However we know that electric furnaces are the same speed as steel furnaces and they are more energy efficient if you are using solid fuels like coal or solid fuel.
Factorio electric furnace efficiency.
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.
This is a compendium of the most common factorio facts as of v1 0 release.
You may find an essay on the subject which outlines the techniques used in this calculator here.
The electric furnace is the third and last tier of furnace.
Efficiency modules effectively reduce pollution by reducing energy usage.
As its name implies it uses electricity rather than fuel to operate removing the need for a fuel belt.
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.
A huge thanks to to all the contributors on github as well as the community who made the previous cheat sheets and other resources.
There are two ratios to consider.
The non electric setup produced 125 copper plates.
The block is centered around a substation that powers the 8 electric furnaces and can fit 10 beacons around it to improve efficiency.
Neat and compact furnace circuit and other designs.
The efficiency module reduces the cost of electricity to run the machine by 30.
This is only a sliver of the info available.
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.
The efficient electric setup produced 456 copper plates.
With 10 coal as the standard power input.
The compression ratio describes how efficiently a crafted item can be transported compared to its inputs.
The stack compression ratio is how many stacks of input it takes to create one stack of output.
The standard electric setup produced 116 copper plates.
Note that minimal energy usage is 20 of base energy usage.
It occupies a 3 3 area instead of a 2 2 area.
The stack compression ratio and the belt compression ratio.
For example iron plate has a stack ratio of 2 1 because it takes 200 iron ore 2 stacks of 100.
Proper handling of oil products.
Features of this calculator include.
This calculator is the result of a few years worth of fooling around off and on with performing calculations using factorio s recipe graph.
In the old days of factorio people used to make arrays that could accommodate 3x3 electric furnaces.
Electric furnaces with efficiency 3.
Such as the wiki reddit and factorio discord from which this is all based on.
Here is a picture of my setups.
