r/sunlessskies

(Made in Create: Aeronautics; shader - Solas)

First prototype of an end-sea locomotive. As it turns out, the end-sea is rather similar (look-wise, at least) to the world of Sunless Skies. The build is entirely survival-friendly, which is always a priority for me. I rather bad at making good design, hence the mediocre look.

Unfortunately, as it would seem, the end-sea has a ton of drag/resistance that does not really show up anywhere, even with flank-power to engines the locomotive barely reaches 8m/s, and fuel-sustainable speed is only 2-3m/s. Still working on this, I suppose.

More technical details, for the interested ones:

This build does not use levitite at all (just in case if it wasn't clear) - it simply floats in the end-sea!

The boiler section containes basic steam engine, lava generators (see propulsion lava gens), and piping. It uses 4 small rocket engines for turning - (almost) like in the original game!

As said above, I really wasn't able to speed it up above 8m/s, not even speaking about the fact that in practice, can't go above 3m/s due to insane fuel consumption of said engines. And more lava generators would mean bigger size, more mass, and so on. While I could try to use proppelers instead for more economic thrust, it would also be quite ugly and, you know, really uncool!

There is another theoretical solution for this which would also make the locomotive work in overworld too, but it is more complex, levitite-hungry, and is in need of quite some testing. Besides, isn't this the coolest type of vehicle one could possibly build in Aeronautics?