SS Yorkshire (Semi-fixed)

What does that mean? Well, basically, the ship is currently half-fixed. She can be fired up and driven around once again, but the sink switch is still broken.

The reason for this, is that while steam engines are workable once again, sink switches built in the conventional manner with hidden hatches, are not. Water flow is extremely slow due to the recent pressure and flow changes, even if the flooding compartment is a near perfect vacuum. You can see this easily when you look into Celtic's sink switch and see the jankiest, ugliest, and messiest system for something that's supposed to fairly simple.

What all this means is that while I'll be fixing the ship's boilers now, I'm going to wait until pressure and flow are updated to function much better to fix the sink switches.



(Fictional)
Speeding across the Atlantic at a record 20 knots, the SS Yorkshire was a twin screw express liner as well as the fastest ship in the world. She sped along for a while but only a couple of years into service she fell victim to an act of sabotage. On one voyage, she was carrying a large amount of gold as well as some very wealthy passengers when an explosion suddenly occurred in her cargo hold and she started sinking. She eventually broke in two with a large explosion and sank around 4 PM on a calm sunny day.


1: Load up the world that you want to spawn it in
2: go to the pause menu
3: Click "addon editor"
4: Click "load"
5: Click "Workshop"
6: Click "SS Yorkshire (Sinkable)"
7: Click "test location" on one of the four spawning locations


-Top speed: 20 Knots
-Accommodations for:
32 Saloon class
66 Steerage
26 Crew
-6 Boilers with auto-coaling
-2 Simulated triple expansion steam engines
-1 Sink switch
-8 Lifeboats
-2 Steam driven anchors/windlasses
-16 bilge pumps
-2 Steam driven generators
-2 Condensers
-2 Large cargo holds
-2 Refillable fresh water tanks
-Full interior


1: Turn the condenser pumps on in the generator room behind the engine room
2: Go to the boiler rooms
3: Light boiler
4: Turn the damper all the way up
5: Repeat on all 6 boilers
6: Once pressure is up, you should be good to go


The sink switch is located in the wheelhouse, as a locked button with a key switch next to it.
One of the crates in the forward cargo hold will explode and cause the ship to go down by the head. The ship will break in half but ONLY if you keep the boilers on and let them explode. Keeping all the watertight doors closed is recommended.
The sinking does use parts from the weapons DLC, but it is not required for them to work. In fact, keeping weapons disabled will result in a much slower sinking.


-The generators will start up automatically once there is steam pressure.
-The reason for only one sink switch is because I wanted to make a much more refined sinking as well as cut down on lag by having less hatches for water to get in.
-The ship uses fully functional custom made propellers to move.
-Speed is directly linked to boiler pressure. The higher the pressure, the faster you'll go.
-Can be operated on low physics setting, with nearly all testing being on it.

DO NOT HAVE INFINITE FUEL ON. THE BOILERS WILL EXPLODE.

Inspired by the SS City of New York

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