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Guide: Smelting & Casting

The smelting and casting processes in Angel's Smelting can be complicated. Extremely complicated. Most of the smelting chains require several additional chemicals to turn an ore into ingots, and many of the casting processes involve combining several different ingot types to obtain the final product. The mod also includes special processes for creating construction materials, such as glass and concrete. This guide will be split into several parts, and will cover each smelting and casting process in detail. Methods of obtaining the additional chemicals will be covered in other guides.

Please note: this guide assumes you are using the full suite of Bob's and Angel's mods.

The guides for each process will be added as independent posts in this thread and linked below. This collection of guides is currently complete but not up to date as of 1/12/2017.
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Aluminium Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Aluminium Ingots and Alumina from Aluminium Ore.

There are two major products of Aluminium Ore. You will want the ability to output Alumina in addition to Aluminium Ingots, because Alumina is used in several other processes as well. Alumina is always converted to Aluminium Ingots at a 1:1 ratio, and I would consider both of them to be an end product from this process. This guide will cover the process from ore through to ingots, but Alumina can be taken as an output by skipping the final smelting step.

There are three levels of smelting for aluminium. The first produces either end product from ore in a 1:1 ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second level multiplies input by 1.5, and the third level multiplies input by 2.
Aluminium Smelting Ratios
Please note: this tutorial does not include perfect-ratio designs, and is instead focused on simplicity.
Advanced Aluminium Smelting 2
Advanced Aluminium Smelting 3
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Chrome Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Chrome Ingots from Chrome Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting processes for chrome, and they are the only way to process Chrome Ore. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, and will be included because it is the simplest method of processing Chrome Ore. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Chrome Smelting Ratios
Advanced Chrome Smelting 1
Advanced Chrome Smelting 2
Advanced Chrome Smelting 3
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Cobalt Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Cobalt Ingots and Cobalt Oxide from Cobalt Ore.

There are two major products of Cobalt Ore: Cobalt Ingots and Cobalt Oxide. You will want the ability to output Cobalt Oxide in addition to Cobalt Ingots. Cobalt Oxide is always converted to Cobalt Ingots with a 1:1 ratio, and I would consider both to be an end product of the cobalt smelting process. This guide will cover the process from ore to ingots, but Cobalt Oxide can be taken as an output by skipping the final step.

There are three tiers of smelting for cobalt. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Cobalt Smelting Ratios
Advanced Cobalt Smelting 2
Advanced Cobalt Smelting 3

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Copper Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Copper Ingots from Copper Plates.

There are three tiers of smelting for copper. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Copper Smelting Ratios
Advanced Copper Smelting 2
Advanced Copper Smelting 3

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Gold Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Gold Ingots from Gold Ore.

The smelting processes for gold are some of the most complicated processes, particularly the second tier processing chain. However, the production ratios are identical to every other smelting chain, in that the first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, the second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2. All three tiers will be covered by this guide, because although gold can be obtained with a 1:1 ratio from ore without going through the smelting mod, it is required to produce some gold ingots in order to jump-start the second tier process.
Gold Smelting Ratios
Advanced Gold Smelting 1
Advanced Gold Smelting 2
Advanced Gold Smelting 3

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Iron & Steel Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Iron Ingots and Steel Ingots from Iron Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for iron. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.

Steel Ingots are produced from Iron Ingots with a 3:1 ratio.
Iron Smelting Ratios
Advanced Iron Smelting 2
Advanced Iron Smelting 3
Steel Ingots
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Lead Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Lead Ingots from Lead Plates.

There are three tiers of smelting for lead. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.

Note: I do not recommend use of the third tier of lead smelting unless you have a high rate of acid gas production from natural gas, due to the high rate of fluorine consumption and the difficulty of obtaining mass amounts of fluorine.
Lead Smelting Ratios
Advanced Lead Smelting 2
Advanced Lead Smelting 3

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Manganese Smelting

This guide will cover the process of producing Manganese Ingots from Manganese Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting processes for manganese, and they are the only way to process Manganese Ore. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, and will be included because it is the simplest method of processing Manganese Ore. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.

Note: I would not recommend using the third tier smelting process until you have significant production of Natural Gas due to the high rate of consumption of Natural Gas.
Manganese Smelting Ratios
Advanced Manganese Smelting 1
Advanced Manganese Smelting 2
Advanced Manganese Smelting 3

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Nickel Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Nickel Ingots from Nickel Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for nickel. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Nickel Smelting Ratios
Advanced Nickel Smelting 2
Advanced Nickel Smelting 3

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Silicon Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Silicon Ingots from Silicon Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for silicon. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Silicon Smelting Ratios
Advanced Silicon Smelting 2
Advanced Silicon Smelting 3

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Silver Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Silver Ingots from Silver Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for silver. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Silver Smelting Ratios
Advanced Silver Smelting 2
Advanced Silver Smelting 3

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Tin Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Tin Ingots from Tin Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for tin. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
Tin Smelting Ratios
Advanced Tin Smelting 2
Advanced Tin Smelting 3
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Titanium Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Titanium Ingots from Titanium Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for titanium. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
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Advanced Titanium Smelting 2
Advanced Titanium Smelting 3

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Tungsten Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Powdered Tungsten from Tungsten Ore.

Tungsten is unique among the base metals in that it does not have an ingot form. Instead, it is converted to powder via the process shown below, and there are further processes (which will be described in a separate guide) for transforming that powder into Tungsten Plates and various tungsten alloys.

As usual, there are three tiers of smelting for tungsten. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, and will be covered by this guide due to its complexity. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.

Note: the first-tier and third-tier processes have a high rate of consumption of Hydrofluoric Acid, while the second-tier process does not. I would recommend using the second-tier process if you are struggling to obtain large amounts of fluorine.
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Advanced Tungsten Smelting 1
Advanced Tungsten Smelting 2
Advanced Tungsten Smelting 3

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Zinc Smelting

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Zinc Ingots from Zinc Ore.

There are three tiers of smelting for zinc. The first tier has a 1:1 input to output ratio, so it will not be covered by this guide. The second tier multiplies input by 1.5, and the third tier multiplies input by 2.
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Advanced Zinc Smelting 2
Advanced Zinc Smelting 3

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Casting Overview

Where the smelting half of Angel's Smelting is incredibly varied and complex, the casting part is more simple. There is no input:output multiplication involved in casting; the amount of ingots you input is always equal to the amount of plates you get out.

Some metals can be cast into sheet coils, which can be crafted into plates. This method doesn't produce more plates than simply casting directly to plates, but it does (ignoring machine speeds) take half the time to produce the same yield of plates.
Basic Casting Process

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Multi-Ingot Casting

Certain metals (aluminium, iron, steel, and titanium) can take multiple types of ingots to increase the plate yield. The recipes all involve adding one or two extra ingot types to the Induction Furnace process to increase the amount of molten metal that is produced for use in the Casting Machine. Adding one extra ingot type will double the yield of molten metal, and adding two extra ingot types will triple the yield of molten metal.

This process is the only current use for chrome and manganese.
Multi-Ingot Aluminium Casting
Multi-Ingot Iron Casting
Multi-Ingot Steel Casting
Multi-Ingot Titanium Casting

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Sintering Tungsten

This guide will cover the process of obtaining Tungsten Ingots from Tungsten Powder.
Sintering Tungsten

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Glass & Concrete

This guide will cover the production processes for Glass, Concrete, Concrete Bricks, and Reinforced Concrete Bricks.

These materials are vital for constructing high-tier machines, so it is important to be able to mass-produce them efficiently.
Glass Production
Concrete Production

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