Ore Smelter
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Ore Smelter |
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About
This smelter is required to smelt the ore you mine into bars of iron.
Production of iron bars is not based on chance, instead there is a counter which, when filled to 100%, will produce a bar. Each Ore in the smelter will produce 2% of a bar on it's own, but the addition of Lime will cause EACH piece of Ore to produce an extra +1%. 25 ore in a smelter will generate 50% of a bar, but 24 ore and 1 lime will generate 72%, a substantial improvement.
Iron = Ore * (2 + Lime). (Expressed as a percentage)
Incomplete bars are carried over to the next smelting. Although a 72% batch won't give you a Bar of Iron, the second time you run the smelter filled that way, you will get one full Bar and 44% left over (72% + 72% = 144%).
The smelter must be filled with 15 charcoal in order to be lit. The smelter will then burn for 40 minutes.
Ore that could not be melted into a bar of iron will be left as Dross, which can be used as building material where one would normally need to use Stone, or as a low-value fertilizer.
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