Do you want to know how to build smelting setup in Factorio? Factorio’s first steps can be a bit daunting for beginners due to the large amount of information to deal with. This includes a large amount of numeric, scale, and scale data in the game. In this article, we will discuss how to build the smelting setup in Factorio that will be there for you throughout the game.
How to build Smelting setup in Factorio
Know where to build smelting setup
In Factorio, when preparing your foundry facility layout, it is essential to know where to build your main bus structure and where you want it to go. You should keep your consolidation area close to where the bus starts, with plenty of space available for expansion.
At the beginning of the game, you should also try to have a full iron and bronze belt. At the same time, you should try to leave room for about four belts from each one. This creates a total of eight consolidated bases within the main base. You probably won’t need the extra space later, as you’ll probably want to bring cast iron to the outposts.
Remember that you need coal and ore to operate the smelters. Therefore, it is ideal to place the network as close to these natural resources as possible. This is reinforced by the fact that your reserves of iron for crafting belts are quite scarce in the early game.
Importance of scale for fusion configuration in Factorio
To understand what the ratios mean in this game, consider this example. If you want to create a solid yellow belt, look at this fact first. The yellow belt is capable of moving fifteen items per second, while the stone furnace is capable of generating 0.3125 plates per second. Divide 15 by 0.3125 and you get 48 – the number of quads you need to make a full range. Fortunately, for copper and iron, the ratio of ore to plate is 1:1. So you can basically put your belt on and take it off at the same time!
Also, be sure to check out the Factorio Cheat Sheet website. You will notice a certain trend in the number of ovens. For example, the steel furnace is twice as fast as the stone furnace, while the red belt is twice as fast as the yellow one. So you can use the stone furnace and yellow belt, and also switch to the steel furnace and red belt. You should be able to do this without changing anything related to the design.
How do you go step by step with your design?
Basically, there are several templates that you can access in the game, you have to choose the one that best suits your taste. Here we present a design that will closely resemble JDPlays.
In this design, there will be two furnace columns. There will be 24 pcs on either side of the big central exit belt. First, order the first casting, then, after leaving some space, place an exit mat going in the direction of the main bus that you have planned.
Leave another tile space, then add the second line of the quartet. The food mat will run outside the oven you just placed. Make sure to leave a brick space between the belt and the four legs, and make sure it’s facing the same direction as your exit harness.
The next part is very interesting – the belt level dividers – First, leave four spaces between the delimiters and four spaces at the beginning of the network. Place two dividers facing each other at a distance between the bricks.
Then, put the straps out, feed your straps. Splitters provide only half of each band, due to their close location. This allows you to easily have fuel on one side and ore on the other.
Then, you can add the fuel filler belt. We do not add ore to this belt because a relatively smaller amount of fuel is needed to smelt it. Although a single belt of golden coal can power 666 furnaces (equivalent to about 14 grids), the other side requires a full copper or iron belt. For this belt you will need a splitter and run underground. Well, underground and under feeder belts on the sides of your array.
Then, add inserts by setting one inlet and one outlet for each oven. Now, move up and down your network to automatically add small poles.
About the ore and coal in Factorio
Before continuing, you also need ore. You will need thirty power miners (sixty when you upgrade to red belt) to power your grid. Proceed to set up miners to fill both sides of the belt. Selecting your miner with deconstruction or blueprint and pressing Q to undo after the count has increased will allow you to count them pretty easily.
Remember that miners working at the end of your field will see their ore depleting much faster than those working in the middle of the field. So be sure to put extra miners on the belt. For coal you will need about 2.2 coal miners per metallurgical network. You can even include a full belt after you produce enough diggers.
Additional steel mold
Did you notice that there is still one more empty cell in the furnace network? It is for you to add steel panels. Once you do, they will fit in with the rest of the design. Like the others, this net also smelts the ore into sheet steel.
The Direct Feed Network is ideal for Steel, as it takes five times longer than Plate Iron to melt and also requires five Iron Plates. You will need five such nets to make a full belt.
How to upgrade
When you switch to Steel Furnace, they will run at twice the original speed but consume the same amount of fuel as Stone Furnace. It is also advisable to upgrade to a red belt as soon as possible. As you do this, remember to add thirty miners and a red belt from the ore region to feed them. However, you do not have to upgrade the output inserter.
Plan Variations
Keeping tables for different supply belts in your Blueprints cache can be useful for useful setups where ore is introduced and sheet belts are placed at the exit stone.
You will need two stone shards for each stone brick you create. Therefore, the corresponding fused networks should be half the length. However, if you don’t side-eat, you’ll need two full Stone Belts to get the Brick Belt.
About Factorio Electric Furnace
Although players are used to producing grids that can hold 3×3 Electric Furnace at the start of the game, keep in mind that they are as fast as Steel Furnace and if using solid fuel like coal, also save more in terms of conservation energy.
You should only choose an electric furnace if you are using solar for your facility, working where fuel is running low, or aiming for an end-of-game modular system using productivity mods speed card. Otherwise, we recommend using a steel oven. They are efficient enough and you won’t run out of coals.
Wrapping Up
That was it on how to build Smelting setup in Factorio. I hope you found this article helpful. If you did, let us know in the comments section down below.
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