—Information accurate as of: 25211 Update
The Furnace is a craftable item that can be used to smelt metals.
Usage[]
The Furnace can be used after it has been crafted and placed. To place the Furnace you must first craft it and move it to your Hotbar, from here you can move it around until the "Ghost Furnace" has turned Blue (Indicating it can be placed) Once the Furnace has been placed it can be operated by a player (Any number of players can operate it at the same time) and shows an empty 1x6 grid.
To use the Furnace a player must place Wood in it and ignite it.The furnace will burn up to two Wood and create the smelted version of the materials every 30 seconds. Players do not have to be near the Furnace for it to operate, and it will keep burning until it is turned off, runs out of fuel or if any item slot is filled and it cant find space for either the smelted material or charcoal. A byproduct of the process is Charcoal, which you need to make Gunpowder. Furnaces will smelt all slots simultaneously, so it is more efficient to smelt multiple stacks of the same ore at one time.
Crafting[]
The Furnace can be crafted with:
- 50 low grade fuel
- Each low grade fuel craft makes 4 low grade fuel. 13 crafts will make 52 low grade fuel which is enough to create the furnace. Each craft costs 3 animal fat and 1 cloth. Thus, 13 crafts will cost 39 animal fat and 13 cloth.
- 100 wood
- 200 stones
Repairing[]
The Furnace can be repaired with a Hammer:
- 27 low grade fuel
- 50 wood
- 98 stones
The Furnace can be repaired with a Repair Bench:
- 25 low grade fuel
- 50 wood
- 100 stones
Max Condition Loss = 20%
Smelting Rates[]
In Rust the conversion rates are usually 1:1.
Wood Burns at a rate of 30 wood per minute, or one wood every 2 seconds.
Unrefined Resource | Smelts Into | Unit Fuel Cost | Yield per Minute | Ore-Product Ratio |
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Metal Ore | Metal Fragments | 5 Wood | 6 Metal Fragments | 1:1 |
Sulfur Ore | Sulfur | 2.5 Wood | 12 Sulfur | 1:1 |
Wood | Charcoal | 1.33 Wood | 22.5 Charcoal | 4:3 |
High Quality Metal Ore | High Quality Metal | 10 Wood | 3 High Quality Metal | 1:1 |
Efficient Smelting[]
Metal Fragments[]
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Time to smelt: 33m20s
Yield:
600 Metal Fragments + 750 Charcoal
High Quality Metal[]
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Time to smelt: 33m20s
Yield:
300 High Quality Metal + 750 Charcoal
Sulfur[]
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Time to smelt: 27m50s
Yield:
1000 Sulfur + 626 Charcoal
Trivia[]
- Empty cans of beans and Empty tuna cans can be cooked in a furnace.
- The furnace is destructible and takes approximately 20 hits with a hatchet to break.
- The furnace uses about 5x as much fuel as a Large Furnace when smelting efficiently.