Re-lighting coal exploit

hkrile · Post by **hkrile** » Fri May 12, 2017 5:25 pm

When someone smelts coal, a popular exploit is to put 11 coal into the smelters and let it run out, then to put one piece of high q coal in and re-light the smelters. The product metal will have its q occording to the last piece put in rather than the average of all coal that was used. I do believe this to be an exploit and it does need to be fixed where, regardless of whether the smelters go out, all coal used needs to affect the product metal.

Sevenless · Post by **Sevenless** » Sat May 13, 2017 3:07 am

Easy fix, reset ore burn progress if the smelter burns out.

hkrile · Post by **hkrile** » Sat May 13, 2017 3:47 am

indeed, this could also be another fix to this issue

infectedking · Post by **infectedking** » Sat May 13, 2017 4:37 am

or you could just leave it alone and let us have something nice.

MrPunchers · Post by **MrPunchers** » Sat May 13, 2017 4:38 am

infectedking wrote:or you could just leave it alone and let us exploit it

Sevenless · Post by **Sevenless** » Sat May 13, 2017 4:43 am

If you want something nice, it should be enshrined in mechanics instead of in bugs or mechanical exploits. Like back when boards could produce a fairly large amount of high Q coal for barely any extra effort. But then it was a no brainer, always use boards. As it is currently, there's some trade off for trash metal vs high Q stuff if you're actually playing it straight.

azrid · Post by **azrid** » Sat May 13, 2017 12:29 pm

I have been wasting so much coal.

Thedrah · Post by **Thedrah** » Sun May 14, 2017 6:42 am

if you're good, it only takes 11 coal to smelt a batch but it's in series, 11 puts the ores at 95/97% then switch and put in the next batch with 10coal and keep it rolling

jorb · Post by **jorb** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:10 am

Sevenless wrote:Easy fix, reset ore burn progress if the smelter burns out.

That... might work. Will consider. Thanks.

Post by **MagicManICT** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 3:20 pm

Decrease the quality by a percentage if the smelter burns out, or require more coal to be used... a hard reset just doesn't seem to make sense as part of the process is heating the rock so metals come out and the slag is left floating. Another option is that you get partial bars (lower % chance) and slag that has to be burned again (even lower % chance) to extract all metal.

I'm sure that a better solution than a hard reset can be figured out... (And while I'm thinking about it... do same for the steel crucibles?)

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