Uranium ore

2018-06-21T09:26:09Z

Isaac: Expounded that the a special mining drill is not required.

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[[File:Glow.png|thumb|right|Uranium ore will glow at night, making it easier to see.]]
[[File:Electric_mining_drill-Uranium_ore.png|thumb|left|Electric mining drill placed on uranium ore, pipe input/output visible.]]

'''Uranium ore''' is a resource found on the map. Instead of being smelted in a [[furnace]], uranium ore must be processed in a [[centrifuge]] to produce [[uranium-235]] and [[uranium-238]], which is used to craft fuel for the [[nuclear reactor]] and in various types of [[ammunition]].

In order to mine uranium ore, [[sulfuric acid]] must also be fed into the [[electric mining drill]] used to mine the ore, at a rate of 10 sulfuric acid per 10 ore mined. When an Electric Mining Drill is placed upon a Uranium Ore patch, fluid ports automatically appear on the sides of the Mining Drill; it doesn't require a special type of Electric Mining Drill. Because of this, uranium ore cannot be mined by hand.

No additional sulfuric acid is consumed when additional products are created due to a productivity bonus from [[productivity module]]s or [[mining productivity (research)|mining productivity]]. For example, with a 20% productivity bonus, 12 ore will be mined for every 10 sulfuric acid consumed. The ore has a green glow, making it easily seen at night.

== History ==
{{History|0.15.0|
* Introduced}}

== See also ==
* [[Uranium processing]]

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Crafting

2018-06-21T09:19:57Z

Isaac: /* Recipe difficulties */

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The process of 'crafting' is to produce an end product off of input products using a recipe. The [[player]] or [[Assembling machine]]s can craft. Smelting is achieved by using [[Furnace]]s. Since smelting cannot be done by the player, it is impossible to craft some items directly from raw resources. Some crafting even beyond raw resources still requires an assembling machine.

In the beginning of the game, it is easy to make everything manually, but as the game advances manual crafting is less and less efficient of a way to create. Products that require liquids and a few others (such as engine units) cannot be manually crafted. This is to encourage automation.

== Achievements ==
{{Achievement|lazy-bastard}}

== Manual crafting ==

Manual crafting is the most basic form of crafting, it is done directly in the player's inventory. To manually craft an object, open the player's inventory (Default keybinding {{keybinding|e}}), and select an object to manually craft on the right. Left click for one, right click for five, and shift click to make as many as possible. If the image of the item is grayed out, ensure you have the materials necessary to craft the object. If you lack a resource, it will be shown highlighted in red text if you mouse-over the product. Materials that you don't have but you can craft will be highlighted in orange text, and will be chain-crafted to reach the product you selected. This is an advantage over automatic crafting using machines, which do not automatically create intermediate ingredients.

While manually crafting, there will be icons in the bottom left of the screen, which shows the current crafting operation. When an item is selected for crafting, the resources will be preemptively taken from the player's inventory. If that operation is then canceled, the items will be fully returned to the player.

To cancel a manual crafting operation from the queue at the bottom left of the screen, left click (to cancel one operation), right click (to cancel five operations), or shift-left click to cancel all crafts of that item. This is useful if you accidentally queue the wrong product, or too many of a product. All the materials taken to craft the item will be returned to your inventory. Manual crafting can be canceled at any time, but already-crafted intermediate products will not be uncrafted.

== Automated crafting ==

Automated crafting is done outside of the player's inventory, allowing for multiple products to be produced at once, in synchronous harmony. This is where most crafting should take place.

