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Reddit
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r/feedthebeast on Reddit: Mekanism Industrial Turbine water output
August 12, 2016 -

Question first: Is it currently possible to output water from the Mekanism Industrial Turbine?

Answer (thanks to u/rreeggkk): Connect the pipe to a Turbine Vent.

I'm playing with Mekanism v9.1.0.281 for Minecraft version 1.7.10. According to aidencbrady.com, this is the latest version for Mekanism on 1.7.10.

I'm under the impression that you can export water from the Turbine after steam has been processed in it. I was lead to believe this by the "Saturating Condenser" block, whose tool-tip states "A block that condenses steam by an Industrial Turbine into water. These can be placed in any arrangement above your rotational complex."

I've placed multiple Saturating Condensers above the rotational complex. The multi-block forms properly. The statistics tab of the Turbine GUI lists a positive number for max water output. When I try to extract water from the Turbine from any face or height, I'm not able to. I have tried connecting fluid export pipes from numerous mods to the Turbine Valve, but can't get water to export. Is this feature not yet implemented? Or am I possibly doing something wrong? For what it's worth, the GUI doesn't show an internal storage tank for water.

EDIT: Something I forgot to mention, is that I haven't been able to get the multi-block to form with any Saturating Condenser blocks on the exterior of the structure. So far, I've only been able to get it to form with the Saturating Condenser blocks on the interior of the structure, above the rotational complex. This means they are outside the reach of pipes. I've tried poking around to see if I can get the multi-block to form with any of them on the exterior, and I have failed to do so. I can't try connecting pipes to these blocks directly rather than a Turbine Valve. It just isn't possible.

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Mekanism Wiki
wiki.aidancbrady.com › wiki › Industrial_Turbine
Industrial Turbine - Official Mekanism Wiki
This is highly helpful to maintain a net positive of water in a fission reactor system. Note that the water will be outputted from turbine vents instead of valves, and that the water is not accumulated: if nothing is connected, the condensed water simply disappears.
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GitHub
github.com › FTBTeam › FTB-Modpack-Issues › issues › 4453
[mekanism] Turbine Vent not outputting water · Issue #4453 · FTBTeam/FTB-Modpack-Issues
December 11, 2023 - Modpack FTB Presents Direwolf20 1.20 Modpack version 1.9.1 Log Files No response Describe the bug The turbine vent block (part of the turbine multiblock) is not outputting water when it is being used with a steam/water based reactor. Ste...
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Reddit
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r/feedthebeast on Reddit: [mekanism] turbine water output
August 1, 2021 -

hey, i'm just trying stuff out here, and i've noticed that i can't actually get an industrial turbine to produce water. it's making power, and i have pipes hooked up to the vents, but there's no water coming out anywhere.

how do i make the machine actually output water? when i look at the turbine statistics, it simply says: "max water output: 0 mB/t"

i'm playing on 1.16.3, mekanism v10. i've seen someone in a tutorial do the same thing in the same version.

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GitHub
github.com › mekanism › Mekanism › issues › 7881
industrial Turbine Menu not showing water output · Issue #7881 · mekanism/Mekanism
October 4, 2023 - Issue description Whenever I open my Industrial Turbine (IT) the water output does not show for some reason Steps to reproduce No response Minecraft version 1.19.x or earlier (No longer being devel...
Author   mekanism
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/feedthebeast › mekanism turbine reactor not outputting water into fission reactor
r/feedthebeast on Reddit: Mekanism Turbine Reactor not outputting water into Fission Reactor
January 3, 2023 - I am guessing it's caused by you not using/outputting the power from the turbine, because then it stops generating power and water. ... IIRC the port you use to input steam into the turbine can also be used to output power (this might be wrong), you can void the power or build a Induction Matrix to store a lot of it and not worry ... No, they should actually set to default inputing side as well. Vents output automatically and mekanism pipes work with throughput of (total capacity of pipe mb/t) which is like 10x higher than pipe can push/pull by itself) Edit: 10x more with a single pipe block I mean, if you add more pipes in line you can multiply that by number of blocks
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Feed The Beast Wiki
ftb.fandom.com › wiki › Industrial_Turbine
Industrial Turbine - Official Feed The Beast Wiki
As long as enough pipes are used, they will be able to handle any amount of fluid, even if there are loops or dead-ends. The actual distance between input and output does not matter. Certain other mods may enable the player to simply generate sufficient amounts of water to feed their generator, which allows them to omit Saturing Condensers from the Turbine structure.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/allthemods › mekanism turbine water output with integrated tunnels
r/allthemods on Reddit: Mekanism Turbine water output with Integrated Tunnels
June 12, 2021 -

