Blast Furnace Tips

TerraFirmaCraft Blast Furnace Tips

So, you finally found that Kaolinite and are probably feeling pretty excited about making a 5-level Blast Furnace. Here are some tips before you go wild!

Before you use all your fire clay on 20 fire bricks, note that once you get into the steam age, you can craft it for significantly cheaper. This allows you to save Kaolinite and Graphite for Casting Tables.

To convert the iron to steel, the blast furnace must heat the iron inside to Brilliant White. On the first operation, the metal warms up along with the blast furnace. However, subsequent operations will take a similar amount of time despite the furnace being at temp already, as it needs to heat the metal from cold.

If the metal is hot when added into the blast furnace, it will take less time to reach brilliant white. Consider heating your metal in a Charcoal Forge before putting it into an already-hot furnace to save time, especially with smaller blast furnaces that process less at a time.

You'll need lots of Steel for the Steam and LV ages. Lots of steel. The Electric Blast Furnace is far off, so maybe think about optimizing your steel production.

You can pump liquid directly out of the blast furnace using a Create Mechanical Pump. Pump into a Mold Table and extract the ingots with a hopper or chute: Easy automation!

You can automate the bellows with a Deployer too! Just be careful, as using the bellows excessively consumes more fuel and breaks your tuyere faster.

You can process the resulting Pig Iron and High Carbon Steel in a Forge Hammer or Helve Hammer.

You can automatically replace broken tuyeres with a hopper or item pipe facing into the blast furnace.