tree_extractor, thermal:rubber, thermal:cured_rubber, gtceu:rubber_plate)
8. LV superconductor — Invar + 2 soul sand dust → 3 soul infused. (thermal_extra:soul_sand_dust, gtceu:invar_ingot, gtceu:soul_infused_ingot)
9. First circuit — Make 8–16 at once; every LV machine needs one. (gtceu:resistor, gtceu:vacuum_tube, gtceu:resin_printed_circuit_board, gtceu:basic_electronic_circuit)
10. Into LV — Converter turns FE into EU (4 FE = 1 EU). FE→EU is the only direction allowed. (gtceu:lv_machine_hull, gtceu:lv_1a_energy_converter)

Machines to build

Machine	Count
create:windmill_bearing	2
create:mechanical_press	1–2
create:mechanical_mixer	2
create:crushing_wheel	2
gtceu:coke_oven	2
gtceu:solid_blast_furnace	1
gtceu:primitive_ore_factory	1
gtceu:large_barrel	1
gtceu:large_stone_barrel	1–2

Setups

• Free rotation (Create)
• Create steam power: Steam Engines + Generator Coils
• Create tree farm (rotating saws + deployers)
• Charcoal: Create fan smelting
• Charcoal & creosote: Coke Oven
• Infinite gravel (Create)
• Gravel, sand & dust: Steam Forge Hammer
• Crops: Large Farm (no power)
• Alloys: Create heated mixer
• Alloys: Steam / LV Alloy Smelter (more per ingot)
• Steel: Primitive Blast Furnace
• Steel: Solid Blast Furnace
• Rubber: Large Arboreal Extractor

Storage

• Parts: Drawers for plates, rods, screws. (functionalstorage:oak_1)
• Access: Tom’s Storage terminal over all chests and drawers — your network until AE2. (toms_storage:ts.storage_terminal, toms_storage:ts.inventory_connector)
• Moving: Pipez between coke ovens, SBF and drawers. Keep pipe networks short. (pipez:item_pipe, pipez:fluid_pipe)
• Fluids: Fluid Cells for creosote and water; upgrade with kits. (thermal:fluid_cell)

Multiblocks

gtceu:coke_oven, gtceu:primitive_blast_furnace, gtceu:solid_blast_furnace, gtceu:primitive_ore_factory, gtceu:large_barrel, gtceu:large_stone_barrel, gtceu:large_farm, gtceu:steam_grinder, gtceu:steam_oven, gtceu:steam_ore_factory, gtceu:high_pressure_steam_hammer, gtceu:steam_kiln

Plan phases

• Foundation