Blast Furnace Base
| Blast Furnace Base | |
|---|---|
| |
| Requires Foundation | |
| Dimensions | |
| Width | 26 |
| Length | 26 |
| Height | 5
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The blast furnace is a modular structure used to refine Technum Ore and Xenoferrite Ore into their respective products. This machine produces Molten Technum and Molten Xenoferrite which is then processed in a Casting Machine to create the final product using the T3 recipe.
Functionality
A blast furnace doesn't function on its own but requires two additional consumable inputs and two additional buildings, primarily the difference is the need for Coked Ignium and Mineral Rocks in addition to your Technum Ore or Xenoferrite Ore (Not to be confused with rubble). This building requires hot air to maintain its temperature, hot air can be provided with the Hot Air Stove Base however this also needs an input of Air which is provided with a Air Intake Base. (Air can be moved with a small Pipe then connected to other modular buildings through a Pipe Adapter or you can use a Pipeline)
For 1 Blast Furnace.
(These ratios assume all modular structures are constructed with the maximum number of modules applied)
For all of this your blast furnace will consume 1280 ore, 640 Coked Ignium and 256 Mineral Rocks per minute and output 11520L of molten metal per minute, this equates to 3,840 items/min when processed in 96 Casting Machine. However a biproduct of Blast Furnace Slag will be produced which must be cleared for continued operation of the blast furnace. This is done by feeding it into a Chemical Processor turning it into cement which can be repurposed into concrete or deleted by feeding into it an Incinerator.
Crafting
| Inputs |  Concrete
|
600 |
|---|---|---|
 Steel Beams
|
600 | |
 Advanced Machinery Parts
|
300 | |
 Circuit Board
|
200 | |
| Outputs |  Blast Furnace Base
|
1 |
| Made By | Character | 6.67 |
 Assembler I
|
20 | |
 Assembler II
|
13.33 | |
 Assembler III
|
10 |
Notes
Products can be processed in 3 tiers to improve the amount of output while consuming the same quantity of ore. At T1 this a 1:1 ratio which uses the base "Rubble" variant of each ore and is the sole method of smelting at the start of the game. At T2 this is improved to a 1:1.5 ratio, however, it requires the additional refinement step of crushing the rubble into ore. Finally at T3 the recipe requires you to process ore inside a blast furnace for the molten variant, and cast into rods or plates in the casting machine. This results in a 1:3 ratio which, as of the current version of the game, is the best possible conversion rate.