How to Build a Turbine – Extreme Reactors Wiki (1.21.1)

A turbine turns steam into energy. The steam drives the rotor blades, and the spinning rotor makes energy in the induction coil around the shaft. Like the reactor, the turbine assembles itself once its box follows the rules. The one below is 5 × 5 × 5 — small, but complete.

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Build the 5 Ã— 5 floor and the walls of Turbine Housing. The middle of the floor is the Turbine Rotor Bearing.
Three Turbine Rotor Shafts stand on the bearing, up the middle of the turbine.
Four Turbine Rotor Blades on the lowest shaft block, one on each side. The steam drives them.
Above the blades, a ring of eight iron blocks around each of the two upper shaft blocks forms the induction coil that turns the rotor's motion into energy.
In the walls: the Turbine Controller (north), a Passive Forge Fluid Port (west) for the steam in and the water out, a Passive Forge Energy Power Tap (east) and Turbine Glass (south).
Close the top with housing; the turbine assembles. Feed it steam, switch it on and set the coils to engaged on the controller's screen.

Materials 9 kinds · 121 items

Turbine Housing (Basic)step 1×93
Turbine Rotor Bearing (Basic)step 1×1
Turbine Rotor Shaft (Basic)step 2×3
Turbine Rotor Blade (Basic)step 3×4
Block of Ironstep 4×16
Turbine Controller (Basic)step 5×1
Turbine Passive Forge Fluid Port (Basic)step 5×1
Turbine Glass (Basic)step 5×1
Turbine Passive Forge Energy Power Tap (Basic)step 5×1

Layer planLayer 1 is the bottom · north is up · 5 × 5 × 5 blocks

The layer plan appears with the 3D view.

Housing, a rotor bearing in the floor, three shaft blocks, four blades and two rings of iron blocks as the coil.Textures, models and item names © ZeroNoRyouki and the Extreme Reactors contributors (originally Big Reactors by Erogenous Beef). Vanilla textures © Mojang.

The parts

The outside is Turbine Housing (Basic) (Turbine Housing); walls may hold Turbine Glass (Basic).
A Turbine Rotor Bearing (Basic) in one wall (here in the middle of the floor) holds the rotor. Turbine Rotor Shaft (Basic)s run from it straight into the turbine.
Turbine Rotor Blade (Basic)s sit on the shaft, here four on the lowest shaft block.
Above the blades, blocks of metal around the shaft form the coil — here two rings of eight iron blocks.
A Turbine Controller (Basic), a Turbine Passive Forge Fluid Port (Basic) (steam in, water out) and a Turbine Passive Forge Energy Power Tap (Basic) in the walls.

On our test server the turbine assembled with its 4 blades. We put 4,000 mB of steam into the fluid port and switched it on with the coils engaged (both on the controller's screen): 20 ticks later the rotor was turning and the power tap held energy. With so little steam that is only a start — a turbine needs a steady supply, for example from an active reactor.

Note In the default settings a turbine may be up to 32 blocks wide, long and high.

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Crafting the parts

The housing is made with Cyanite, the spent fuel of a reactor — build a reactor first (Getting Started with Extreme Reactors).

4 × any Iron Ingot + 4 × any Cyanite Ingot + any Block of Redstone → Turbine Housing (Basic)

4 × Turbine Housing (Basic) + Redstone Comparator + 2 × any Cyanite Block + any Diamond + any Redstone Dust → Turbine Controller (Basic)

4 × any Iron Ingot + 2 × Block of Redstone + 2 × any Block of Iron → Turbine Rotor Bearing (Basic)

4 × any Iron Ingot + any Cyanite Ingot → Turbine Rotor Shaft (Basic)

2 × any Iron Ingot + any Cyanite Ingot → Turbine Rotor Blade (Basic)

4 × Turbine Housing (Basic) + 4 × Water Bucket + Lava Bucket → Turbine Passive Forge Fluid Port (Basic)

4 × Turbine Housing (Basic) + 4 × Redstone Dust + Block of Redstone → Turbine Passive Forge Energy Power Tap (Basic)

2 × any Glass (#c:glass_blocks) + Turbine Housing (Basic) → Turbine Glass (Basic)

Textures, models and item names © ZeroNoRyouki and the Extreme Reactors contributors (originally Big Reactors by Erogenous Beef).

Recipes, names and numbers are read from the mod files of Extreme Reactors 1.21.1-2.4.28 for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge). Not affiliated with the mod authors, Mojang or Microsoft.