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 5.5 minutes out of every 20-minute full day (3.7 minutes during the day, 1.8 minutes cooling after nightfall). So in order to make Solar Boilers practical, constant exploitation the 'sleep resets time to 6am' feature of beds is necessary.