Fireman Assistant

FiremanAssist

Fireman Assist Mod for Derail Valley

Entering a supported loco will add a fireman to that loco. You can also request a fireman with the comm radio, and finally, coupling a supported loco to a train that already has a fireman onboard will add a fireman to that loco (no limit). Fireman state is not persisted across save games currently but can be reinitialized quickly after a load.

Current Features

• []Water Management from minimum protection to full management

  []Slope-aware water management - understand the current water angle to interpret what it's seeing in the water glass.

  []Fire Management from minimum protection to full management

  []Throttle and Cutoff aware fire management - will allow the fire to cool if the engine is idling - keeping the pressure around 12-13 bar. Ramps up coal usage as steam demand increases - but requires more than a momentary burst of usage to do so, so still good for shunting

  []Comm Radio control to advise fireman to start or stop firing - Also shows current state, including out of water.

  []Cylinder Cock control (useful when using MU mods to run multiple steam units)

  []Each locomotive is managed independently

  []Low Tender Water auto shutdown - prevents automatically adding coal when the tender is low on water - thus protecting against getting into an uncontrolled fire state with not enough water to add to the boiler.

  []NEW Dismissable fireman - Fireman can be dismissed, and does not get added automatically to an existing loco

  []NEW Multiple firing levels selectable through the radio.

  []NEW Persistent fire state between saves

  Water Management Options

  Water management in 4 levels, selectable through UMM settings window:

  []None - turns off, useful if you want to disable the management temporarily without disabling the mod, say for a realistic save

  []No Explosions - Ensures you never let the water get too low. Can still overfill and damage your cylinders, but will never underfill so long as you have water available to add (and the injector can keep up, those grade transitions can get intense).

  []Over/Underfill protection - Ensures you never let water get too low or too high. Might allow overfill if going downhill for an extended period of time, as it uses the same information the user has (the water glass)

  [*]Full management - Does its best to provide the optimum injector setting