Unified Foundry

Author

Calen

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3635

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86%

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Updated

08/25/24

Created

04/14/24

Description

Unified Foundry

For Iron, Steel, Copper, Glass, Silicon, & Gold Smelting
v2.3.0
Author: Calen

Description

The Unified Foundry provides a single facility to produce everything that utilizes a molten channel. It is designed for use from mid to end game. The modules of the Unified Foundry are designed to link seamlessly together. Therefore, it is very important to read the description for each blueprint to read installation instructions and points of connection to the design. Also, be sure to check out the Peripherals subfolder, which has transport and ore crusher blueprints.

Stages of the Unified Foundry:

Note: See https://imgur.com/a/yX0XgXR for installation pictures

Stage 1: Initial Build for Iron, Steel, Copper, & Glass Smelting
Stage 1a: Recycling Center
Stage 2: Silicon Production
Stage 3: Cooling Tower Upgrade
Stage 4: Gold Smelting
Stage 5: Glass II Upgrade
Stage 6: Arc Furnace II Upgrade for Silicon
Stage 7: Arc Furnace II Upgrade for Everything Else

Note: The Recycling module is new and therefore may undergo further integration into the whole. For now, it's its own module. However, external ingress transport for scrap has now been removed. Also, I haven't updated the tables below to reflect its addition yet as I don't think it has reached its final state.

Transport System

Ingress and Egress transport modules have been revamped to connect with the Manufacturing Hub as part of a total transport system for your settlement. A transport system that works for everyone in all situations is overly difficult to design. Therefore, I have made the decision to limit the possible methods of connection. I will expand the options as I need to, but I wanted to get this first version of a wholistic system published.

Tips

Use the UF Footprint Guide blueprint to make sure you have enough space.
Start with constructing the pipes, conveyors, and storage first. Then construct the buildings as needed.
Upgrade conveyors to tier III as needed and able.

Metrics by Stage

Note: Total values with an x/x format indicate before/after Stage 7

Required Materials

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Total
Concrete	760		1200					1960
Construction Parts	1314	108				65	52	1487/1539
Construction Parts II	4742	332	49	161			665	5284/5949
Construction Parts III	10201	1889	486	1888	1252		321	15716/16037
Construction Parts IV						360	4620	360/4980
Electronics II						480		480
Rubber	2043	335		370	17		277	2765/3042
Steel	680				40			720

Buildings

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Final
Air Separator	6							6
Arc Furnace		6				-6		0
Arc Furnace II						6	33	6/39
Blast Furnace	4				-4			0
Blast Furnace II	29				4		-33	33/0
Burner (Solid)	6							6
Cooled Caster II	12							12
Cooling Tower	12		-12					0
Cooling Tower (Large)			6					6
Copper Electrolysis	24							24
Exhaust Scrubber	12							12
Fluid Storage III	3	1		1				5
Glass Maker	4				-4			0
Glass Maker II					4			4
Gold Furnace				6				6
Loose Storage II				1				1
Loose Storage III	11			1				12
Metal Caster II	34							34
Mixer	2				-2			0
Mixer II					2			2
Oxygen Furnace II	12							12
Settling Tank				12				12
Silicon Reactor		24						24
Smoke Stack	6							6
Smoke Stack (Large)	7							7
Unit Storage III	4	2		1				7

Functional Input

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Total
Workers	1162	120	108	64	36		1490
Power	17.5 MW	19.92 MW	6.24 MW	1.6 MW	15 MW	159.5 MW	60.26/219.76 MW
Compute					24 TFlops	132 TFlops	24/156 TFlops
Maintenance	392.9	49.8	34.2	29.8	-28.2	-136.3	342.2/205.9
Maintenance II					28.2	136.3	28.2/164.5

Resource Input

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Total
Acid	144			144	24			312
Broken Glass	144				144			144
Coal	471	36			24		-495	531/36
Copper Ore Crushed	432							432
Copper Scrap	576							576
Gold Ore Powder				432				432
Gold Scrap				54				54
Graphite		18					87	18/105
Hydrogen		72						72
Iron Ore Crushed	612							612
Iron Scrap	816							816
Limestone	75				24			99
Salt	24				24			48
Sand	96	144		18	96	144		498
Water	248.8		-52.4			9	49.5	205.4/254.9

Product Output

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Total
Copper	576					576
Glass	96			96		192
Gold			54			54
Iron	240					240
Silicon (poly)		144			144	288
Steel	288					288

Byproduct Output

Name	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 4	Stage 5	Stage 6	Stage 7	Total
Air Pollution	209.6	14.4	7.2	6.4	14.4	-105.6	252/146.4
Carbon Dioxide	628.8	43.2	21.6	19.2	43.2	-316.8	756/439.2
Slag	582	54		-24	54		666 :O
Sulfur	52.4	3.6	1.8	1.6	3.6	-26.4	63/36.6
Toxic Slurry			324				324

