Ingot molds drop bars out of the bottom on their own
Bars no longer get thrown up into the furnace, and F is no longer needed to collect them. Blocked bars wait in the trough; the short stub stays for the next firing; F is optional upkeep (clean, chip slag, rake). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ decides something new, add it under "Decisions" with the date.
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2. Vacuum up what you want (tick materials to take only those), and blow it out where you need it.
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3. Build a furnace from wall blocks, with a grate floor over a mold. Charge it with ore and coal,
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light it, and let the molten metal run into the mold.
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4. Knock out bars and sell them at the trade dock, or fill buyers' orders, which pay more.
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4. Bars drop out of the bottom of the mold; collect them and sell them at the trade dock, or fill buyers' orders, which pay more.
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5. Better bits (copper, then iron, then steel) open harder rock: granite, then basalt. Deeper
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ores give tin, zinc, silver and gold, and alloys (bronze, brass) pay more.
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6. Automate with belts, screw tubes, filters, fans, pipes and machines. Pay off the claim.
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@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ Details and numbers live in the code and in `docs/systems/`.
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- Blocks: walls of any of several materials, belts, screw tubes, filters, grates, gates,
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pipes, pumps, outlets.
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- Machines: fan, Refiner, Stone cutter, Silo.
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- Molds: ingot, bit, tank.
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- Molds: ingot, bit, tank. Ingot bars drop out of the bottom onto whatever is under the mold;
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leave one open block below and a belt under that carries them off. F is optional upkeep: it
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cleans the trough, chips off slag and rakes the furnace grate. Short stubs stay for the next
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firing.
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- Build actions: drag for lines, Shift-drag for rectangles, Ctrl to replace, hold C / X and
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drag to copy / cut, V to paste, Ctrl+Z to undo, middle mouse to pick,
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Shift+Q/E to switch build tabs.
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@@ -132,6 +135,9 @@ above, including:
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does not replace it.
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**2026-10-23:**
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- **Ingot molds drop bars below automatically.** The owner reported bars being thrown into the
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furnace above and wants belts underneath to carry them off. Blocked bars wait in the trough;
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short stubs stay for the next firing. F stays available for cleaning and raking.
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- **Screw tubes carry no more than belts:** they move every other tick. For more throughput,
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build more lines.
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- **A heap on a belt moves as one**, up to 96 grains deep, not just its bottom layer. The owner
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