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[cooky173]

I figure, smelting is smelting, you get one piece of magnetite and heat it, you get one iron bar, so if you smelt 5 at once, you get 5 bars.

I know smelting ores is hardcoded, but looking at the steel making reaction I thought I could mod that to work with ores.

I changed the matgloss for the iron ores, I included the new matgloss for magnetite below..(the ore in my current fortress.)

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[MATGLOSS_STONE:MAGNETITE]
[NAME:magnetite][COLOR:0:7:1][TILE:'~']
[ENVIRONMENT:SEDIMENTARY:CLUSTER:100]
[ITEM_SYMBOL:'*']
[REACTION_CLASS:IRON_ORE]
[METAL_ORE:IRON:100]
[SOLID_DENSITY:5046]
[VALUE:8]The reaction class IRON_ORE is something I made up myself - based off the FLUX class
I then created a new reaction

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[REACTION:LARGE_SCALE_IRON]
[NAME:make 5 iron bars]
[SMELTER]
[REAGENT:5:REACTION_CLASS:IRON_ORE]
[PRODUCT:100:5:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]
[FUEL]
Anyone see anything wrong with this? Or is it just one of those things that doesn't work? If no-one can see a problem I might try regening

[Footkerchief]

Can you just make up reaction classes?  That's kind of awesome if so, I've never tried it.  You don't have to regen to test it, you can edit those reagents/products into an existing reaction instead.

[cooky173]

I think you can, let me check...
Hmm, no, I gave obsidian the reaction class "BENNY", and modified the pig iron reaction to require BENNY instead of flux....no joy.


Hmm, give iron the flux class, and write a reaction using 5 flux to make 5 iron, or 10, or whatever.

[Sean Mirrsen]

There's no FLUX tag in the executable, only REACTION_CLASS, so I think it should work. I don't remember what the results of my experiments were.

[Footkerchief]

There is, actually, but it's kind of ambiguous.

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...
Connectivity Overflow
Connectivity Placement Overflow
Update Connectivity Placement Overflow
FLUX
  Choose Fortress Location 
Local
Region
World
...

Actually, now that I think about it, that's probably for the site finder.

[Marlowe]

Only problem I can think of is that the smelter reactions seem to be able to keep track of only four bars at once.

[Impaler[WrG]]

You can make your own 'smelting' reaction that use specific stones and create bars of one or more metals, essentially duplicating and bypassing the reactions that are automatically created for any mineral that is labeled as an Ore.