Having a hard time keeping an efficient flow of carbon steel bars?!

[Blodraena]

Hey all I'm at a point in the game where most things need either Steel Shells OR Steel Frames, however... I'm having such a tough time keeping up with the demand in those resources which is making quests and commissions take way longer than is entertaining to me. I've got 1x Industrial Furnace & 2x Civil Furnace. I run out of charcoal constantly but have a steady run of iron coming in.

I could do with some advice on how to have a much more efficient flow of carbon steel bars and how to improve the workshop to be more efficient overall??

[Phantom]

Math time

if you have trouble with 3 furnaces keeping up with demand, if you had 6 you would have twice the supply, 12 would be four times, 24 would be eight...

I run and can supply raw mats for non stop use of

Factory
10 grinders
10 electric furnaces
80 indy furnaces (overkill, but easy to supply with stuff)
5 adv grinder
5 adv cutter
10 indy cutters
10 skinners (overkill)
2 adv skinners
~20 fire fueled generators
10 blenders (overkill)
with
80-100 trees
80-100 small planters
animals and horses
advanced construction thing
max house

have thousands of crafted materials... and almost no unused farm space

[Blodraena]

Oh wow, that is way more than I thought I would ever need haha, I thought I would be okay with the 3 I have but nope. I will have to take some time out of the main questing and stuff to set myself up.

[JVC]

I've been doing quite well with having (going by memory)
7 fire powered generators
7 electric furnaces
5 comprehensive cutters
1 advanced cutter (that will probably be upgraded)
2 grinders
4 comprehensive grinders
2 electric furnaces,
2 blenders
2 basic skivers
2 advanced skivers.
4 drying racks
Level 4 house
Around 20 trees and
30+ small planter boxes

I don't use all of the industrial capacity at once, but swap between what things are needed the most. I don't want to spend all day mining to feed the furnaces :)

Also connect everything with conductive flooring and have your trusty robot slave Ack feed the firepowered generators for you and collect the finished products.

[Blodraena]

Originally posted by JVC:

I've been doing quite well with having (going by memory)
hat things are needed the most. I don't want to spend all day mining to feed the furnaces :)

Also connect everything with conductive flooring and have your trusty robot slave Ack feed the firepowered generators for you and collect the finished products.

I've never used flooring before, wasn't aware of it either until now or even the firepowered generators! This changes things for me. Could you tell me what the difference is for the flooring and generator than just having furnances just alone.

[JVC]

Originally posted by Rae:

Originally posted by JVC:

I've been doing quite well with having (going by memory)
hat things are needed the most. I don't want to spend all day mining to feed the furnaces :)

Also connect everything with conductive flooring and have your trusty robot slave Ack feed the firepowered generators for you and collect the finished products.

I've never used flooring before, wasn't aware of it either until now or even the firepowered generators! This changes things for me. Could you tell me what the difference is for the flooring and generator than just having furnances just alone.

The difference is that it is way cheaper in fuel to use fire powered generators. 1 fire powered generator can supply 2 crafting stations (e.g. furnaces) with the required power for around 10-15 wood per day.

So this method is way cheaper in fuel than feeding wood or power stones to each crafting station separately.

Just use the cheap conductive flooring (a type of wood + copper wire). I've never heard of any benefit to using the version made by igneous rock and aluminium wire.

[JVC]

Update: previously there was an issue with Ack not fuelling the generators properly, but this issue was fixed more than a month ago. So just toss some stacks of the cheapest wood in his "helper's box" and he'll refill the generator before power runs out.

[Blodraena]

Originally posted by JVC:

Originally posted by Rae:

I've never used flooring before, wasn't aware of it either until now or even the firepowered generators! This changes things for me. Could you tell me what the difference is for the flooring and generator than just having furnances just alone.

The difference is that it is way cheaper in fuel to use fire powered generators. 1 fire powered generator can supply 2 crafting stations (e.g. furnaces) with the required power for around 10-15 wood per day.

So this method is way cheaper in fuel than feeding wood or power stones to each crafting station separately.

Just use the cheap conductive flooring (a type of wood + copper wire). I've never heard of any benefit to using the version made by igneous rock and aluminium wire.

Thank you! Your comment has been very helpful :)

[阿夢EDDyume]

I see above mention fire powered generators, though it was great in-term of fuel saving, it's not really that great when you are in the mid game and require a lot of carbon steel bars as it take 10 Steel Plate to make, it also take 1 civil furnace.

I just run 4x Civil Furnace and 10x Stone Furnace that run for carbon steel bars and charcoal 24/7, it's cheap and should be enough.

[Blodraena]

Originally posted by EndlessDream:

I see above mention fire powered generators, though it was great in-term of fuel saving, it's not really that great when you are in the mid game and require a lot of carbon steel bars as it take 10 Steel Plate to make, it also take 1 civil furnace.

I just run 4x Civil Furnace and 10x Stone Furnace that run for carbon steel bars and charcoal 24/7, it's cheap and should be enough.

Thank you, I will keep this in mind as I slowly expland, it will take me a long while to set up the fire generators anyway so I will have to not use them for a bit anyway.

[rajwarrior]

I know this is an old thread but I was having a time keeping up with carbon steel bars and this post was the only one that came up in a search. So, for anybody else that finds this thread, the real secret to managing carbon steel bars is to make a Comprehensive Cutter ASAP. Trade some power stones for some condensed power stones for some short-term power and then work on make a Fire Powered Generator to run the Com Cutter.

You need a ton of steel plates and the CC lets you make them with the ore rather than the bars.