Advanced Furnace

The Advanced Furnace is a crafting station found in the Crafting section of the Tech Tree.

Used to Craft

 * Ceramic Shard
 * Charcoal
 * Glass
 * Iron Ingot
 * Nibiran Ingot
 * Tar

Unlock
Unlocked in the Crafting section of the Tech Tree using 25 Tablets of any one type.

Usage
The Advance Furnace has two input locations which allows it to transform raw materials into advanced materials (partial loads are acceptable) which are needed for advanced recipes. The Advanced Furnace can craft all of the Furnace recipes using double the input for double the output, but the same crafting time (and fuel cost).


 * Wood is transformed into Charcoal
 * 200 Wood equals ~180-198 Charcoal. The process takes 10 minutes (10 Liquid Fuel, 6 Rupu Gel, 8 Lava Fuel)
 * Clay is transformed into Ceramic Shard
 * 200 Clay equals 166-190 Ceramic Shard. The process takes 24 minutes (24 Liquid Fuel, 15 Rupu Gel, or 18 Lava Fuel)
 * Earth Wax is transformed into Tar
 * 200 Earth Wax equals 200 Tar. The process takes 44 minutes (44 Liquid Fuel, 27 Rupu Gel, 33 Lava Fuel)
 * Sand is transformed into Glass
 * 200 Sand equals ~100 Glass. The process takes 36 minutes (36 Liquid Fuel, 22 Rupu Gel, 27 Lava Fuel)
 * Iron Ore is transformed into Iron Ingot
 * 200 Iron equals 25-50 Iron Ingot. The process takes 110 minutes (110 Liquid Fuel, 66 Rupu Gel, 83 Lava Fuel)
 * Iron Ingot & Nibiran Mineral is transformed into Nibiran Ingot
 * 12 Iron Ingots & 96 Nibiran Mineral equals 12 Nibiran Ingot. The process takes 12 minutes (12 Liquid Fuel, 8 Rupu Gel, 10 Lava Fuel)

The Advanced Furnace has one fuel location which heats and transforms the raw materials into advanced materials. The fuel sources can be:


 * Liquid Fuel (1 minute)
 * Rupu Gel (1:40 minutes)
 * Lava Fuel (1:20 minutes)

The Advanced Furnace has a lengthy smelting cycle, and like other features in the game has a two stage cycle. The first half of the smelting cycle is to raise the temperature in the furnace to the correct point. The second half of the smelting cycle will begin to consume the input material and start producing the corresponding output material. If the smelting cycle is interrupted, it must be started over from the beginning.