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I can't seem to melt steel objects
« on: April 22, 2011, 03:41:37 am »

the items are marked for melting, urist goes and gets them, and brings them to the magma smelter, and they cease to exist on my stocks menu, yet I still have 0 steel bars.

am i doing something wrong or is there something fundamental im not understanding here?
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Re: I can't seem to melt steel objects
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 04:01:04 am »

Melting only gives back a fraction of the material that the item was made out of. You will need to melt down between 2-10 steel items to get a steel bar.
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Re: I can't seem to melt steel objects
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 04:18:14 am »

Make sure all melting is done at one smelter, look here for all melting information.
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Re: I can't seem to melt steel objects
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 04:26:32 am »

If you want to be sure that melting works buy a metal cage and melt it - it will give one bar. Most other things need to accumulate some metal in a smelter before it adds to one bar.
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