What about electric furnaces? Because they don't take coal as fuel, will inserters put coal into the recipe slot?

I poked around in the lua data available in the Factorio install, and I don't see anything controlling the behavior of inserters there.

The only stuff I found in the API is the "insert ...

That was it, Angel. The rest of the recipes all have single outputs, and I hadn't noticed until I started debugging my module that Factorio acts that way with single-output recipes.

*sigh*

Thanks again!

I don't have an answer to your direct question, but a thought; Why not add a "grinder" building which takes coal and electricity and produces coal granules, which being a custom item can be placed into the furnace to turn into coke?

I'm curious what you will use coke for. Is it just a more powerful ...

So, interestingly enough, the recipes actually work; you can set them and they'll produce the crude oil, syngas, petroleum gas, etc. They just don't show the results in the hover popover.

I tried that and, alas, it didn't work.

What's up with the a/b in front of the braces? Are those supposed to increment? a, b, c, d? Or are they all something else?

Okay, so I got that fixed. Thanks Angel! Almost everything is working...

...except that my Fischer-Tropsch recipes all have no products, except one, and I don't know what I'm missing.

Once you learn advanced-oil-processing, you gain access to the F-T tech; you research that and your chemical ...

[Edit note: I fixed this first problem (thanks, Angel!) but it's lead to a second problem.]

Howdy.

I'm working on a mod some friends of mine have been asking for, allowing Coal to be gassified and converted into petroleum gas, crude-oil, and some useful intermediaries. Right now the values for ...