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The Tinker's Construct Smeltery is a variably sized [[multiblock]] structure necessary to progress in the [[Stone Age]]. It's primary use is casting basic metal parts before the [[MV]] [[Extruder]], mass-processing dusts or ingots, recycling metal items, creating casts, molds or extruder shapes, and solidifying glass blocks. Its functions are taken over by various specialized GregTech machines in later
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File:SmelterySmallest.png|alt=A 1x1 Smeltery with a lit controller, single empty space in the middle of four blocks, and a casting table to the front left with a light gold ingot cast.|1x1 Smeltery
File:SmelteryCrosssection.png|alt=Cross-section of a 2x2 Smeltery|alt=a side view of a partial smeltery multiblock. There is a 2x2 base of black bricks on the bottom, two high walls left, right and back with no blocks on the bottom edges. On the right are a faucet and casting basin.|2x2 cross-section
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The Smeltery can be built with any interior footprint from 1x1 up to
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== Usage ==
[[File:SmelteryGUI.png|thumb|alt=Light grey GUI with individual copper ingots being melted on the left, each with a rising heat bar from red to yellow. The middle has a scroll bar, then a large tank with pink and yellow fluids. The tooltip to the right says Molten Aluminum Ingots: 141 Nuggets:2. A lava fluid gauge is mostly hidden by the tooltip.|Smeltery GUI]]
[[File:SmelteryEnderman.png|thumb|alt=A endstone colored Enderman standing in a dark teal pool of fluid inside a Smeltery.|Melting Endermen for fun and profit!]]
The speed of the Smeltery is constant based only on the type of material being melted. While processing, it consumes Lava at a rate of 30L/4s. Number of items being processed does not affect the Smeltery's fuel consumption, thus a larger Smeltery is more efficient as the number of simultaneous items is equal to one per interior block volume. A 3x3 footprint is suggested as the standard size.
Items to be melted can be manually placed into the Controller, or added via a Hopper, pipe or conduit. To change what fluid is output if there are multiple, open the Controller's GUI and right-click on the desired fluid in the tank. Hold shift to see quantities displayed in mb instead of ingots/nuggets. To output fluid, right-click on a Faucet with a valid cast or basin recipe for the bottom-most liquid in the Controller. Alternately, fluid pipes or fluid conduit can be used to move fluids from the Smeltery into Casting Basin(s) or Casting Table(s), or the Faucets can be pulsed with a [[Redstone Clock]] for continuous output. Hoppers or other [[item logistics]] can also pull items out of Casting Basins and Casting Tables, for full automation. Molten materials in the smeltery will damage any entities that fall in. This can be used to harvest some fluids, such as Liquid Ender from Endermen, Glue from Horses, and Blood from the player/Villagers.
To use a Casting Table, Casts are required. These can only be made out of Aluminum Brass, which is an alloy of copper and aluminium, or single-use casts can be made from four Clay in a crafting table. The Smeltery automatically alloys any molten fluids in its inventory. To make a cast, pour Molten Aluminum Brass over an appropriate item inserted into the Casting Table with right-click. The item will be lost in the process, but casts are infinitely reusable. Use Cobblestone in the Part Builder whenever possible for sacrificial cast making parts.
The Casting Basin makes blocks, but has very limited uses in GT:NH. The primary one is glass, followed by Brownstone for faster paths and Seared Stone for expanding the Smeltery. Metal blocks are restricted to the [[Compressor]]. Melting stone is slow and takes twenty blocks to yield one Seared Stone, but does have the advantage of being automatic vs. crafting more grout and bricks.
Molten metals from the Smeltery cannot be used in GregTech recipes, with the exception of crossbow bolts. Bolts require Smeltery melted metal to craft. To extract the molten metal from the Smeltery pour 1,000mb/L into an iron bucket right-clicked onto a Casting Table, or any amount into a fluid container such as Tank (BC Factory/Iron Tanks), Fluid Tank (EnderIO or GregTech), or Seared Tank (Tinkers). Smeltery molten metals cannot be placed in IC2 cells but can be picked up with Large Fluid Cells from a tank. Fluid pipes can also be used for [[logistics]].
== Troubleshooting ==
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* Metal blocks are only made with Compressors
* Casts can only be made with Aluminum Brass, not Gold
* The Controller's GUI only shows one Seared Tank's lava at a time, though it will use them in series.
* Molten metals made in the Smeltery can't be used for GregTech recipes; use a [[Fluid Extractor]].
** Exception: Making Bolts. Bolts require metal melted in the Smeltery for the [[Fluid Solidifer]] recipes.
* Higher tier metal parts are made in the [[Extruder]] with casts, not the Smeltery
* [[NEI]] will only show wooden parts for making casts, but wooden parts cannot be crafted; use cobblestone.
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* Chisel Clear Glass to get vanilla Glass and other variants.
* Smeltery contents is stored in the Controller. Any other block can be added/removed and it will keep its contents.
* Universal Fluid Cells can pick up fluids from partially filled casts with Shift + right-click.
* Dump fluids into the Smeltery by right-clicking or piping into a Drain.
* One of the few GT compatible fluids the Smeltery can make is molten glass, but it has to be poured out into a bucket.
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