Foundry
Foundry |
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Health |
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Stack size |
20 |
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5 |
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Dimensions |
5×5 |
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Energy consumption |
2500 kW (electric) |
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Drain |
83.33 kW (electric) |
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Crafting speed |
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Mining time |
0.2 |
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Base productivity |
50% |
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Pollution |
6/m |
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Module slots |
4 slots |
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Internal name |
foundry |
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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.
The Foundry is a version of assembly machine from Vulcanus that specializes in metallurgy. It has a built-in 50% productivity bonus.
The foundry can only be crafted on Vulcanus due to its higher atmospheric pressure, however it can be used on other planets once transported via space platform.
Recipes
The Foundry has twenty available unique recipes, of which one must be set before it can begin processing.
Additionally, the Foundry can also make other foundries, all belt types and holmium plates, in which case their recipes are the same as with assembling machines.
Efficiency
Most of the foundry's recipes are more efficient than creating the same items in a furnace or assembling machine. However, because of the built-in +50% productivity bonus (which applies even to items like belts that don't benefit from productivity modules), and because the same bonus also applies to the recipes for molten iron and molten copper, the actual efficiency gains from using a foundry are much higher than the value listed in the recipe.
The table below compares the values of the base recipes (with 1 ore = 10 molten metal), and then shows the actual output of the recipe with the default foundry bonuses of 4 crafting speed and 150% productivity (1 ore = 15 molten metal). For example, inserting 200 iron ore into a foundry with no modules installed would result in 3,000 molten iron which could be turned into 450 iron plates.
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Furnace/Assembler | Foundry | Efficiency | Foundry | Efficiency | ||||||||||
Time | Output | Time | Output | Time | Output | |||||||||
Iron plate | - | - | 100% | - | 225% | - | ||||||||
Steel plate | - | - | 167% | - | 375% | - | ||||||||
Iron gear wheel | - | - | 200% | - | 450% | - | ||||||||
Iron stick | - | - | 100% | - | 225% | - | ||||||||
Concrete | - | - | 50% | - | 113% | - | ||||||||
Pipe | - | - | 100% | - | 225% | - | ||||||||
Pipe to ground | - | - | 100% | - | 225% | - | ||||||||
Low density structure | 125% | 80% | 281% | 180% | ||||||||||
Copper plate | - | - | - | 100% | - | 225% | ||||||||
Copper cable | - | - | - | 200% | - | 450% |