November 8th, 2018 - Smelting Iron

November 8th, 2018

Smelting Iron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Dznt1OG-0&t=163

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  1. Jace

    So before the iron ore comes out, let's grab the conveyor belt.

    Down the bottom, I've got a hot bar and I've got conveyor belts on three.

    So I just press three.

    I grab that there and I place it in here and we get a conveyor belt and all the iron ore is just spilling out.

    How exciting.

    Okay, cool.

    So now this is a smelter and in the smelter we need to smelt ore into ingots and we have to choose a recipe because not always smelters can do more than just iron ingots.

    They can only just do that here in this example.

    So I'm just going to click that recipe and it shows that it needs iron ore.

    It'll turn into iron ingots, but nothing's happening.

    In fact, it's not even taking anything in.

    Why?

    Oh, because of power.

    Fancy that, it needs power.

    Oh, didn't see that coming.

    Alright, so let's hook it up to the biomass burner.

    While I can't seem to make a power line, that's because buildings only have one attachment point, so we have to get rid of that.

    And see, now I can connect again.

    but you can see that there's like this big power pole hologram here.

    If I look at the ground, it's there as well.

    And what that'll do is it'll build a power pole and connect it with the power line.

    And the cool thing about power poles is they have up to four connections.

    This one does.

    And so from here, I can just build power lines out to the miner and then another one out to the smelter.

    And now the smelter is working.

    One thing to consider though, is that there's only one more output on this power pole.

    So what I like to do is I like to just build out another power pole

    Now that one's full, but we have three more there.

    So we might as well just hook everything up, I guess, for now, now that we've talked about power poles.

    I'll have to drag one more out here, put one on that one, and I have a building over here as well.

    So we should be good for power for this demonstration now.