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Working steam train coal fueling station
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Working steam train coal fueling station

Description
This is a single working coal loader for steam trains. It uses coal to run your steam trains! It stores 350 tons of coal for use by your trains. I may add a version with a conveyor as well, but I haven't decided yet. I am not too happy with the texture of the coal loader, so I may try to adjust it. I would love some help with texturing it!

Both of the structures are based off real buildings found in Poland. The coal loader was designed by an American company, and built in many cities in Poland and other countries. Please see my historic water tower mod for details about the water tower.


IMPORTANT:
This uses an exploit, a bug left in the game. You do NOT have to manually install anything, but each time you build one, you do have to either deliver a tiny bit of fuel, or buy 0.2 tons of fuel. The fuel will not be visible, but will appear under "purchase resources." No vehicle will load this as fuel, but it will tell vehicles that fuel is available, otherwise they will not come.

This means diesel trans can also use coal, so you should be careful and design the lines so that trains don't fuel with the wrong resource. There is no way for me to get around this issue given the limited options we have as modders.

You can also load coal into trucks or trains at this station. A vehicle can take the fuel if you have it set to load fuel as a cargo item, so don't do that!


EXTRA INFO:
I doubt the devs will fix this just to break the mod, but I do hope they will add official support, especially since they are adding renewable energy, and they just need to make a few adjustments so this is officially a coal loader. It would also make sense to make coal trains take about 5 times the amount of coal for balancing (efficiency and specific energy). I will upload a version that balances the resources and does not use the exploit later this week.

I would appreciate it if you asked the devs to consider adding this to the base game, or at least the code, so we can add more steam trains and loaders without using exploits.

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Comrade Sky  [author] 20 Sep, 2022 @ 2:09am 
In general, most of this stuff is fair use, anyway. I might be able to convince the mods to remove something, but it would be hard to do something that could result in a legitimate lawsuit/legal issues.
Comrade Sky  [author] 20 Sep, 2022 @ 2:07am 
I put CC BY or CC BY NC at the bottom of every item of the workshop. You can google CC BY and learn more about different creative common licenses and how copyright works. I put CC BY here so it is easier for people to know what rights they have with my mods. CC BY means you can do almost anything with it as long as you atribute it to me, the original creator. Even the devs could put it in the base game if they wanted with CC BY copyright. They would only have to contact me for permission/licensing if it was CC BY NC.
Comrade Sky  [author] 20 Sep, 2022 @ 1:05am 
It is CC BY so you can ask other modders to reupload it wih water requirements. I have no idea when Iĺl eb able to work on these things again
Comrade Sky  [author] 22 May, 2022 @ 12:17pm 
It is CC BY, so nothing is stopping anyone from doing that. I need at least another month before I'll be able to do anything myself.
Crackhood 22 May, 2022 @ 2:04am 
It'd be a good idea to make this use water, since that's in the game now. Don't know how possible that is though. Either way thanks for the mods.
Comrade Sky  [author] 13 Oct, 2021 @ 3:38am 
Yes, Vuyek, I see someone made a horse feeder with the same exploit haha

Vuyek 4 Oct, 2021 @ 10:21pm 
awesome, works the same exploit as "horse feeder".

splendid work, am impressed
HornetGit 26 May, 2021 @ 9:55pm 
Finaly mod which i waiting for. I knew it is posible
Comrade Sky  [author] 20 Mar, 2021 @ 4:02am 
I use the BR52. I know some others have/are being released now. Just check "Most Recent" on the workshop regularly, and search "BR52."
Minister of Wolves 16 Mar, 2021 @ 12:15am 
can you recommend a steam loco that would actually use this mod? I really want to try this and steam locos, but am having a hard time finding them. Thanks :)