Translations:Simple Solar Boiler/8/en

Every 256 ticks, the boiler checks to see if it can see the sun. If it can, it gives itself 8 points of fuel. During the (about) 5 seconds (8x12=96 ticks) it is active from those 8 points of fuel, its heat increases by 6 (+8-2). During the following 8 seconds, it loses 3.25 heat (-1 per 45 ticks), for a net change of ~2.75 heat per 13 seconds of daylight, or roughly 0.21 degrees per second. It therefore takes 6.3 minutes for a cold Solar Boiler to start producing Steam (temperature=20 to temperature>=100). As a Minecraft day lasts only 10 minutes, if you do not sleep, a Solar Boiler will only produce Steam for about 4 minutes out of every 20-minute full day. So in order to make Solar Boilers practical, constant exploitation the 'sleep resets time to 6am' feature of beds is necessary.