現在你已經實現了從礦石到鐵板的自動化流程。
Now you have automated ore to plate process.
再也不需要用雙手一塊一塊地挖鐵礦了。
No more hand-mining every piece of iron.
這就是你工廠的基石。
This is the foundation of your factory.
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You have a few furnaces running, but they're still using burner miners and manual feeding.
+To really scale up smelting, you'll need electric inserters (they need power) and splitters (to balance belts).
+Both are locked behind research.
+So before we expand the smelter, let's get electricity and science up and running.
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Find a water source. Build:
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Put coal or wood into the boiler. You now have electricity!
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Open your crafting menu (E). You'll need:
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Now handcraft Red Science Packs (1 iron gear wheel + 1 copper plate = 1 pack).
+Make 10 packs.
+Insert them into the lab.
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In the research interface (I), select:
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Now you have:
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Without these, expanding your smelter would mean using slow burner inserters and difficulty to split or merge belts.
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Now that you have a single burner miner feeding a furnace, it's time to think bigger.
You'll need a lot of iron plates. Belts, inserters, and assemblers all eat them up.
Copper and stone are used in smaller amounts, but you'll still want a steady supply.
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Add more miners and furnaces.
A good starter layout is 8 iron furnaces + 2 copper furnaces.
Place them in a row.
For now, you can manually feed them ore from a chest.
But soon you'll want belts.
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Coal is your main fuel.
Place two burner miners on a coal patch so their output arrows point into each other's fuel slot.
Drop a piece of coal into one, and they'll keep each other running forever.
You can chain more miners, just feed the first one, and the rest keep going.
This gives you a steady stream of coal.
A → B → C → D … → A
Now build a dedicated smelting line for iron.
Lay down a row of 12 stone furnaces.
This will be a half belt of plates output on a single lane.
Use one belt to bring in iron ore from miners and another belt to carry coal.
You can manually fill chests for now, belts come in the next chapter.
You now have a small but expandable smelting area.
This is the heart of your factory.
Every plate produced here will fuel your research and construction.