Smelter not working for Iron

[Sulphur Lantern]

Smelter Iron Ingot recipe showing at O. Won't pick up Ore from belt but when change recipe to Magnets. Everything works. My Copper setup is working perfect but the smelters just will not pick up Iron Ore no matter what I do.

[Sulphur Lantern]

It's showing the ore in the Ingot recipe as zero. All of a sudden it has no value and that's why I think the sorters are ignoring it on the belt. How do I fix this.

[robfilrhijar]

Sorters have filters , maybe check that. Also try placing a smelter that isn't a copy paste of another.

[Rekal]

Are you using mods that have messed with the recipe? I can't think of a reason the recipe would change in the base game.

If it's not a mod thing the only reason in base game that a sorter would not pick up Iron Ore for the Ingot recipe but then pick it up for the Magnet recipe is if you didn't have an output sorter setup properly. The Ingots fill up the machine because they're not being removed so it doesn't pick up any more ore. Switching to the magnet recipe empties out the smelter so it starts picking up ore again until it fills up on magnets.

Rob has the right idea; check your sorters. Your output sorter either has a filter on it to only output magnets or is turned the wrong way. Easiest to just delete it and place it back down a fresh version.

[Sulphur Lantern]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Are you using mods that have messed with the recipe? I can't think of a reason the recipe would change in the base game.

If it's not a mod thing the only reason in base game that a sorter would not pick up Iron Ore for the Ingot recipe but then pick it up for the Magnet recipe is if you didn't have an output sorter setup properly. The Ingots fill up the machine because they're not being removed so it doesn't pick up any more ore. Switching to the magnet recipe empties out the smelter so it starts picking up ore again until it fills up on magnets.

Rob has the right idea; check your sorters. Your output sorter either has a filter on it to only output magnets or is turned the wrong way. Easiest to just delete it and place it back down a fresh version.

I switch to magnet and it works perfectly and shows ore needed as 1 when I switch to Iron Ingots to goes back to zero and nothing gets picked up. Not using any mods either :/

[josmith7]

What happens if you manually add iron ore when it's set to iron ingots?
(And screenshots might help us work out what's going wrong)

[Rekal]

Originally posted by Sulphur Lantern:

I switch to magnet and it works perfectly and shows ore needed as 1 when I switch to Iron Ingots to goes back to zero and nothing gets picked up. Not using any mods either :/

If there's no mods involved, you might have a corrupted file. To rule that out, right click on Dyson Sphere Program in your steam library. Open up the properties and on the Local Files tab run the "Verify Integrity of Game Files" check. It's an automated check of all the files that should be there and if there is any corruption in said files.

With all the data transfer that happens downloading and unpacking games it wouldn't be unheard of to have a bit flipped in the code somewhere. It can also happen on hard drives or in overclocked memory that's a tad unstable. Even a power spike or dip from the wall outlet can cause errors. Most times there's error correction that'll catch it and fix it or the game just won't work right which makes it really obvious. However if the bit that's flipped changes a recipe's input from 1 to 0, both are valid numbers so the game doesn't see a problem.

Let us know if that helps. Blank recipes are definitely not a normal occurrence.

[Sulphur Lantern]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Originally posted by Sulphur Lantern:

I switch to magnet and it works perfectly and shows ore needed as 1 when I switch to Iron Ingots to goes back to zero and nothing gets picked up. Not using any mods either :/

If there's no mods involved, you might have a corrupted file. To rule that out, right click on Dyson Sphere Program in your steam library. Open up the properties and on the Local Files tab run the "Verify Integrity of Game Files" check. It's an automated check of all the files that should be there and if there is any corruption in said files.

With all the data transfer that happens downloading and unpacking games it wouldn't be unheard of to have a bit flipped in the code somewhere. It can also happen on hard drives or in overclocked memory that's a tad unstable. Even a power spike or dip from the wall outlet can cause errors. Most times there's error correction that'll catch it and fix it or the game just won't work right which makes it really obvious. However if the bit that's flipped changes a recipe's input from 1 to 0, both are valid numbers so the game doesn't see a problem.

Let us know if that helps. Blank recipes are definitely not a normal occurrence.

Loaded my save and everything worked perfect. Then when I tried to make red cubes it's now happening with my oil refinery with the oil being a blank. No Mods and I am in Sandbox mode. When I come back from work i'm going to load a save file from before I used the blueprint for the red cubes and see what happens.

[Inkotron]

i’ve seen this - often. delete the sorter and replace.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Are you certain you chose the IRON ingot recipe and not the SILICON bar recipe? I'm color deficient and have a similar problem as they look almost identical. One just goes to the left and one to the right.

For the record, Iron bars are to the left of copper bars, and silicon is to the right of them in the menu.

[Sulphur Lantern]

I just started from scratch. Everything is working fine so far.

[lacunaserenity]

I have this same issue with iron ore not being picked up by the smelter. No sorter or pilers being used, just lvl1 proliferated iron ore. Power not an issue. I destroyed and rebuilt the smelters but they refuse to pick up the iron ore. I can switch to magnets and it works fine.
I also cant manually drop the ore in the smelter either. No mods, just vanilla game. I literally cannot forge iron ingots unless I manually do them in the fabricator.
EDIT: I saved and reloaded as well and it did nothing.