EDIT: Marked as solved, even though there’s no definitive answer on it yet.
Will update if a definitive answer arises.
As the title suggests, can i move molten stuff from a pipe to a crucible in exact amounts?
As a side question to this, is is possible to move molten stuff from a crucible into a pipe?
I want to make alloys. The only way i can see how to make them is by smelting two or more materials in a crucible. However, if i could pre-heat some stuff it would simplify the process. Especially as some alloy recipes require alloys as ingredients.
Of course this is all about batching and automation so it’s not really a problem if i just throw stuff in manually.
And on that similar vein, what would stop me from smelting say all my iron and storing it in tanks and then using molds to have a dispenser of whatever type i want? Which of course would be unrealistic at best.
That is what the Smelter is for, not the Crucible.
You can manually dump Fluids from a Drum to a Crucible using the Measuring Pot, and the Measuring Pot can be set to have a very specific Capacity, see Tooltip on how to set that.
So what you are saying is, it’s possible to store molten metal indefinitely in tanks/drums etc?
My question of course is for automatically, not manually. So it’s not possible to fill the crucible (automatically) any other way aside from another crucible with a faucet i take it then?
Have you tried dumping in Stuff via Pipes? I’m not sure if its already possible, but it definitely works on Molds, and Crucibles do work a little bit like Molds too.
The Smelter is for automatic, same for the Mixer Recipes for certain Metals.
And yes you can store molten Metal indefinitely, heck even Steam can be stored in Pipes indefinitely. Making it become Solid or cold over time would be a ginormous hassle for everyone.
I have tried it but i never managed to get stuff from crucible into pipes. Or the other way around.
But since you say it might be possible, that’s at least not a definitely no.
I read that and immediately realized you were talking about molten alloy and then it all fell into place…
I had never considered that the mixer would be able to mix liquid metals into an alloy.
EDIT: To be fair though, in my mind. Alloys happen by mixing AND heating. Not just pouring two molten metals together and mixing them. Doing that IRL would solidify them into a multi colored lollipop.
cause in my time i just tryed NEI
and I don’t see other obvious things)
also we need crucible recipe for stainless steel from cupronickel, i boiled lots of times when smelting this
I really never did consider mixing the molten metals. I was so dead set of throwing dusts and ingots in someplace to where i actually believed alloying could only be done in a crucible.
I did at one point think that the smelter might be able to do alloying though. I checked for it with the molten product of an alloy but i never saw a “smelter” tab. In doing so i must have just skimmed over the mixer tab.
By the way, i haven’t actually acquired tungsten yet. I still need to do a lot of alloying but you know, i keep trying to figure out ways of improving my crucible setup. Not really thinking about the other machines that could do better things.
Just gonna ask real quick… Multiblock crucibles can’t be emptied/filled with jugs like the regular crucible, right?
Because i had grand ideas of sparing me the trouble of “alloying” black sand with carbon to make iron in the multiblock crucible, then solidifying it and re-melting it in the smelter.
I would even use opencomputers robots to do this for me.
That is, i wanted to pick the molten iron up as a liquid in jugs and pouring the molten iron into a drum for later use. But it seems i can’t do that?
And if that’s not “intended” because “the smelter exists for a reason” then to me that’s pretty dumb, i am storing all my metals as molten in drums now (because heck realism to heck) so i can just use it on demand.
So making iron in the crucible only to have to re-smelt it in the smelter is annoying and feels so wasteful. It’s already molten FFS!
It would be nice if there was at least a late game/high tech way (after one has made a smelter already) to get molten stuff out of both kinds of crucibles into drums automatically.
Or do i really have to use the small crucible for this just because it’s the only one that works this way?
And on that note, do capsule-cell-containers work like jugs do? Because i am going to need them for higher temperature stuff in the future with crucibles. For the stuff that lacks a mixer alloying recipe.
Uh You can try, it should probably work actually. Maybe click the Main Block from the top? Clicking the Top Layer from the Top should probably work too.
They should work like Jugs do but you cannot drink from them. They use the same Code otherwise.
The Smelter is doing parallel work sequentially, so if you insert a Stack of stuff it will do ALL AT ONCE, making the Recipe be much longer. I need to find a way to disallow Parallel for certain Recipes…
Yes, i know the smelter can (doesn’t always though, such as blocks of the thing) smelt all in one go at a ridiculously slow time.
But the smelter is still much slower than the crucible.