Key structures in automated crafting are:
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2| Resource Extraction
|-
| {{Imagelink|Burner mining drill|Burner mining drill}} {{Imagelink|Electric mining drill|Electric mining drill}} || [[Mining|Mine]]s resources.
|-
| {{Imagelink|Offshore pump|Offshore pump}} || Extracts [[Water]] from lakes.
|-
| {{imagelink|pumpjack|Pumpjack}} || Extracts [[Crude oil]] from [[oil field]]s.
|-
!colspan=2| Furnaces
|-
| {{Imagelink|Stone furnace|Stone furnace}} {{Imagelink|Steel furnace|Steel furnace}} {{Imagelink|Electric furnace|Electric furnace}} || Process raw minerals to their base metal, by smelting.
|-
!colspan=2| Production
|-
| {{imagelink|Assembling machine 1}} || Can craft items that require up to 2 types of ingredients. Cannot handle fluid ingredients.
|-
| {{imagelink|Assembling machine 2}} || Can craft items that require up to 4 types of ingredients. Can handle recipes with fluid ingredients.
|-
| {{imagelink|Assembling machine 3}} || Can craft items that require up to 6 types of ingredients. Can handle recipes requiring fluid ingredients.
|-
| {{Imagelink|Oil refinery|Oil refinery}} {{Imagelink|Chemical plant|Chemical plant|Chemical plant}} || Processes [[Crude oil]] and other fluids.
|-
| {{imagelink|centrifuge|Centrifuge}} || Process [[Uranium ore]] into more useful intermediate products.
|}

== Basic ==
As an introduction to crafting, let's craft some simple iron plates.

'''Task''': create [[Iron plate]]s.

Steps:
# Place a [[Burner mining drill]] onto an [[Iron ore]] resource field. This is a silvery patch that is fairly common.
# Place a [[Furnace]] directly in front of the output (press {{keybinding|Alt}} to show output arrow), so that the miner outputs the ore into the furnace, which can receive on any side.
# Fill both the miner and the furnace with [[Fuel]], such as coal or logs.
# Wait. After a few seconds, the first piece of [[Iron plate]] is smelted and available for collection. Either collect it manually, or pull it out with an [[Inserters|inserter]].

This entire process is commonly referred to as 'smelting'. [[Copper ore]] must also be smelted.

== Advanced ==

Crafting of items can be automated. To automatically craft items, place a [[Assembling machine]], and select the recipe. Note that if the recipe is complicated enough, higher tiers of assembling machines may be necessary. Then, place all requested ingredients into the input slots, and the assembling machine should craft the item. Note that unlike manual crafting, each step of the craft requires another assembly machine. For example, crafting a [[lamp]] requires a machine to make [[copper cable]], a machine to make [[iron stick]]s, a machine to make [[electronic circuit]]s, etc. ''Assembly machines cannot automatically chain-craft like the player.''

To keep up continuous production ingredients must be provided via [[belt transport system|belts]] and [[Inserters]]. The manufactured items can also be extracted by [[Inserters]] and are then available for further usage elsewhere in the factory.

== Recipe difficulties ==

When [[World generator|generating a world]], the player can choose between normal and expensive recipes (expensive mode). The expensive recipes represent another challenge beyond the "vanilla" game with normal recipes (normal mode) because they change some common ratios and have higher resource requirements.

== History ==

{{history|0.15.0|
* Crafting now pauses when the results cannot fit into the player's inventory.}}

{{history|0.13.4|
* Surplus items are used for crafting further items, instead of being dropped into the inventory.}}

{{history|0.13.0|
* Crafting counts are recorded per force.}}

{{history|0.11.15|
* Order of inputs/outputs for fluid in machines is now constant.}}

{{history|0.11.9|
* Inventory now sorts properly when god mode crafting.}}

{{history|0.11.0|
* Event "on_player_crafted_item" is now called for every single finished item.}}

{{history|0.10.3|
* Crafting GUI now supports scrolling.}}

{{history|0.9.4|
* Recipes can now be hidden, so they don't appear in the player crafting screen.}}

{{history|0.9.2|
* Crafting GUI now resizes dynamically to fit the largest size.
* Only play crafting sound when final product is finished.}}

{{history|0.9.0|
* Updated/added sounds for crafting.}}

{{history|0.8.0|
* Unified crafting time, crafting time is now 1:1 with manual crafting.}}

{{history|0.5.0|
* Recipes categorized better.
* Recipes can now cost nothing but time.}}

{{history|0.4.0|
* Wider item selection screen.}}

{{history|0.2.10|
* Tool tip in technology preview now shows total raw.}}

{{history|0.2.9|
* Recipes are categorized.}}

{{history|0.2.8|
* Intermediate items in the crafting queue now show in a different color.
* Canceling crafting now cascades to all ingredients.}}

{{history|0.1.0|
* Introduced}}

== See also ==
* [[Electric system]]
* [[Assembling machine]]
* [[Furnace]]

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