Name: Smelting
Description: This mod leaves the stock smelting process intact, and adds an unpacked production cycle that can be tuned and improved more easily than stock.
License: MIT
Version: 0.1.5
Release: 2016-11-23
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.14.20 (steam)
Category: Crafting
Tags: ores,plates
Download-Url:
- Smelting_0.1.5.zip
- (1.28 MiB) Downloaded 277 times
Long Description
This mod leaves the stock smelting process intact, and adds an unpacked production cycle that can be tuned and improved more easily than stock. Specifically; smelting, casting, and stamping are separated into three separate machines.
First, Iron and Copper ore are placed in a Smelting Furnace, which batch-boils them down into molten iron and molten copper. Two additional levels of batch processing can be researched, which improves the time-per-unit of this process.
The molten material can then flow into a Casting Press, to be made into rolls of iron, copper, or steel, or Extruded into a thick copper cable wound around a Spool. These Rolls and Cables come in three size tiers, each of which represents an improvement in final-product density.
Finally, the Rolls and Cables can be inserted into a Stamping Press, which cuts the roll into iron plates, copper plates, steel plates, or copper wire. When copper wire is recovered, the spool it was wound about is also recovered and can be re-used in the Casting Press.
The unpacking of these three processes which normally happen invisibly inside a stock furnace (stone, steel, or electric) has two effects. First, it gives the options of adding modules to all three stages. Productivity modules are enabled on the Smelting Furnace (allowing more efficient extraction from ore), and all other types are enabled on all three machines.
Next, it makes the entire production pipeline electric. As described by the previous maintainer, this arrangement uses more electricity, but produces more material per time unit than the stock production pipelines. On top of the speed benefit, it also means smelting and casting can be done at your resource extraction sites, and then the more compact Rolls and Cables can be transported closer to where they are used before being unpacked into usable materials.
First, Iron and Copper ore are placed in a Smelting Furnace, which batch-boils them down into molten iron and molten copper. Two additional levels of batch processing can be researched, which improves the time-per-unit of this process.
The molten material can then flow into a Casting Press, to be made into rolls of iron, copper, or steel, or Extruded into a thick copper cable wound around a Spool. These Rolls and Cables come in three size tiers, each of which represents an improvement in final-product density.
Finally, the Rolls and Cables can be inserted into a Stamping Press, which cuts the roll into iron plates, copper plates, steel plates, or copper wire. When copper wire is recovered, the spool it was wound about is also recovered and can be re-used in the Casting Press.
The unpacking of these three processes which normally happen invisibly inside a stock furnace (stone, steel, or electric) has two effects. First, it gives the options of adding modules to all three stages. Productivity modules are enabled on the Smelting Furnace (allowing more efficient extraction from ore), and all other types are enabled on all three machines.
Next, it makes the entire production pipeline electric. As described by the previous maintainer, this arrangement uses more electricity, but produces more material per time unit than the stock production pipelines. On top of the speed benefit, it also means smelting and casting can be done at your resource extraction sites, and then the more compact Rolls and Cables can be transported closer to where they are used before being unpacked into usable materials.
Cross-Functionality and Compatibility
* None at present. If you have a mod which you want to seamlessly integrate with mine when both are installed, such as adding your fluid containers to the list of temperature-affected fluid entities, let me know!
Version and Upgrade Notes
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Version: 0.1.5
Updated to work in Factorio v0.14+ (tested in 0.14.20). This required simply adding connection-point sprites and a couple info.json tweaks.
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Version: 0.1.4
Bugfix release. The hidden, development-debug-only Smelting UI was conflicting with other mods which put UIs in the "top" frame. Fixed.
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Version: 0.1.3
Bugfix release. Some code that should have run only during on_load was being run during on_init.
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Version: 0.1.2
* Improved Research; plastic spool and copper cable/wire jobs are now an extra research item to carry out. Costs rebalanced to suit.
* Added reasonable "default" temperatures to molten copper and iron, vaguely reflective of their IRL melting points.
* Rebalanced power usage slightly; moved some of the load off smelters, put it onto casting presses and (in near-future) heated storage tanks.
* Superhot fluids slowly damage stock storage tanks and pumps. Use the provided Heated Storage Tank and Industrial Pump (both unlocked with new tech, "Hot Fluid Handling").
* Added Heated Storage Tank. THIS CURRENTLY LACKS A POWER REQUIREMENT, but will have one in future iterations.
* Added Industrial Pump. This has four times the pumping rate of small pumps, and a similarly higher power usage, but is also heat-resistant like the heated storage tank.
KNOWN BUGS
* For some reason productivity modules in the smelting furnace are not working, because as far as I can tell fluids can't be "intermediate products". I'd like to fix this, but I'm fine with it if I can't. If there's demand, I'll look into making efficiency-increasing research as a late-game option (e.g. -2% ore needed per fluid unit per level, 5 or so levels of upgrade).
* Heated Storage Tanks and Industrial Pumps are not fast-replaceable over their standard parts. Still looking into why.
UPGRADE NOTES
* Only tanks and pumps placed AFTER installing or upgrading to v0.1.2 will be damaged by high fluid temperature. You'll need to mine and re-place existing tanks and pumps before they are affected.
* Stock storage tanks are considered safe for fluids up to 200 degrees, and stock small pumps up to 500; heated storage tanks and industrial pumps are safe up to 2,000 degrees.
STILL TODO
* Replace Assembler-2 borrowed graphics for Casting Press.
* Replace Yuoki Industries borrowed graphics for Furnace and Press.
* Replace borrowed Research and Item icons.
