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Gizogin

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Magma wheel?
« on: September 19, 2011, 05:29:04 pm »
Does anyone know if it is possible to make a magma-powered water wheel?  I imagine it would have to be made of nether-cap, or else require a custom reaction to make metal logs.
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2011, 05:31:11 pm »
Magma doesn't flow in the manner water does, and will not power a waterwheel. Sorry mate, I've wanted to do this as well.

I mean, how dorfy would it be to have a MAGMAwheel?! Power your magma pumps with magma to magma the magmaless!
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2011, 05:34:06 pm »
At least it's easy to create a relatively small dwarf dihydrogen monoxide reactor to pump magma close to magma pools.
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2011, 07:21:51 pm »
Or you could just use a volcano.
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2011, 07:36:56 pm »
I belive that even with wood that can withstand the temperature, it will not be powered by magma.
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2011, 10:15:01 pm »
Now I want magma-powered steam wheels.
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2011, 12:44:03 am »
Why am I not surprised that a topic was posted with "Magma" in it, and Necro posted 2 minutes and 7 seconds later.

"Magma senses tingling! Must post!"
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Re: Magma wheel?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2011, 02:31:42 am »
Magma won't work to power the wheel, though that would be extremely awesome. Wish you could mod that in...
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