Arc Furnace

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Large Ship / Station

Basic Refinery

 

Components

Required

 

 

Steel Plate

20

 

 

Computer

10

 

Motor

10

 

Construction Component

20

 

Steel Plate

100

 

 

Mass (kg):

0

 

Integrity:

0

 

Build time (seconds):

40

 

Refine Time (base seconds):

0.65

 

Material Efficiency (%):

0.7

 

Active power consumption (MW):

0.33

 

Idle Power Consumption (MW):

0.001

 

Storage Capacity (L):

4000 (Ore), 4000 (Ingots)

 

Airtight:

Yes - all orientations

 

Power Consumer Group:

Factory

 

Dimensions (W x H x D):

1 x 2 x 1

 

PCU Cost:

75

Overview

The Arc Furnace is similar to its larger counterpart the Refinery in that it refines Ores into Ingots. However, it is limited to only refining Iron Ore, Nickel Ore, and Cobalt Ore. The arc furnace is 8x smaller, is slightly more efficient for 12.5% in refining these ores, requires far fewer Components to build, refines at 1.2x the speed, and costs 40% less power to use.

However, unlike the larger and more expensive Refinery, it has no attachment ports allowing it to be upgraded. Despite its inherent speed benefits, a fully specialized Refinery is superior to the Arc Furnace for all specializations except physical space and resources to construct.

Usage

Operating the Arc Furnace is similar to the Refinery. A simple example of its use is below:

Example Tutorial

Build/place your Arc Furnace anywhere you like If connected to a Conveyor Network, the furnace will automatically draw Ores from another inventory. However, for this example we will be placing the ores in manually. While close to the large conveyor port door; open the inventory. 175px) Drag your ore from your inventory on the left, and place inside the Arc Furnace. It will now begin processing automatically.

Control Panel

Control Panel
Options	Comments
Toggle block	Turns the device on, or off.
Name	You can enter in your own custom name in the text box
Show on HUD	If there is an Antenna attached to the same grid, this device will display its position on the players HUD
Use Conveyor System	If "on" allows the arc furnace to automatically draw iron ore from other inventories connected to it

Refining Rates (v1.080)

Raw	Input Raw		Output Ingots		Ingots
	Kg/hour	sec/kg	Kg/hour	sec/kg
Scrap Metal	144000	0.03	103680	0.03	Iron Ingot
Iron Ore	115200	0.03	72576	0.05
Nickel Ore	2880	1.25	1037	3.47	Nickel Ingot
Cobalt Ore	1440	2.50	389	9.26	Cobalt Ingot

Based on game data file content.

Ore consumed per second = Refinery Speed * Blueprint Input / Blueprint Processing Time.

Ingots produced per second = Refinery Speed * Refinery Material Efficiency * Blueprint Output / Blueprint Processing Time.

Media

Related Items

• Refinery

Programming

• Action List - Arc Furnace

Update History

Update 01.057	Fixed mirroring of arc furnace
Update 01.052	Arc furnace can now refine more metals, the Arc Furnace was only capable of refining Iron Ore previously
Update 01.048	Fixed cannot stack items in production queue
Hotfix 01.045.013	Fixed 'Arc furnace' building progress models Changed name of Blast furnace to “Arc furnace”
Update 01.045	Arc Furnace’ (Previously Blast furnace) introduced