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Author Topic: using charcoal in magma smelter?  (Read 592 times)

DimmurWyrd

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using charcoal in magma smelter?
« on: October 21, 2006, 06:27:00 am »
I thought the entire reason to make magma smelters was to avoid needing charcoal anymore yet my metalsmith is dragging coal in anyway :P
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Mechanoid

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Re: using charcoal in magma smelter?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2006, 07:07:00 am »
Are you sure you wern't producing steel at the time? The production of steel always takes a minimum of 1 charcoal /coke (the refined version of coal -- not the drug or drink) to produce pig iron /steel.

Also, it may be that the mouse selector was actually over a regular smelter and not the lava smelter.


However, if it really was a magma smelter using charcoal in the production of anything other then the iron group (iron /pig iron /steel) then it's definitely a bug.

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Re: using charcoal in magma smelter?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2006, 01:46:00 pm »
Well, or if you're making coal bars.  Then you need raw coal, obviously.
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Re: using charcoal in magma smelter?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2006, 10:29:00 am »
He said "charcoal", not coke.
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Re: using charcoal in magma smelter?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2006, 02:26:00 pm »
It was making steel I believe so I guess that's right :/ considering how little carbon it takes to make steel it feels kinda excessive but ah well hehe.
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