How long do hot air balloons take to heat up?

[icy coyote]

I know that they take quite a while to, but I'm just trying to figure out how long I should wait before trying to fix it. And about that, any tips for balloon troubleshooting?

[thin aurora]

You might need more rotational power to the ballooneer

[icy coyote]

What is the minimum?

[thin aurora]

Depends on how much you need to lift

I think

[icy coyote]

Well, yeah

But for a ballooner to work at all

[thin aurora]

Or you might need to re-form the balloon by right-clicking the ballooneer with a brass hand

[icy coyote]

You have to do that..?

[thin aurora]

Depends

Idk how exactly it works either

Is it consuming fuel?

You can see with the engineer goggles

[icy coyote]

It's not...

For some reason

I right clicked the ballooners with brass hands and they're still not consuming fuel

The balloon is airtight. No diagonals either

[thin aurora]

I had a bug were the ballooneer was working without consuming fuel

What's your rotational power source?

[icy coyote]

A combustion engine (I know how original)

The input speed is 128 rpm if that's what you're interested in

Ballooners don't seem to have a stress impact either

I'm sure that they have rotation coming in through the bottom

Does rotation direction matter?

Now it's consuming negative fuel..?

@thin aurora you might want to see this

I figured it out

There were two stairs holding it down

Not a part of the airship

Now I'm at Y=2500 and falling rapidly

It's going into the stratosphere, falling, and going back into the stratosphere again and again

I managed to go into the cockpit and turn it off

[thin aurora]

Not super relevant but iirc multiple ballooneers for one ballooneer don't stack. You have to section your balloon to make use of multiple

[icy coyote]

Thanks