Now that factorio 1 0 has released i felt it s time to get back in the game to fix the old designs and maybe make something new.
Factorio electric furnace steel setup.
The stack compression ratio and the belt compression ratio.
Steel furnace is comparable to electric furnace in terms of smelt speed however the latter can make use of modules as well as electricity to further enhance the furnace s capabilities.
This array will smelt ore into plates into steel.
However it is slightly larger than the other two tiers of furnaces.
Description this mod adds an electric boiler electric versions of the stone and steel furnaces which can fast replace the existing ones and level 2 and 3 versions of the electric furnace with faster smelting speeds and more module slots.
This setup will apply many different belts or inserters with electric poles.
As its name implies it uses electricity rather than fuel to operate removing the need for a fuel belt.
The setup is very similar.
There are two ratios to consider.
Luckily steel and electric furnaces both have the same smelting speed so the ratios will be the same for both and on top of that their speed is exactly double that of a stone furnace so 2 so we can just half all the above numbers.
You can t find any remarkable difference to the stone furnace.
Although players used to produce arrays that could harbor 3 3 electric furnaces in the early days of the game remember that they just as fast as steel furnaces and if you use solid fuel material like coal are also more economical in terms of conserving energy.
The stack compression ratio is how many stacks of input it takes to create one stack of output.
The steel column also needs to be 24 furnaces long.
Compared to the stone furnace it smelts at double the speed and therefore is a more efficient use of the given fuel.
Keep in mind that you will need 5 arrays like this one in order to produce a full belt.
It s possible for you to learn much more about how to excellently use your 14 14 grid for the steel furnace.
Steel takes 5 times the amount of time to smelt as iron plates and requires 5 iron plates so a direct feed array is perfect.
New research to unlock the higher tiers of electric furnace is also added.
It occupies a 3 3 area instead of a 2 2 area.
For example iron plate has a stack ratio of 2 1 because it takes 200 iron ore 2 stacks of 100.
The electric furnace smelts items at the same speed as a steel furnace and also has two slots for modules.
This guide began with a single furnace setup i wished to share but then i refined a few other ideas to be presentable.
The steel furnace is the second tier of furnaces.
Steel furnace midgame in factorio steam game the melting plays an important role.
