Buildings > Fragile Furnace

Fragile Furnace

A furnace specialized for smelting ore stones with significant impurities into metal. Allows you to smelt out a metal with two high levels of impurities (any other metal, sand, dirt or limestone). Based on the experiments, you want the metal you need to have the most clusters.

See the furnace results page for more details and be prepared to see some failures while experimenting.

Vital statistics:

• You can load up to 35 stones.
• Cost to fire: 35 Charcoal.
• Time to fire: 120 seconds (2 Minutes.)

To build:

Construction costs:

• 300 Firebricks
• 24 Leather
• 20 Cut Stone
• 6 Crucible
• 4 Copper Sheeting
• 4 Bearings
• 2 Iron Bar
• 2 Sheet Glass

Built: in a compound, uses 15x15 cells

Skill/Tech required: Fragile Metallurgy

Comments

• Cannot make alloys (brass, bronze, pewter and steel) - use an amalgamation furnace.
• See also: the mining pages