Thanks for reply, yeah, after 2nd death I’ve debugged this using chest. I’ll try to change this setup later. Maybe using a queue hopper, or repeaters between hoppers. [Or I Can just add shredder to my ore processing zone and start using normal recipes]
P.S during tests in a secret “lab” at the cave under my base I’ve examined that steel production requires around 2/3 ku/t per 1 hu/t of burning box output. Am I right?
My final test setup was 1 Dense bronze and 1 Dense invar boilers (320 steam) connected to a strong steel engine (80 hu/t). It worked pretty well with 14 magnetite, 4 purified coal, 1 coal per pulse, giving 100% output of steel.
Also I intended the air problem, you mention. But it’s occurred that this build a little over produces kinetic energy, so I didn’t encounter it (Another problem is that the crucible might melt down faster than the next portion of resources reaches it. Using 8 nuggets of some metal solves it.)
At my base I used a temporary setup of a bronze bb and bronze steam engine powered with bronze+invar boilers to make a few stacks of steel too with the same 14-4-1 recipe. No problem here too, except slooooooooowneess.
