The Steam Dryer has exactly one job: pressing Amethelis into Dry Amethelis. Its recipe is a vertical sandwich — Amethelis on top, steam piped beneath — and it burns a small amount of that steam with every petal it processes.
Because the inputs arrive from opposite sides, the Steam Dryer rewards vertical thinking more than any other early processing building. Each step ends with a checkpoint so you know the sandwich is working before you scale it.
The Dryer is a vertical sandwich: steam must press against the bottom face. Route your steam line underneath so vapor reaches every machine in the row.
Checkpoint: steam visibly touches the base of each Dryer.
Amethelis arrives on the top face. Both contacts have to happen at the machine itself — steam below and petals above — because neither input works alone.
Checkpoint: petals sit against the top of the Dryer.
With both faces fed, the Dryer presses petals into Dry Amethelis. Each conversion eats a little of the steam, so the reaction does not run for free.
Checkpoint: Dry Amethelis comes out while steam keeps flowing beneath.
A busy row quietly drains a boiler, so size steam generation for the drying load, not just for turbines. Every Flower head carries 4 Amethelis, so feed petals to match the steam you can actually produce.
Checkpoint: neither petals nor steam backs up; the row runs steady.
Despite the name, the Steam Dryer refuses Wet Sand and Wet Seeds — it accepts only Amethelis. If you wanted to un-wet a material, this is not the machine for it, and no arrangement of steam will change that.
Every petal dried eats a small amount of steam. A busy Dryer row quietly drains a boiler, so size your steam generation for the drying load, not just for turbines and other headline consumers.