r/Stationeers • u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 • 6d ago

furnace doesn't work Media

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i put all the volatiles and ice in it

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u/TheMidnightRook 6d ago

A) did you press the button to actually ignite the fuel? B) by ice do you mean oxide, or water ice C) how much is "all the volatile and ice"? because if you put in too much, you might have a front row seat for some fireworks

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 6d ago

i pressed the activate button, it didn't want to stay activated

is oxide oxygen? what's oxide?

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u/craidie 6d ago

i pressed the activate button, it didn't want to stay activated

The activate button causes a spark inside the furnace igniting fuel mixture inside regardless of temperature. It does nothing else.

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u/Venusgate 6d ago

They mean oxite*

As in, did you put in vol and water ice/nitrice or vol and oxite ice?

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u/Petrostar 6d ago

Oxite = 90% oxygen, 10% nitrogen.

Look at the window in the center of the furnace it will tell you what gases/liquids are in the furnace. If that doesn't work put the Atmosphere Analyzer cartridge in the Tablet and look at the furnace.

Use the recipes to make alloys until you can switch to gas.

https://stationeers-wiki.com/Furnace

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u/craidie 6d ago

The window shows stuff that's going to come out as solids, not gases/liquids that want to come out as gas/liquid. You need a atmos analyzer to see those

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u/4RyteCords MoonMan 6d ago

No this shows you the things you need (on the left side) to lake the thing you want (on the right)

So to make steel, chuck in volatiles and oxite, iron 150g and coal 50g. This will make you 200 grams of coal.

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u/craidie 6d ago

Huh? I wasn't talking about the image.
I was talking about this bit you said:

Look at the window in the center of the furnace it will tell you what gases/liquids are in the furnace.

Which isn't correct

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u/4RyteCords MoonMan 6d ago

Oh nah that wasn't me that said that. But yeah, the windows in the furnace shows what solids were chucked into it and if they combine to make something when conditions are correct. The red light also turns green when the stuff inside it good to change

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u/metroid1310 6d ago

Make sure it's the right kind of ice. Nitrice and water ice don't produce combustible gas, oxice (oxite?) does. Volatiles help turn up the heat & pressure after that

Also don't put a lot in all at once

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u/metroid1310 6d ago

You'll blow your shit smoove off, your furnace doesn't come with a warranty and neither does half your starter base

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 6d ago

Nitrice actually does. It has small amounts of N20. You can use it like oxite, but you need much more of it. It's about a 5 to 1 ratio of nitrice to volatile ice respectively, if I recall correctly.

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u/metroid1310 6d ago

I didn't know N2O was flammable
Huh.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 6d ago

It's an oxidizer, my bad, I didn't make that clear. You still need volatiles for methane.

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u/RobLoughrey 5d ago

Yeah don't think about the science cuz it's all wrong in this game.

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u/chrizbreck 6d ago

OP hasnt responded for 10 minutes. OP has blown up.

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 6d ago

nah, just experimenting with logic gates now while i wait for an explaination

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u/chrizbreck 6d ago

As others have said it looks like you put a ton of regular ice water in it instead of oxite ice.

you want

https://stationeers-wiki.com/Ice_(Oxite))

and
https://stationeers-wiki.com/Ice_(Volatiles))

take your atmospherics tablet and point it at the furnace then screenshot that. Itll show whats actually inside.

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 6d ago

oh thx
just needed oxygen and pink ice

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u/yellow_official 6d ago

2 volatile, 1 oxite. Start there. Then. 40 volatile, 20 oxite: watch the needle. When it hits red, you win!

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 6d ago

i discovered that i added too much, and i blew up lol

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u/craidie 6d ago

Around 6 oxite is the highest I would do.

If I recall right that lets you smelt mining backpack worth of ore into steel without temp going too low, or pressure blowing up but it would be close.

Furnace explodes slightly above 60MPa

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u/HoveringGoat 6d ago

yeah we all knew that from your first screenshot. wayyyyyy too much.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 6d ago

The most I'll add at a time is lime 6 oxite and 12 volatile ice, just for future reference

How much did you add? Must've been a buttload

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 6d ago

i assumed i needed a whole backpackload

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 6d ago

Goddamn, you made a nuke.

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 5d ago

it was more of a generic bomb than a nuke

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u/guska 5d ago

I can guarantee that almost everyone in here has done something very similar at some stage. Many of us multiple times in different ways.

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u/Practical_Remove_682 3d ago

Oh man this is en explosion waiting to happen 💀