FOUNDRY – Quick Guide to the Blast Furnace

How to Build the Blast Furnace

Air Intake

• 1 Base
• Requires 1 control panel module
• Requires 2 vent modules (max 7)
• Optional, 1 tower module (max 1)

70 modules for max size and an output of 162,000 liters of air per min.

Pipeline from Air intake to Hot Air Stove pipeline input.

Hot Air Stove

• Base (electric or fuel powered)
• Requires 1 Tower Module (max 5)
• Requires 1 Top Part Module (max 1)
• Requires either 1 HVG input module (electric base) or 1 Conveyor input moduke (fuel base)
• Requires 1 pipeline input module (max 4)
• Requires 1 Pipeline output module (max 4)

Total of 70 modules for max size (if you don’t add the extra inputs/outputs. At max size inputs 108,000 liters air per min and outputs 108,000 liters hot air per min.

Pipeline from Hot Air Stove pipeline output to Blast Furnace pipeline input.

Blast Furnace

• Base
• Requires 1 hot air blast module (1 max)
• Requires 1 pipeline input modules (8 max)
• Requires 2 pipe output module (8 max. 1 for slag, 1 for molten ore)
• Requires 1 tower modules (5 max)
• Requires 1 hopper bottom module (1 max)
• Requires 1 hopper top module (1 max)
• Requires 1 conveyor input module (4 max, can attach 4 belts to each one)
• Requires 1 flare stack (1 max).

Total of 333 modules for max size

Input at Max Size:

• 324,000 liters of hot air per min
• 480 refined xenoferrite or technum ore per min (1.5 tier 2 belts, or a tier 3 belt)
• 360 coked ignum per min (1 tier 2 belt)
• 240 limestone per min (1.5 tier 1 belts or a tier 2 belt)

Outputs at Max Size:

• 360 liters of blast furnace slag per min.
• 3600 liters of molten xenoferrite or technum (enough to supply 16 casting machines which produce 160 xenoferrite plates or technum rods per min from 225 molten ore, 4 tier 3 belts)

At max size everything, 2 Air Inputs per 3 Hot Air Stoves per 1 Blast Furnace.

Ignium Fuel Rod Value

1 Fuel Rod takes:

• 20 Ignium Powder
• 400 Liquid Fuel

• 20 Ignium Powder = 40 MJ*
• 400 Liquid Fuel = 200 MJ**

So 240 MJ of fuel stuff gets me 100 MJ of fuel rod. That doesn’t seem right.

• *Based on 1 Ignium Ore Rubble = 10 MJ and 1 Rubble = 5 Powder, so 20/5*10 = 40.
• **Based on Portable Fuel recipe where 30 Liquid Fuel = 15 MJ, so 400/30*15 = 200.