Industry

Industry is a key feature of TC2, combining the raw resources and other goods of the game and producing items, equipment and materials.

It can be the difference between a faction's domination over the map, or it's destruction, as the raw output of these goods can provide a faction with massive construction materials, vehicles or weaponry.

Whilst confusing at times, it has many intricacies, and is very varied in how you approach your layouts when it comes to factories and production.

### Large Furnace

The Large Furnace is the key part of raw resource refining. It is costly - however, but its smaller version is cheaper however provides less output for the faction. The furnace has a large variety of recipes - a majority of these are using various raw resources to smelt gold, copper, iron and steel ingots.

### Steam Engine

There are two types of steam engine in this game - for simplicity i'll call it the Box Engine and the Long Tube. The Long Tube is the more efficient and powerful variant - however it is exceptionally more costly, whilst the Box Engine is a more compact and cheaper version that can power more meagre features of a base - such as elevators or gates.

These are prime parts of a factory - they operate grinders, pulverizers, stamping presses and water pumps. They can be powered by any fuel type - and they usually burn very slowly, meaning using low-quantity fuel like phlogiston will still take a long time to run out even at full speed. It is recommended to use belts, which can be found on the wrench menu, to power these mechanisms by clicking on the steam engine's motor wheel, and tying it with the mechanism's motor wheel.

### Grinders

There are two grinder types in the game currently - a Small Grinder and a Pulverizer. The Small Grinder operates on a single inputted resource - this can be stone, ore gravels or slag, and the Pulverizer grinds whatever is inside that it is capable of grinding. The Small Grinder is a cheaper, more compact and sometimes more efficient choice to the Pulverizer, but its output can be lacking. They are operated by belts tied to a Steam Engine, and can only run if the Steam Engine runs simultaneously; pulverizer and small grinder alike.

Grinders are a core part of providing the resources for furnaces - grinding ore into gravel, and gravel into powder that can be refined into ingots in a furnace. As a result, unless you are refining raw iron ore or chalcopyrite, it is necessary for making iron, copper, steel and gold ingots. Grinders can break slag down into various materials too, like gold powder or iron powder, and can break stone into cement which is used to create concrete and furnaces.

### Press

The press, or Stamping Press, is a manufacturing mechanism that crafts ammo, machine parts and other items using ingots or plates or other materials. It is an alternative to manual labor, and can be linked to the furnace or another press for resources via conveyors.

The press is especially important for machine parts; making far more of them in a very short span of time opposed to manual labor in a forge, and if provided with Nitrocellulose/Gunpowder/etc it can create ammo quickly as well. It is powered by a Steam Engine - like a grinder, and is important for automated production of plates and machine parts that can be used in weaponry and vehicles.

### Water Pump

The Water Pump is used in pumping water from the ground, and this can be used in the refinery for different drugs and products. It runs by being tied to a Steam Engine akin to the Grinders and Press, and doesn’t do much else. Its just a water pump.