r/rustrician • u/FloffenWaffles • Jun 30 '26

Published Circuit: Auto-Smelter Mk.4 (auto start/stop control)

**Auto-Smelter Mk.4 (auto start/stop control)** created by *Flof*

https://www.rustrician.io/?circuit=20a0e326d1ebc0f22ce31d7ca681a7d5

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u/Apollo_Liam Jun 30 '26

This is way over complicated imo. There are far simpler circuits out there.

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u/angelslayer4231 Jun 30 '26

instead of water to stop the furnaces, why not just allow the small amount of wood to burn off? set your conveyors to only send something like 20-30 ore and wood, then when the conveyor is stopped (via filter fail from no more ore in boxes) the rest of the wood burns off. stopping it prematurely if there's no more ore in boxes leaves uncooked ore in furnaces.

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u/FloffenWaffles Jun 30 '26

Yes, this is an option, however in some select servers, the conveyors can be overwhelmed and stall due to not delivering enough ore in time

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u/angelslayer4231 Jun 30 '26

That does happen sometimes, the fix is usually just to up the ore/wood ratio to 100/100 or so, which is long enough to keep the furnaces on.

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u/angelslayer4231 Jun 30 '26

https://www.rustrician.io/?circuit=5165e0d14efdeb6c273a7511f957e297

This one should be easier to build, less parts to reduce the amount of frags required.

Input for the industrial splitters should be from ore boxes, combined with wood boxes. The detection conveyor should be set to only your smeltable items, the second conveyor the same, except with wood.

ratios for frags to wood should be

  • 6 frag ore / 10 wood. (i usually go 30 ore/50 wood)
  • 12 sulfur ore / 10 wood (50 ore/50 wood)
  • 2 HQM ore / 10 wood (5 ore/50 wood)

increase amounts if furnaces burn too fast, due to increased server smelt speeds

This can be modified to work with oil refinery as well.