Main article: Guide
Smelting Process | |
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Levels: | 1-60 |
Author: | Joschilein8343389 |
Contents
Introduction[]
This Guide gives you an overview over Furnaces and their use.
Furnace Strategy[]
- You can use a
Furnace, an
Improved Furnace and
Improved Furnace (Kiln)
- Recipes, burn times and Thrall Benefits are the same in every type of furnace, the only thing that differs is the number of slots in its inventory.
- A bigger inventory is better to reduce a possible downtime of the furnace because you can put more stacks of stuff into it. But if you struggle in early and mid game to upgrade to Improved Furnaces, then better stay with standard Furnaces and just build more of them.
- At least one furnace must have a
Glass Flask Mold to be able to produce
Glass Flasks. Put every
Glass and
Crystal into it to collect a suply of Glass Flasks (for
Water Orb/Orbs and
Purified Water/Food).
- This furnace could also be the Multi-Purpose-Furnace, where you also put in other stuff like
Silverstone or
Goldstone or
Star Metal Ore.
- For a long time you might have more furnaces than Smelter-Thralls. As you get your Thralls put them in order of their level into the furnaces, the same order you want to fill your furnaces with ressources. Then you get your products faster and with a lower amount of burned fuel. In times with a high demand you can also let the empty or low level thralled furnaces run, if fuel or ressources are low you just use the most efficient thralled furnaces.
- Don't put every possible ressource into a furnace because you might not get out the product you want the most. Candidates for this unwanted use are
Steelfire (turns
Ironstone into
Steel Bar instead of just
Iron Bar),
Brimstone (turns
Ironstone or
Iron Bar into
Hardened Steel Bar instead of just
Steel Bar) and
Stone Consolidant (turns
Stone into
Hardened Brick instead of just
Brick).
- It is up to you if you use only a specific recipe for a specific furnace or if you switch recipes according to your demand.
Composite Obsidian can only be made in the Volcanic Forge, which only exists once on the whole map and has no slot for a thrall. If you want to make it, you have to take at least a lot
Steel Bar with you and collect
Obsidian on the way or take it with you from previous Volcano-Trips. 10
Obsidian and 1
Steel Bar take 10 seconds to make 1
Composite Obsidian.
Fuel Strategy[]
- In the beginning every fuel is good enough. Most likely you have to use
Wood.
- Put only one type of fuel into one furnace. One type of fuel is picked and the furnace will stop after it is consumed without continuing with the next type of fuel. You then would have to press start again. Therefore additional types of fuel only take away the slots in the furnace. If you have a mixed supply of fuels then put one type in the first furnace, the next type into the next etc.
- Some fuels have higher priorities and should not be used as fuel in the furnace:
- Only
Bark can be used as fuel in the
Tannery /
Improved Tannery (to make
Hide) and in the
Dryer (to make
Dry Wood). It would be a waste to use it for other purposes.
Branches is used in a lot of recipes. Some have a high demand of it like
Spike and various types of Arrows. Better save the Branches for theses things. It also has a very bad burntime.
Plant Fiber is used in a lot of recipes and will go in masses into
Twines,
Gruel,
Spice or
Compost. It also has a very bad burntime.
Wood is a acceptable but possibly lacking fuel for the first steps into the game. Most of the first building blocks (like
Sandstone Foundation or
Wooden Box - until you can make
Large Chests) and the workstations need relatively huge chunks of wood. Later a lot of it will go into
Dry Wood and
Shaped Wood.
- Only
- Some fuels are better to use for smelting:
Coal: In the Beginning Coal is not as present as you would need it and with bad tools you would have trouble to make it your primary fuel. Later it can be collected in larger quantities and is a possible fuel. A possible bottleneck could be
Tar. If your playstyle involves the constant use of Skinning Knifes you might not have trouble making Tar. But if you have trouble, you could use Coal with a bad 25:1-Ratio to make Tar.
Dry Wood: It is used to make
Insulated Wood, but what is left could be used as an excellent fuel.
Oil: It is recomended to have some Oil left for other purposes (like
Weapon Damage Kit), but that could stay in a
Fluid Press. Every additional Oil could be used as fuel. Oil can be massproduced with
Fish Traps. For one Oil you need 1
Unappetizing Fish or 5
Savory Fish or 10
Exotic Fish. One Fish Trap won't bring you very far, but what about 10, 50 or 100 Traps? You don't have to run around the world to collect stuff, just collect the slowly but automaticly catched fishs, put them into an array of Fluid Presses and have as much Oil as you want. These three types of Fish can also be cooked into
Fish Strips, as food for yourself and your Thralls, which allows you to constantly use a Skinning Knife instead of a Cleaver on animal corps.
Possible Fuels[]
Fuel | Burn Time (in seconds) | ||||
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No Thrall | T1 & T2 | T3 & T4 | |||
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20.0 | 25.0 | 30.0 | ||
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5.0 | 6.25 | 7.5 | ||
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35.0 | 43.75 | 52.5 | ||
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48.0 | 60.0 | 72.0 | ||
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48.0 | 60.0 | 72.0 | ||
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2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | ||
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10.0 | 12.5 | 15.0 |
Chest Organization[]
At first storage space is rare and ressources will be stored everywhere, sometimes even furnaces and other workstations can be used as a temporarly storage. Later storage rooms can be a valid strategy where you have a lot of chests to store everything. To reduce travel time and distance a few chests around your smelting area can save you a lot of time. It is worth to place furnaces and chests early on in an organized way, Wall Signs can help.
n | Content | I/I/O | for Recipe(s) | Comment |
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1 | Fuel (like ![]() |
Input | - | Designated items for the Smelting Process according to the fuel strategy (see above). |
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Input | 10 ![]() ![]() |
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Input | 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Input | 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Input | 6 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Input | see ![]() ![]() |
Brimstone is a bottleneck. In addition to the Smelting Process it is also needed in huge quantities to make ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Input | 2 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Input | see ![]() |
With the right Tool Black Ice usually comes in big quantities |
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Intermediate / Output | see ![]() |
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Output | - | |
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Intermediate / Output | see ![]() |
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Intermediate / Output | 2 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Output | - | |
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Output | - | |
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Output | - |
1 If a Glass Flask Mold is present in the Furnace