Is there a way to take water out of the turbine using integrated tunnels? The Mekanism pipes (even ultimate) don't transfer water fast enough to my boiler. I tried connecting a fluid importer to the turbine vents but it doesn't work. I've tested by putting a fluid importer on some random pipes and it works fine but only not when connected to a turbine vent. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

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Minecraft Forum
minecraftforum.net › home › minecraft forum › mapping and modding: java edition › minecraft mods › mekanism v9.4.0 - industrial turbines, thermoelectric boilers, fusion reactors!
Mekanism v9.4.0 - Industrial Turbines, Thermoelectric Boilers, Fusion Reactors! - Minecraft Mods - Mapping and Modding: Java Edition - Minecraft Forum - Minecraft Forum
July 16, 2020 - Steam them goes to turbine, producing energy and giving back water, so you can build a closed water circuit, same goes for sodium and boiler. I tested both options and it turns out that they give exactly same energy output. Is this intended?
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Mekanism Wiki
wiki.aidancbrady.com › wiki › Fission_Reactor_Tutorial
Fission Reactor Tutorial - Official Mekanism Wiki
A water cooled reactor has a heating rate of 20,000 mB of water for 1 mB of Fissile Fuel burnt. For your reactor to run smoothly, the turbine's max steam flow and max water output must be greater than the reactor's heating rate. The maximum steam flow can be seen on a turbine's main GUI, and ...
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YouTube
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Industrial Turbine 🔌 Mekanism Tutorial 1.16 🔌 English - YouTube
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Icn31fcQyip6-GCEoYZ2twUFh5YvKFTDiscord: https://discord.gg/Xuu4Wn3ay2MMOGA: https://www.mmoga.de/?ref=5003...
Published   December 4, 2021
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Mekanism Wiki
wiki.aidancbrady.com › wiki › Fission_Reactor
Fission Reactor - Official Mekanism Wiki
the Industrial Turbine must have Saturating Condensers in order to be able to condense steam into water and pipe that water back to the reactor cooling loop. The max water output from a turbine can be seen in its statistics tab. The actual value is 64000 mB of water per condenser.
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GitHub
github.com › mekanism › Mekanism › issues › 6013
Electric Pumps · Issue #6013 · mekanism/Mekanism
March 31, 2020 - I am trying to water cool the fusion reactor, and cant help but think im doing something wrong, using electric pumps im trying to feed water in. i currently have 78 pumps with 8/8 upgrades sitting above an area of 17x14 and above 60 blocks deep of source blocks of water. when in operations all the pumps show no fluid, but a pumping just a little to the reactor. i assuming something im doing is incorrect. ive also tried spacing them out when i only had 32 pumps (2 blocks inbetween each in a grid) and it seemed to produce the same amount of water as just lining them all up in rows. they are currently in 6 rows of 13 pumps. i also tried submerging them and it seemed to make no difference. Forge: 31.1.23 Mekanism: 9.9.16.408 Other relevant version: 1.15.2
Author   mekanism
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GitHub
github.com › mekanism › Mekanism › issues › 6767
Some way to condense steam into water directly. · Issue #6767 · mekanism/Mekanism
December 6, 2020 - Describe the the feature you'd like Right now, the only way to deal with steam is to run it through a turbine or vent it. Using the rotary condensentrator on the steam gives liquid steam. Describe alternatives you've considered A small multiblock structure that turns steam back into water. Perhaps have some kind of fan system that requires power to condense the steam faster. Maybe making the rotary condensentrator actually output water.
Author   mekanism
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/feedthebeast › [1.12.2] mekanism turbine questions
r/feedthebeast on Reddit: [1.12.2] Mekanism Turbine Questions
February 1, 2021 -

(Playing a custom 1.12.2 pack, almost all configs are at default aside from recipe changes)

I'm attempting to run a Mekanism Industrial Turbine off of the steam output from an Extreme Reactor, and I'm running into some issues. My ER, throttled by the control rods, should be outputting roughly 5 buckets of steam per tick--nothing special, but just enough that it is a pain to have to supply 5b/t of water to it without dedicating a small pumping area, as my pack has no one-block wonder solutions to infinite water. Naturally, I thought I'd just dump the water from the Industrial Turbine back into the reactor, but it seems that this doesn't work. From my fiddling, it appears that the turbine only outputs water at the same rate as the "flow rate" (as in, the rate of steam entering the turbine) regardless of how much steam is actually in the turbine or that rate at which it is being consumed.

