Factorio Best Electric Furnace Setup

This guide began with a single furnace setup i wished to share but then i refined a few other ideas to be presentable.

Factorio best electric furnace setup. As its name implies it uses electricity rather than fuel to operate removing the need for a fuel belt. Luckily steel and electric furnaces both have the same smelting speed so the ratios will be the same for both and on top of that their speed is exactly double that of a stone furnace so 2 so we can just half all the above numbers. The stack compression ratio and the belt compression ratio. The stack compression ratio is how many stacks of input it takes to create one stack of output.

The electric furnace smelts items at the same speed as a steel furnace and also has two slots for modules however it is slightly larger than the other two tiers of furnaces. New research to unlock the higher tiers of electric furnace is also added. Early game pre electric furnaces the coal belt is on the opposite side of the furnaces and they have a space between so they can be replaced by electric furnaces that way when i upgrade i just remove the furnaces coal line and coal inserters in one simple sweep with my deconstruction planner and plop down electric furnaces. Meaning you need 24 12 per side for full saturation of yellow belt 48 24 per side for red belt and 70 35 per side for blue belt.

The compression ratio describes how efficiently a crafted item can be transported compared to its inputs. For example iron plate has a stack ratio of 2 1 because it takes 200 iron ore 2 stacks of 100. Although players used to produce arrays that could harbor 3 3 electric furnaces in the early days of the game remember that they just as fast as steel furnaces and if you use solid fuel material like coal are also more economical in terms of conserving energy. The electric furnace is the third and last tier of furnace.

There are two ratios to consider. Now that factorio 1 0 has released i felt it s time to get back in the game to fix the old designs and maybe make something new.