Coke Oven

Coke Oven
Mod	Railcraft
Type	Tile Entity
Tooltip Text	Mobs cannot Spawn on this Block
Relevant Quest	Getting (Char)coal Why One Coke Oven When You Can Have Ten?
Tier	Stone
Size	3x3x3 (hollow)
Pollution	3 gibbl/s
Properties:
Blast resistance	1.0
Hardness	6.0
Energy:
Energy usage	None
Item capacity	x1 stack & 64,000L

Introduction

A multiblock Coke Oven allows the creation of better fuel with a byproduct of Creosote Oil without the usage of power. Coke Ovens will not wallshare and cannot be built adjacent to each other. This is one of the first multiblock structures a player is likely to build, along with the Water Tank in Stone Age.

Structure

Coke Oven under construction, formed, and working. Note hollow interior.

A 3*3*3 hollow cube of coke oven bricks. One Coke Oven requires:

• 26 Coke Oven Brick (block)
• made from: 104 Coke Oven Brick (item)
  • made from: 105 Clay & 175 Sand, with one brick left over.

Usage

You can use the Coke Oven to produce Charcoal from logs and Coal Coke from Coal. Charcoal cannot be turned into Coal Coke.

• Wood --> Charcoal
• Coal --> Coal Coke
• Cactus --> Cactus Coal --> Cactus Coke
• Sugar Cane --> Sugar Coal --> Sugar Coke

Creosote

Creosote is a byproduct of the Coke Oven. It can be loaded into metal buckets or Seared Tanks through the GUI or right-clicking on the Coke Oven itself. Creosote can be used to craft torches or burned in Furnaces, Iron Furnaces, Boiler Fireboxes or Semi-Fluid Generators for early game Steam power. In LV it's also used as a lubricant. If you truly have an excess of creosote, Coke Ovens can be voided by breaking the bottom center block and then rebuilding the multi-block structure. Automated voiding is gated to LV.

• Better torch recipe (1 Bucket Creosote + 1 Stick + 1 Wool = 5x Torches)
• Good furnace fuel (being able to smelt 32 items per bucket - bucket is not consumed)
• Decent fuel for your RC Steam Boilers (using buckets of creosote oil in the solid-fueled firebox seems to have a lower fuel efficiency than piping creosote oil into liquid-fueled firebox)
• Fuel for combustion generator (the efficiency of it is kinda meh compared to other fuel source available in LV)
• Distill into lubricant (not a very bad source of it considering you will end up with A LOT of creosote oil)
• Crafting component in various Forestry Carpenter recipes. (Multi-block farms and Compartments)

Caution

For all railcraft multiblocks, the fluid is saved on the center of the bottom layer of the multiblock (i.e. the coke oven bricks block on the middle of the bottom 3*3 layer). Breaking it or re-centering the broken multiblock using another brick as the center will void all the fluid contained within. If you find yourself with a surplus of Creosote Oil and no way to stockpile it, breaking the bottom center block to void the excess is an option.

Automation

The image below shows a Basic automatic Coke Oven that will automatically pull items from the left storage that can be cooked in the coke oven and take out the resulting items and put them in the right storage. It also features a creosote oil drainer which must be activated by hand unless a Redstone clock is attached to the tinker's faucet.