..This happens to me with train unload area, when it unload 2 yellow belt per wagon and it gets upgraded to 2 red belts, then there's twice as much ore, and it can sustain the upgrade of the furnaces.libik wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 9:57 am For me -> when I play on "default" settings, usually when I take some ore area, I instantly create full output mining drill and furnances. So when steel furnances come to play, I dont have usually any area I can just replace with steel furnances and add more ore to double output.
...mmmPI wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:16 pm
The nuance of amount of pollution saved by the fact that you will produce 2x as many plates with the same coal is marginal, as you need about 7 coal per 100 plates with stone furnaces, down to 3.5 or so with steel furnaces, the reduction if you look at the supply chain is less than 5% not around 50%.
Another way to start a random argument ? Then you will report me for disagreeing with you ?
You have twice as much total crafting speed in your furnace array, so overall , you consume the same amount of coal.quyxkh wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:19 pm Iron plate takes 3.2s at cs1, 1.6s at cs2, but both furnaces use 90kW. So steel furnace, crafting speed 2, uses 1.6s*90kW = 144kJ to produce one plate, 27 7/9 plates per coal, stone furnace 288kJ/plate, 13 8/9 plates per coal.