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Version 0.1.1
* Fixed potentially-confusing Smelting Furnace and Casting Press liquid outputs/inputs (now always visible and always affected by rotation, instead of being invisible until a recipe is selected)
* Fixed Research; re-ordered technologies, marked upgrades correctly, locked recipes until discovered by technology tree.
* Fixed order of machine recipes in UI and Research screen.
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Version 0.1.0
* Proper English localization, including disambiguation of several steps.
* Presses now auto-select their stamping/cutting job based on input.
* Fixed high-volume press jobs to actually work!
* Improved recipe and item icons. Now uses Green/Red/Blue progression instead of 1/2/3 numerals.
* Fixed Smelter/Casting Press/Stamping Press construction recipes to use sensible ingredients, instead of 40/20/20 iron and 0/0/40 copper wire.
STILL TODO
* Replace Base Assembler-2 borrowed graphics used for Casting Press.
* Replace Yuoki Industries borrowed graphics used for Smelting Furnace and Stamping Press.
UPGRADE NOTES
* Wooden spools were removed; this mod's power use is too high to work until the oil economy is getting started anyways, so only Plastic spools are available.
* Smelting Furnace supports all module types; Casting Press and Stamping Press do not support Productivity.
* Smelter/Casting Press/Stamping Press recipes MAY NOT update correctly if you're upgrading from monty's 0.0.1. I have no fix to propose beyond starting a new factory if you're upgrading to my 0.1.x line.
Version: 0.1.5
Updated to work in Factorio v0.14+ (tested in 0.14.20). This required simply adding connection-point sprites and a couple info.json tweaks.
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Version: 0.1.4
Bugfix release. The hidden, development-debug-only Smelting UI was conflicting with other mods which put UIs in the "top" frame. Fixed.
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Version: 0.1.3
Bugfix release. Some code that should have run only during on_load was being run during on_init.
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Version: 0.1.2
* Improved Research; plastic spool and copper cable/wire jobs are now an extra research item to carry out. Costs rebalanced to suit.
* Added reasonable "default" temperatures to molten copper and iron, vaguely reflective of their IRL melting points.
* Rebalanced power usage slightly; moved some of the load off smelters, put it onto casting presses and (in near-future) heated storage tanks.
* Superhot fluids slowly damage stock storage tanks and pumps. Use the provided Heated Storage Tank and Industrial Pump (both unlocked with new tech, "Hot Fluid Handling").
* Added Heated Storage Tank. THIS CURRENTLY LACKS A POWER REQUIREMENT, but will have one in future iterations.
* Added Industrial Pump. This has four times the pumping rate of small pumps, and a similarly higher power usage, but is also heat-resistant like the heated storage tank.
KNOWN BUGS
* For some reason productivity modules in the smelting furnace are not working, because as far as I can tell fluids can't be "intermediate products". I'd like to fix this, but I'm fine with it if I can't. If there's demand, I'll look into making efficiency-increasing research as a late-game option (e.g. -2% ore needed per fluid unit per level, 5 or so levels of upgrade).
* Heated Storage Tanks and Industrial Pumps are not fast-replaceable over their standard parts. Still looking into why.
UPGRADE NOTES
* Only tanks and pumps placed AFTER installing or upgrading to v0.1.2 will be damaged by high fluid temperature. You'll need to mine and re-place existing tanks and pumps before they are affected.
* Stock storage tanks are considered safe for fluids up to 200 degrees, and stock small pumps up to 500; heated storage tanks and industrial pumps are safe up to 2,000 degrees.
STILL TODO
* Replace Assembler-2 borrowed graphics for Casting Press.
* Replace Yuoki Industries borrowed graphics for Furnace and Press.
* Replace borrowed Research and Item icons.
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Version 0.1.1
* Fixed potentially-confusing Smelting Furnace and Casting Press liquid outputs/inputs (now always visible and always affected by rotation, instead of being invisible until a recipe is selected)
* Fixed Research; re-ordered technologies, marked upgrades correctly, locked recipes until discovered by technology tree.
* Fixed order of machine recipes in UI and Research screen.
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Version 0.1.0
* Proper English localization, including disambiguation of several steps.
* Presses now auto-select their stamping/cutting job based on input.
* Fixed high-volume press jobs to actually work!
* Improved recipe and item icons. Now uses Green/Red/Blue progression instead of 1/2/3 numerals.
* Fixed Smelter/Casting Press/Stamping Press construction recipes to use sensible ingredients, instead of 40/20/20 iron and 0/0/40 copper wire.
STILL TODO
* Replace Base Assembler-2 borrowed graphics used for Casting Press.
* Replace Yuoki Industries borrowed graphics used for Smelting Furnace and Stamping Press.
UPGRADE NOTES
* Wooden spools were removed; this mod's power use is too high to work until the oil economy is getting started anyways, so only Plastic spools are available.
* Smelting Furnace supports all module types; Casting Press and Stamping Press do not support Productivity.
* Smelter/Casting Press/Stamping Press recipes MAY NOT update correctly if you're upgrading from monty's 0.0.1. I have no fix to propose beyond starting a new factory if you're upgrading to my 0.1.x line.
Screenshots
In this album for now, because good thumbnail composition is hard.
Comparison vs. Stock
Coming soon!
Past Versions
- Smelting_0.1.4.zip
- (1.29 MiB) Downloaded 337 times
- Smelting_0.1.3.zip
- (1.29 MiB) Downloaded 272 times
- Smelting_0.1.1.zip
- (1.05 MiB) Downloaded 298 times
