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hi there,

i have a problem with my furnace creation...

i want a automatic steel production like u can see in attachements

-- my qustion: why don't transport the grabber the coat from the right to the left furnace? for all other creations it's ok - but not for this one?

thanks for watching and espacially for anwering

They only handle output items, not input items.

The rule of thumb is, if a building has dedicated "output" slots, inserters can only pick items from those slots.

thanks for this but whats with "heater" ? in 0.14 i bearly remember that there it was fine? like u see in pic

The burner inserters have no output slot, just one input slot. and as there is no dedicated output slot, any inserter can take coal from the only slot .

ah ok ^^ thanks for your help <3

Make a 3 space gap between iron and steel furnaces. Run coal down the middle using only underground belt. In the gaps between underground belt use long handed inserters to transfer iron to steel.

-- =long handed
u = underground
| = iron ore

1 -- 1 |
1 u 1 |
2 u 2 |
2 -- 2 |
3 -- 3 |
3 u 3 |
4 u 4 |
4 -- 4 |

Personally, I feel integrated iron/steel smelting lines aren't worth it.

Nowadays I simply build two standard smelter lines - one for iron, another for steel - and place iron output belt in reversed direction, then just use it as steel line's input.
It takes slightly more space, but this way I can easily re-profile the smelters whenever necessary without locking myself into specific recipes.

Shokubai wrote:Make a 3 space gap between iron and steel furnaces. Run coal down the middle using only underground belt. In the gaps between underground belt use long handed inserters to transfer iron to steel.

-- =long handed
u = underground
| = iron ore

1 -- 1 |
1 u 1 |
2 u 2 |
2 -- 2 |
3 -- 3 |
3 u 3 |
4 u 4 |
4 -- 4 |

hey sorry for the late answer...i wasn't able to play a while^^
i tried you setup but i'm not sure about functionality... you need for both-sided setup:
2x21

i need for the one bellow:
5x11

here is some i thought about the last minuetes after i saw you version^^ what is you opinion about that? what would you prefer?

Lav wrote:Personally, I feel integrated iron/steel smelting lines aren't worth it.

Nowadays I simply build two standard smelter lines - one for iron, another for steel - and place iron output belt in reversed direction, then just use it as steel line's input.

Smelting lines

It takes slightly more space, but this way I can easily re-profile the smelters whenever necessary without locking myself into specific recipes.

yeah i know it's a lot easier ... but i want it this way: ore goes in - steel comes out^^ not ore goes in - iron comes out and go to steel after that...i want less space for that^^ if you know what i mean...i think i wouldn't if i read this...