Electric Smelter – Guide

The game's Arc Furnace smelts ore one piece at a time. The Electric Smelter smelts whole stacks as fast as the power allows, then casts exactly as many ingots as you want. Custom 3D model, a display with four pages, seven LEDs.

What it does#

• Smelts whatever the Arc Furnace can: iron, copper, gold, silver, lead, nickel and silicon into ingots, biomass into charcoal. Recipes from XML mods work too.
• No alloys. For those there is the Electric Furnace T1 & T2.
• Pass-through: coal, cobalt, uranium, ice and everything else comes out the back unchanged.
• No exhaust gas, only 2 % of the power goes into the room as heat.

Requirements#

• Stationeers 0.2.6428, BepInEx 5.4.23.5, StationeersLaunchPad 1.0, see Installation
• Mod in the active mod pack
• For full power a heavy cable (100 kW) or super-heavy cable (500 kW)
• Optional: Barren Stacks (Ingot Stacks) for casts of up to 5000 ingots

Building#

Kit (Electric Smelter) from the Autolathe, tier 1: 30 iron, 20 copper, 5 gold. Pure metals only, so the smelter can be built right at the start.

How it works#

1. Connect power, turn the main switch on.
2. Put ore into the feed hopper by hand or via a chute.
3. The smelter melts it down and puts each type into its own buffer. Each buffer holds two full ingot stacks.
4. When a buffer is full, smelting pauses and the input stops accepting anything.
5. Casting happens by hand or automatically, depending on the operating mode.

Operating modes#

Cast amount#

With MENGE - (amount) and + in steps of 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000. At most one full ingot stack: so up to 5000 with Barren Stacks, otherwise 500.

Type selection#

With the SORTE (type) arrow buttons: "All" or one specific type in the buffer. With "All", GIESSEN casts every type that has reached the cast amount. Whatever has too little stays in the buffer, and the display says so.

How fast?#

The energy per ore depends on its melting temperature in the normal Furnace:

Time = ore × energy ÷ (2 × power). At 50 kW (default) it smelts 3000 iron ore in about 3.5 minutes. The Arc Furnace needs around 50 minutes for that. At 250 kW it's about 42 seconds.

Power and cable protection#

• Default 50 kW, adjustable up to 1 MW, plus 100 W base load.
• Normal cable only holds 5 kW. For full power use heavy cable (100 kW) or super-heavy cable (500 kW).
• The cable protection keeps the whole network below 95 % of the weakest cable. The smelter only takes what's left.
• The auto throttle only takes what the generators have to spare, instead of bringing the whole network to its knees.
• LEISTUNG - (power) and + on the device change the power in steps of 10 %.

Control panel#

Display (four pages, flipped with the SEITE arrow buttons)#

LEDs#

Also on the panel: main switch, MODUS (mode) button, red GIESSEN button (lights up when ready to cast) and a sight glass with glowing embers.

IC10#

Prefab StructureElektroSchmelzofen, hash -905941807.

LogicTypes#

Read the buffer of a single type: lr r0 d0 Contents HASH("Iron").

Memory (get/put)#

clr clears the statistics.

Example: 250 iron ingots at the push of a button#

Smelter on pin d0. A lever named "Eisen giessen" (cast iron) triggers the cast.

# Cast 250 iron ingots when the lever is thrown
define HEBEL 1220484876     # lever
define MENGE 250            # ingots per cast
define ADR_MENGE 0          # put: cast amount
define ADR_SORTE 1          # put: type as ingot hash
alias hebel r0
alias vorher r1
move vorher 0
start:
yield
lbn hebel HEBEL HASH("Eisen giessen") Setting 0
bnan hebel start
beq hebel vorher start
move vorher hebel
beqz hebel start
put d0 ADR_MENGE MENGE
put d0 ADR_SORTE HASH("ItemIronIngot")
s d0 Activate 1
j start

It only casts when the lever goes from 0 to 1. If not enough has been smelted yet, the display reports "too few", and the rest stays in the buffer.

Console commands#

Console with F3. Every command starts with schmelzofen and acts on the nearest smelter. Except for status and statistik, they only work on the host or server, or in single player.

Configuration#

File: BepInEx\config\dominik1199.elektroschmelzofen.cfg, or via the mod settings in LaunchPad.

Multiplayer#

New device: the server and all players need the mod. Buffers, settings and statistics are stored in the save.

Known limitations#

• No alloys, not even with a matching mix in the input.
• At most one full ingot stack per cast.
• When deconstructed, the buffer drops out as ingots. So with large buffers, don't deconstruct it in a cramped storage room.

Troubleshooting#