Smeltery

## Overview

The Smeltery is a multi-block structure used in the creation of higher-tier weapons and tools using metal and alloys. It is used to smelt ores, ingots or blocks of almost any metal as well as Obsidian. It can also make alloys, which include Manyullyn, Bronze, and Pig Iron. But beware, if you or other mobs fall into the smeltery while it has fuel, it causes damage via a system called "entity melting." This can be used in creating Pig Iron, as well as some alloys added by ExtraTiC. Blood can also be poured into an empty Casting Table to make Congealed Blood. Blood can also be obtained by smelting Rotten Flesh or pushing mobs into the smeltery while it contains a molten liquid. Other liquids can also be obtained in this manner, Horses will give you glue, while Villagers provide Liquified Emerald which is also needed for Pig Iron, and Iron Golems provide Iron.

## Materials

Most of the Smeltery is made from seared bricks (smelted Grout), but you will also need some copper (at least 6 ingots), and optionally glass. The smeltery needs ores and a heat source (ideally lava) to function, so it's recommended to build it near a lava lake either on the surface or near the bottom of the world.

To make a smelter, you will first need its predecessor, The Melter. It acts as a 1-block compact version of the smeltery, and can be powered by a heater or a seared tank. Both the Melter and the Smeltery are much more efficient at melting down ores and armor, yielding more metal than furnaces would. The basics of this machine can be found in Puny Smelting, which can be crafted with crafting a book with grout.

**Helpful note: Melting down grout in a Melter or Smeltery will yield double the seared stone: Two bricks per grout rather than one.**

Likewise, info on the upgraded Smeltery can be found in Mighty Smelting, which can be made by connecting a faucet to the Melter, placing a casting table below it, placing a book on the table, and pouring seared stone over it.

## Building a Basic Smeltery

Begin construction by placing a 3x3 base of Seared Bricks. Typical Smeltery construction has the base laid into the ground rather than on top of the ground.

Start with a 3x3 base of seared bricks or seared stone.

Add a smeltery controller facing toward the inside of the base. The smeltery controller can be made by pouring four copper ingots into a seared heater within a seared casting basin.

Add any amount of seared fuel tanks or seared fuel gauges, and form a bowl structure of seared bricks. Note that you don't need any more bricks on the floor level besides the 3x3. In addition, the screen on the controller has turned black to show that it is a valid smeltery, and you can right click it to open the smeltery interface. Blocks placed on corners are neither necessary nor valid.

Replace some walls with at least one seared drain connected to one or two seared faucets. Note the holes of these drains will turn black if the Smeltery is valid.

Add a seared casting table and casting basin. You will need both to make more tools.

You can continue to add layers to your Smeltery walls. Every layer that you add will give you an additional 9 processing slots (9 slots for each 3x3 space inside the smeltery). The smeltery walls can be constructed out of any variety of Seared Brick, Seared Glass, Seared Fuel Tanks, etc.

## How to use

To power up the smeltery, add lava to the fuel tanks. Note that you can also carry filled fuel tanks with you, and each carries 4 buckets (4000 mb) of fluid. This will make carrying fuel much easier than with buckets.

The left side of the GUI shows your processing slots, with 9 slots added for every layer of empty space inside your smeltery.

The middle of the GUI is the storage tank where the liquid metals are stored. This allows you to see how much liquid metal is inside the Smeltery, what kinds of metal, and in what order they will be drained (starting from the bottom). In 1.6+ versions of TiC, you can change the order by clicking on the desired liquid. (unsupported in 1.5 versions)

The bar along the right side of the GUI is how much lava the Smeltery currently has left. Having less lava means the ores heat up slower. No lava prevents any smelting from occurring.

To use the liquid metal, you must drain the liquid into a Casting Basin or a Casting Table. Place a Seared Faucet onto the small hole on a Smeltery Drain, and place a Casting Basin or Casting Table underneath the drain. To activate the Faucet, right-click on it. A Casting Basin will allow you to create blocks. Metal blocks require 9 ingots, but other smeltable materials, like Obsidian or Glass and Sand, require the same amount of material that was placed into the smeltery. The Casting Table will allow you to create casts out of Aluminum Brass or Gold to create other metal items using the casts you have previously made.

## Storing your liquid metals

If you want to keep your metals aside for later, or if you have less than 1 ingot in the Smeltery and would like to save it, place a tank below the Seared Faucet, or hook up a Buildcraft-compatible pipe to the Smeltery drain, and you can pull your molten metals out into a tank for later use.

(However, if you have half an ingot of certain metals, you may find it simpler to either just cast a tool rod of that material and then smelt it down later, or to pour it into a basin and breaking the basin for easy clearing of your smeltery)

To get your metals back into the tank, you must pipe the liquid back into the smeltery. The only methods available with just Tinker's Construct is detailed below:

Satherian Method: Place a Casting Channel on the Smeltery Drain, then the tank you want to drain out of will be placed one block up and one block over. The faucet is then placed on the tank and above the channel. [Note: using this only allows for one ingot to be transferred at a time]

ThermX Method: Remove one of the top ring blocks of the Smeltery, and replace it with a drain facing up. The tank is then placed one block away and the faucet on the tank, over the drain.

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## Notes

Be careful disassembling the Smeltery if you have molten metals in it. Removing the Smeltery Controller will delete all of the liquid stored inside of it. (This feature may be useful, however, if you have odd amounts of metals or unwanted alloys leftover). You can, however, remove every other block, so as long as the controller stays where it originally was, you can completely change the configuration of your smeltery. Moving may be a bit harder...

It is possible to have multiple metals within the Smeltery at once, but make sure they are not alloy metals (e.g. Aluminium and copper to make aluminum brass) unless you mean to mix them. You can store molten metals into a Tinker Tank and they will not alloy.

## Entity Melting

Entity melting occurs when a player or mob enters the inside of the smeltery structure, after which it takes damage until it either dies or escapes from the smeltery. The table below indicates the fluids that can be produced by this process, the mobs that can produce the fluids, and the rate at which they are produced. The rates are measured in millibuckets of fluid produced per heart of damage taken by the mob.

## Alloying

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A full list of materials that can be alloyed is in JEI.