Furnace Problems

[Forvet]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've watched like four youtube walkthroughs, nothing seems to work.

I have a Furnace set up, it's output is connected to pipes, a valve, and a passive vent.

I have the thing powered,through I'm not sure if it needs it. I add 1 Oxite, 2 Volitiles. I get no response immediately save for a minor bump up to 700 KPA. Then? I hit the button to turn it on and add the 12 Iron Ore... the entire system starts spewing superheated air but it accepts the Iron ore. I add Coal, it continues spewing hot gasses out of the top, which has remained open. The temperature and pressure refuses to rise it glows a very dull white, and now if I eject the ore I added it just gives me a reagent lump.

I have been struggling with this damn thing for four hours now. I do not know what I'm doing wrong, I've watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=841hACTkXDM

Atleast four times now.

[Mykepatch]

Sorry, I'm new to the game and did not smelt steel yet.
But I read in the getting started ingame help that we need one part of iron for 3 parts of coal, which is the opposite of this video... I don't quite understand.
Who is mistakening... or has it changed?

[liquidream_gt]

Well 3 Iron - 1 Coal and you need to vent out all gasses like to be 0 pa Pressure 0 k temp before to start new smelting.
To get 100 Steel you have to add 75 iron ores and 25 Coal Pressure dont matter just need to be in range of temp which is above 600k

[Dani]

You need to put a valve on the output.
1. close the valve
2. add 1 oxite and 2 volatiles and activate furnace (press button)
3. add the ores needed to melt steel (or anything else)
4. open output valve and wait for pressure to drop to 0
5. close valve
6. add 1 oxite and 2 volatiles and activate furnace
7. wait for pressure and temperature to rise
8. point on the window of furnace and wait for message "will smelt ... ingots" and pull lever

If you wanna smelt more start filling ores now and skip 1-3 for next smelting, otheriwse just open valve to vent the pressure in the furnace.

You could also use the canister from your welder with a pressure regulator set to 50kPa.

1. close output valve
2. activate pressure regulator and wait for furnace to reach 50kPa
3. activate furnace and start filling ores
4. open output valve and vent all until all pressure is gone
5. close output valve
6. activate pressure regulator and wait for furnace to reach 50kPa
7. activate furnace
8. wait for pressure and temperature to rise
9. pull lever

If you only smelt a few ores you might be able to get your ingots right after filling the furnace and avoid having to fire it up twice.

PS : might be a good idea to keep the gas from smelting in a large tank for filtering.

[Forvet]

Originally posted by Dani:

You need to put a valve on the output.
1. close the valve
2. add 1 oxite and 2 volatiles and activate furnace (press button)
3. add the ores needed to melt steel (or anything else)
4. open output valve and wait for pressure to drop to 0
5. close valve
6. add 1 oxite and 2 volatiles and activate furnace
7. wait for pressure and temperature to rise
8. point on the window of furnace and wait for message "will smelt ... ingots" and pull lever

If you wanna smelt more start filling ores now and skip 1-3 for next smelting, otheriwse just open valve to vent the pressure in the furnace.

You could also use the canister from your welder with a pressure regulator set to 50kPa.

1. close output valve
2. activate pressure regulator and wait for furnace to reach 50kPa
3. activate furnace and start filling ores
4. open output valve and vent all until all pressure is gone
5. close output valve
6. activate pressure regulator and wait for furnace to reach 50kPa
7. activate furnace
8. wait for pressure and temperature to rise
9. pull lever

If you only smelt a few ores you might be able to get your ingots right after filling the furnace and avoid having to fire it up twice.

PS : might be a good idea to keep the gas from smelting in a large tank for filtering.

I tried everything you suggested, this was the result;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1652922378

and this is what it said when I looked at it;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1652922567

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This is how my build looks:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1652922610

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1652922378

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1652922507

I wanted a solid wall between myself and the vent to keep myself safe from the exhaust fumes when I opened the valve. That didn't work, as I almost fried myself the first time I turned this thing on and the furnace itself started venting on me.

I'm at a loss, I don't know what to do, I'm grumpy, and I'm running around swapping small batteries out to power my suit because I'm keeping my operation running with the two large batteries. ALL I WANT is some steel to make a large battery!

[Decavoid]

Wait for night. Close furnace output pipe by a valve. Put 2 volatile. Press activate twice. Put 1 oxite. Press activate again. Watch temperature rise above 600k. Put 3 iron, put 1 coal. Pull the lever.

[Forvet]

Originally posted by Decavoid:

Wait for night. Close furnace output pipe by a valve. Put 2 volatile. Press activate twice. Put 1 oxite. Press activate again. Watch temperature rise above 600k. Put 3 iron, put 1 coal. Pull the lever.

I just did this now, two volatile... I hit the button and it did absolutely nothing, so then I put in an Oxite and pressed the button, nothing.

The pressure sat at about 2.95MPa and temperature held at 277k. It hasn't changed at all. All of the valves are closed. Atleast it's not spraying gas this time.

[Decavoid]

Put atmos analyzer into the tablet. Point the tablet at the furnace. Check what gases are inside the furnace. You need O2 (oxite) and H2 (volatile). It is possible that you did insert ice (water) instead of oxite.

[Heightmare]

We're currently working on a more thorough tutorial, which will eventually help you smelt your first ingots of alloys. Appreciate your persistence working through it now though!

[Forvet]

Originally posted by Decavoid:

Put atmos analyzer into the tablet. Point the tablet at the furnace. Check what gases are inside the furnace. You need O2 (oxite) and H2 (volatile). It is possible that you did insert ice (water) instead of oxite.

I finally just got frustrated and crash-dumped 50 Oxite and 50 Volatile into the Furnace after putting 150 Iron and 50 Coal into the thing. Then I stood back until it said I could make Steel, Dumped the steel ingots on the ground and started emergency venting to lower the pressure. I'm sure it was a waste of Oxite and Volatile... but I needed that 200 steel.

Now that I have SOME steel, I can spend more time, relaxed, trying to figure this out in a way that won't potentially blow me up.

[liquidream_gt]

Hey link me your server i can join you and lets check whats happen there
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1653302188
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1653302260
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1653302336
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1653302302

[Dani]

I see 12000 iron and 3000 hydrocarbon!!!
You need the right ratio 3:1 and not 4:1, also I see no pressure in your furnace.

I think you are trying too hard, start with a small batch (3 stacks or iron and one stack of Coal)

[Soko]

Originally posted by Dani:

I see 12000 iron and 3000 hydrocarbon!!!
You need the right ratio 3:1 and not 4:1, also I see no pressure in your furnace.

I think you are trying too hard, start with a small batch (3 stacks or iron and one stack of Coal)

it looks 12g and 3g. probably ran it through the recycle/centrifuge
and to the OP one way you can try things out is to use the furnace with no exhaust pipe attached, just remove the pipe connecting to the furnace so that none of the gas/exhaust can escape that way you can smelt without losing your pressure/temp, then when you want to vent you can just re attach the pipe until you figure it out more