Am I correct in thinking this, and do I then need to have some form of buffer so that the steam flowing from the reactor to the turbine is limited to 5b/t or whatever arbitrary number (as with infinite throughput, any amount of water I put in the reactor will instantly vaporize into steam and travel to the turbine, boosting the flowrate for a single tick only and thus ruining the loop) or is there something else that I am doing incorrectly?

I can give more info if needed, but I'm very tired from looking at this setup for now and can't really think about what else people might need :)

Edit: Right, so I did a quick test in a creative world, mirroring my actual reactor from my main save (though I doubt that matters, since I was just measuring water in vs water out with different pipes).

Super Laminar Fluiducts, which have infinite throughput (when something outputs into them, which I believe both the reactor coolant port and the turbine's vent do) turned 28k mb of water into a measly 9970mb.

Adding in a buffer tank to this, using a resonant servo to pull the steam from that into the turbine, changed 9970mb > 10370mb.

EnderIO fluid conduits resulted in a return of 11014mb of water.

By this quick and simple test I'm led to believe that the turbine does only regard the flow rate when deciding how much it is working--how do I actually use it, then, without capping the input rate? Does it absolutely require the use of a Mekanism fusion reactor to make the turbine useful? I was hoping to avoid building multiple ER turbines and using much more space, but that seems as though it might be the only actual route to go.

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CraftersLand
forum.craftersland.net › tutorials and guides › modded tutorials › stoneblock 2 modpack
[Mekanism Power] ~270 mil RF/t - StoneBlock 2 Modpack - CraftersLand - A Minecraft Community
January 24, 2023 - Hello to all! I want to showcase a method to get a lot of power with little impact on space and server (at least much friendly than a rainbow generator setup). What you need to make this run at max efficiency and max size: 1. Mods: Mekanism, Actually Additions (or any mod that can facilitate infi...
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Feed The Beast Wiki
ftb.fandom.com › wiki › Fission_Reactor_(Mekanism)
Fission Reactor (Mekanism) - Official Feed The Beast Wiki
1 month ago - Sodium, however, needs to be fed into a boiler, where it heats up Water into steam for the turbine. The boiler produces regular sodium, which can be fed back into the reactor. Of course, if your fission reactor is larger, the water and sodium that you need will be more.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/mekanism › industrial turbine filling with water instantly and not working. help!
r/Mekanism on Reddit: Industrial Turbine filling with water instantly and not working. Help!
June 7, 2025 -

My industrial turbine was working perfectly until it just spontaneously filled with what I presume is water (I have zero saturating condensers) and stops working. Anyone know what the problem is?

  1. It was working fine before. 2. You can't pump out the water out. 3. Doesn't work with any setting (i.e. dumping excess steam or idle. 4. Adding saturating condensers didn't help.

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You're maxed on energy in the turbine. Ironically, you have too much energy. Make an induction matrix.
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You have to take the power it generates out. Mekanism reactors don't keep producing energy when their output buffer is full (actually a lot of mods do this). They treat energy like any other object, you have to take the completed product OUT before it will make any more. Think of it like a furnace making baked potatoes, once you have 64 baked potatoes in the out slot, the furnace stops consuming potatoes and fuel. So your turbine is "done" making power, so it has stopped consuming steam which eventually filled up. Which will lead to your nuclear plant filling up with steam it produces, BUT it will continue to consume fuel and produce heat, and since it can't consume water anymore to make more steam to cool off (because steam is full), it overheats and explodes. That's how important taking the energy out and making sure you have adequate storage for any you produce is. Mekanism Induction Matrix multiblock, energy cubes, batteries, figure out some way to store the energy. Generally, your grid should be set up like: Energy Producers -> Energy Storage -> Energy Consumers. Whenever possible never power a thing directly from a reactor (of any mod). Your energy transporting cables should be separated into two completely independent networks. Those that delivery power from the reactors to the battery, and those that deliver power from the battery to the consumers.
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Feed The Beast
forum.feed-the-beast.com › forums › feed the beast › mods › mod discussion
How to produce a lot of steam? | Feed The Beast - FTB Forum
April 20, 2018 - More specifically, it can "contain" 50 buckets per tick, and therefore cannot output more than that. The mod auther said he was going to make the value configurable but he never did (nor did the Extreme Reactors guys) Good luck with the Mek fusion version. Fair warning, I've heard that it can ...