Extended Vanilla: Refining


An overhaul to the Vanilla ore processing while maintaining the style and simplicity of Factorio. Now compatible and balanced around Space Age. (Inspired from Minecraft's Mekanism mod.)

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b v2.4.0 - No way to choose recipe for Advanced Steel Production

8 months ago
(updated 8 months ago)

Right now, the advanced steel processing recipe (using Coal Coke) has no machine associated with it, so it cannot be chosen anywhere. You can create Coal Coke just fine, but neither the basic stone furnace, nor the Steel furnace, can select it (they also don't accept more than one ingredient, so even if it was associated to them, they'd never be able to do it, since they only have an input slot and a fuel slot).

For this recipe to work in vanilla, you would have to add a custom furnace that could accept multiple inputs.

EDIT:
Looking at the recipe chain in Recipe Book, this seems to hold true for the entire Steel chain. None of the new, advanced, recipes, have any associated machines, so they can never be made in vanilla Factorio. So there should probably be a setting to disable the advanced steel production chain and only focus on the coal enrichment for power (fuel), unless you also add a multi-input furnace to go with the new chain. Alternatively, add something like https://mods.factorio.com/mod/furnace-recipe-selection as a dependency.

8 months ago

Never thought that furnaces could cause this problem.
Thank you for the advice, I'll be fixing the thing asap.
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8 months ago

The Furnace Recipe Selection mod basically makes this a non-issue, but the basic vanilla furnaces cannot "choose" a recipe in this way, so they'll do the base Steel recipe no matter what.

8 months ago

Fixed with the introduction of steel dust.
Now the advanced recipes, other than requesting iron dust instead of iron plates (an interesting mechanic), give you steel dust.
And I must say that another smelting step is also interesting, since we're breaking the 4.0 ore efficiency another time. (Despite it is limited to steel.)
Now you don't have to install other mods to fix this issue.

8 months ago

This was an unexpected, but neat fix. It completely broke my factory though, as I was using Plates + Coke in a lot of places to produce steel "in-situ". But it was an easy fix. Neat idea, I like it!

8 months ago

I always try to maintain how recipe chains work, since I know it can be frustrating.
But I mean this update went out a couple of days ago, it is reasonable.
Thanks for everything! :D

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