Okay.

well since iron ore can only become iron ingots and it's not really useful for anything else it'd be really nice if we could automate that step as well so let's see what we have available to us in the production tab we have a basic smelter what does that do uh smelts or into ingots ingots can be further processed into new things that sounds really good so let's build a basic smelter so shift left click

We have the little shortcut for it now on top left.

We want one of those.

Eight iron plates, eight iron rods, and four cements.

All right, well, this guy's taking a lot.

Oh, we can see that this is full now.

It can't actually mine anymore.

So let's take that out so we can keep mining.

Automated construction has been unlocked.

That means our ship has been sent.

So we can go back to our trading post now.

Let's pick a new thing.

Let's research conveyor splitters, mergers, and containers.

That sounds really good.

Okay, so that requires 25 iron rods and 25 iron plates.

I'll take care of that in a bit.

Let's carry on with the smelter.

Alrighty, we have the iron plates and rods that we need, but we need cement.

What does cement require?

It requires stone.

Okay, I know that there's stone right there.

So I'm going to go dig some of that up, make some cement as well.

Okay, now that we have the cement, I'm going to build a smelter in front of our miner.

And you can see on the hologram that there's like an input and output.

The green box on the left with an arrow pointing in is input.

Orange with the arrow pointing out is output.

I'm going to face the input towards the miner.

Like so.

Right click to get out of the menu.

And then I'm going to build a conveyor belt, which we just researched.

But they require iron plates.

So I'm going to make some iron plates first.

So we have iron plates now.

So I'm going to build a conveyor belt.

You can see it snaps to the output of the miner.

So I'll click on that.

And we can build it wherever we want.

But let's build it directly to the input here.

There we are.

Hey, look.

We got iron ore.

It's doing it.

Go, go, go, go, go.

Just an efficiency thing that I've picked up along the way.

Anyway, okay, we can see that the iron ore is going in.

Let's check the configuration of the smelter and see what's going on.

We can see iron ore coming in.

We've got iron ingots coming out.

I can take these ingots even and put them in my menu, in my inventories rather.

Cool.

There's also a recipes tab here.

So we can make iron ingots or we can make copper ingots.

So it's important that if you're going to make a smelter over by the copper deposit to automate copper production, you can put a miner on the copper as well, of course, and the stone.

If you put a miner on the copper and then connect that to a smelter, you want to configure the smelter to receive copper ore to create copper ingots, otherwise it won't make it.

Yeah, cool.

So now we have the smelter and now we've learned power.