Earlier Versions (10)

Version	Release Date	Downloads
10 (Current)	08/25/2024	299
9	06/04/2024	2231
8	06/01/2024	150
7	05/30/2024	48
6	05/30/2024	1
5	05/20/2024	295
4	05/14/2024	92
3	04/28/2024	286
2	04/28/2024	11
1	04/23/2024	79

Comments (13)

Skellitor301

If this is meant to plug into your manufacturing hub, where is the carbon dioxide and slag meant to go? The pipes in the egress blueprints for these lines are not the same as the ones for the manufacturing hub and its transport belts. The manufacturing hubs lines are flat transports on those sections.

adsyde

Awesome job!

CaptainOfChaos

I ran into the same issue as Djinsomnia with the missing pipe, fwiw it only concerns the complete build, not if you build it in steps. The low steam pipe inputs are going into a balancer near the 4 cooling towers and there is a single piece of pipe missing for the output to the cooling towers. No biggie but easy to miss. Thanks for all the blueprints Calen and big compliments for the layouts and clear instructions! <3

abn1304

@Calen: Question for you.

It looks to me like the MH outputs for the Foundry don't match up with the transports/inputs for the MH. What am I missing?

Thanks! Love your blueprints - excellent work.

Calen

@Djinsomnia - I'm not seeing this problem. It could have been a misplacement or small unevenness of the ground, both of which have happened to me.

Djinsomnia

Hey, love the Blueprint works amazingly - Found a single pipe missing on the steam/Cooling tower lines between the exhaust scrubbers and cooling towers.
Took me an hour to figure out why everything was full of steam and cooling towers weren't working lol

Calen (edited)

@KT9Q - Good idea! I hadn't thought about that. I think the reason I hadn't is because I build an entire conveyor network for sulfur on my island. So in my games I'm not wasting it, I'm just shipping it elsewhere for processing into acid. But I really like the idea of processing it on site. I'll need another ingress water pipe for the water needed for mixers. I could use the former acid ingress pipe, although I may still need that if sulfur production doesn't meet acid needs. I'll bet there are scenarios where it doesn't. Also, where do I put the mixers? Your blueprint works for pre 2.2 builds, but after 2.2 the recycling module is in the way. I will ponder. Thanks again for the good idea.

KT9Q (edited)

Given how much sulfur this produces because of the exhaust scrubbers plus how much acid it needs its a shame there's not a couple of mixers built in to internalize the production of it.

Here is an upgrade to solve that:
https://hub.coigame.com/Blueprint/Detail/423

Feel free to do whatever with it.

Calen (edited)

@PiggyWhiskey - So... as it turns out, when I changed the piping for the large cooling tower above the gold foundry, I did not update the arc furnace II steam piping for the glass furnaces. Perhaps that was your issue? This has now been fixed. However, if you were still having difficulties (understandable since it's a complicated upgrade), I have added images here: https://imgur.com/a/yX0XgXR.

Lastly, I did update this blueprint with a completed build.

PiggyWhiskey

Any chance of getting a final stage complete blueprint?
I keep messing up the Copper/Iron/Steel upgrade to Arc Furnace 2

Calen

Thanks, Zapatosh!

Zapatosh

Nice Job, I really like your Blueprints, this one but also the others. Keep it up.

Calen (edited)

Change Log
v2.3.0 - Updated transport to connect more easily with other transports, particularly the Manufacturing Hub. This is now part of my Transport System.
Updated the Recycling module to be more integrated by removing scrap belts from ingress transport and instead have them be a part of this module.
Updated "Complete" blueprint. This should fix whatever problem there was with the steam pipes in the previous version.
v2.2.2 - Upgraded right-side exhaust filtration steam pipe to cooling towers to tier III.
Upgraded silicon exhaust pipe to tier III
v2.2.1 - Added a second egress transport with different orientation.
v2.2.0 - New Recycling Module.
Iron Ore Crusher has been updated to include balancers.
Ingress transport has been updated to account for recycling module.
Egress transport has been updated to include recyclables transport as well as updated to fit better with the Manufacturing Hub ingress transport.
Updated additional egress transport blueprints accordingly.

v2.1.5 - Fixed steam piping for glass furnaces in stage 7 blueprint. Added completed build blueprint.
v2.1.4 - Updated a couple transport paths.
v2.1.3 - Updated Arc Furnace II Upgrade blueprint to fix coal ingress transport for Silicon.
v2.1.2 - Updated exhaust piping to prevent instance of exhaust leakage to smoke stacks.
v2.1.1 - Updated blueprint to correct use of Flat Conveyor I in a small section.