Electric smelter

Electric smelter

Electric smelter

Extracts usable metal from slag chunks and other mixed metal items. Consumes a lot of power.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Production

Market Value

400  ^[Note]

Mass

20 kg

HP

180

Flammability

100%

Path Cost

50 (21%)

Building

Size

3 × 1

Minifiable

True

Placeable

True

Passability

pass through only

Cover Effectiveness

50%

Terrain Affordance

Heavy

Power

-700 W

Light Radius

3.44

Heat Per Second

9

Creation

Required Research

Electricity

Skill Required

Construction 4

Work To Make

3,500 ticks (58.33 secs)

Resources to make

170 + 2

Deconstruct yield

85 + 1

Destroy yield

42 - 43 + 0 - 1

Technical

thingCategories

BuildingsProduction

The Electric smelter is used to extracts steel from steel slag chunks and metal weapons and armor. Colonists assigned to crafting will make use of it. Metallic weapons and armor can be smelted to return 25% of their crafting cost. Items can also be destroyed by smelting,

Acquisition

It is built with  170 Steel,  2 Components in 3,500 ticks (58.33 secs) after the research Electricity has been completed.

Analysis

Electric smelters produce heat in process of smelting things (amount comparable to output of one heater). No heat is produced when idle, even if powered on.

It outputs light in a 6 tile radius while it is powered on, with the nearest 3.442 tiles being above 50% light level and considered lit. As the smelter can only be used while it is powered, and it emits light when powered, this means there is no need for additional light sources to prevent work speed penalties to the operator. The light emitted by the smelter itself is sufficient.

Some items sell for more silver than would be required to buy the same amount of materials obtained from smelting, especially at high qualities and hit points. However as some items have low sell value/smelted material ratios, and smelting returns the same materials regardless of quality, damage, biocoding or tainting it can be used to extract moderate value from items of little or no worth otherwise. Both of these facts should be kept in mind while creating any automated smelting bills. It is never recommended to destroy items, as sale for silver brings a little profit as opposed to none at all by destruction.

For an unmodified, healthy pawn, smelting a steel slag chunk takes 400 ticks (6.67 secs) of work, as does destroying items, while smelting a weapon or piece of apparel takes 1,600 ticks (26.67 secs) of work. The Smelting Speed of pawns using the electric smelter is not dependent on any skills, instead it can only be increased above normal with increased manipulation. Therefore bionic and archotech arms are the primary method of improving smelting rates. Additionally, traits that improve Global Work Speed, such as Industrious are also useful in this regard.

Sell or Smelt

This graph shows dependence item sell price multiplier($) from item hit points.

The specifics of which items to designate for smelting and which should be kept for sale are still undetermined. It seems like most craftable melee weapons are better to smelt, while sniper rifles are generally better to sell, though this relationship may break down at high and low qualities respectively. Very damaged (under 60% health remaining, the value of an item drops rapidly after 60 percent) items are better to smelt, as the sale price is reduced while the amount of resources recovered are unaffected.

Name	Material return	Sell Quality^
Steel slag chunk	15	N/A
Gladius	12 (125*)	?
Longsword	25 (250*)	?
Knife	7 (75*)	?
Ikwa	13 (125*)	?
Spear	19 (188*)	?
Mace	13 (125*)	?
Club	10 (100*)	?
Axe	13 (125*)	?
Warhammer	37 (375*)	?
Autopistol	7	79.5(3)
Revolver	7	81(3)
Pump shotgun	15	76.3(4)
Machine pistol	11	73(4)
Bolt-action rifle	15	88(3); 71.2(4)
Assault rifle	15	71(2);60.3(3)
Sniper rifle	15	86(1);67(2);59(3)
LMG	19	74(3)
Heavy SMG	19	83(3)
Frag grenades	10	?
Molotov cocktails	10	?
EMP grenades	10	?
Chain shotgun	18	73.7(3)
Minigun	40	64.3(3)
Incendiary launcher	19	85(3)
EMP launcher	19	?
Smoke launcher	19	?
Charge rifle	13	?
Charge lance	15	?
Shield belt	12 +  5	66(1);57.5(2);6(3)
Simple helmet	10 (100*)	?
Flak helmet	10 (100*) +  2	?
Recon helmet	8	?
Marine helmet	10	?
Cataphract helmet	13	?
Prestige recon helmet	10 +  3 +  1	?
Prestige marine helmet	13 +  5 +  2	?
Prestige cataphract helmet	19 +  12 +  2	?
Plate armor	43 (425*)	?
Flak vest	15 +  8	?
Flak pants	15 +  7	?
Flak jacket	17 +  13	?
Recon armor	20 +  3	?
Marine armor	25 +  5	?
Cataphract armor	37 +  13	?
Prestige recon armor	25 +  3 +  3	?
Prestige marine armor	30 +  5 +  3	?
Prestige cataphract armor	48 +  12 +  4	?
Locust armor	30 +  3 +  25	?
Grenadier armor	25 +  5 +  19	?
Phoenix armor	38 +  12 +  18 +  10	?
Visage mask	4	?

^{* return for small materials (gold, silver, uranium)
^ The hit points and quality where sale price for a Social 10 pawn would gain more silver than would be required to buy equivalent amount of materials(3 is normal quality; 7 is legendary). Assuming player sell for 60% of price and buy for 140% price.}

Version history

• 0.4.460 - Added as Slag Refinery
• 1.3.3087 - Pawns no longer smelt relics, to avoid accidental mishaps.

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Architect

Production | Neolithic

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Medieval

Fueled smithy • Hand tailor bench • Stonecutter's table

Industrial

Biofuel refinery • Deep drill • Drug lab • Electric crematorium • Electric smelter • Electric smithy • Electric stove • Electric tailor bench • Fabrication bench • Hi-tech research bench • Hydroponics basin • Machining table • Nutrient paste dispenser (Hopper)

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