40d Talk:Magma smelter

So, what's the advantage of building a magma smelter over a regular one? What can you do with the aid of magma that you can't with a normal one? This may seem obvious, but I think it'd be far more informative for the newbies than just telling us how to make one and make it work. It'd be nice if the limitations of the regular smelter also made it into the smelter article. --BDR 19:25, 2 November 2007 (EDT)

Magma smelters don't require fuel for anything other then making steel or pig iron bars. I think you can only make adamantium wafers at magma smelters, but i'm not sure about this so I'm not going to add it.Moonman 08:52, 29 February 2008 (EST)

Even then, the coal isn't really fuel, it is a what you add to iron to make steel (steel=iron + carbon and the carbon has to come from somewhere).GarrieIrons 04:24, 3 June 2008 (EDT)

How do you build it? I currently have a setup like this:

Lvl 1:   Lvl 0:

 SSS      MMM

 CSS      MMM

 SSS      MMM

S=smelter, C=channel, M=magma
but it still requires coal to melt ores...how do i make it so that the smelter becomes a magma smelter? is there an order that you have to build it in? --Wizjany 20:50, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

If you are smelting steel, you will need coal anyway. Elsewise, it sounds like you built a normal smelter instead of a magma smelter. HeWhoIsPale 21:02, 25 October 2008 (EDT)