Ingot molds empty themselves (no F); removing a mold returns its set metal

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-23 22:53:38 -04:00
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 - **Glass bricks.**
  - Sand melts to molten glass in a fan furnace (peak about 2000°C measured).
  - Cast in an Ingot mold, it drops out of the bottom as glass bricks, worth $14 each.
+  - Ingot molds empty themselves: bars, junk and mixed scrap drop below; slag is thrown away
+    and the grate above is raked. Removing any mold returns its set metal to the bag: whole
+    bars as bars, the rest as scrap.
  - Glass bricks build glass wall blocks. Glass is too brittle for a bit mold.
 - **Stone cutter** (machine, 2×2, $90).
  - A saw under a hopper. Every 8 grains of stone rubble become one stone brick, which drops out