Multi-block structures.

[explorerbee]

Our favorite game has everything you need to start developing. Take clay pits as an example. All these are rather primitive technologies and, accordingly, the game needs analogs that allow at least to facilitate or speed up this process.
I suggest adding a multi-unit structure to the game, such as a clay kiln. I would like such a furnace to be made on the principle of a steel processing furnace or a coke oven.
As I can see it roughly: first we build this oven. In the oven itself, there should be grates for the flow of heat inside. As I read, the process of firing clay is gradual, that is, you need to keep different temperatures inside the furnace during the time of firing the clay. How to do it? Use different combustible materials at each stage of firing, from, say, peat to charcoal. You will say that it is dreary, but I will say that it is convenient due to the number of clay items that we can get.
Perhaps this is all that I could normally think of from multi-block structures. I would also like to see a smelter for the production of alloys on an industrial scale, but I have no idea how it works and how it can be properly balanced. Perhaps someone else will have their own ideas and wishes.

[explorerbee]

[Maelstrom]

8 hours ago, explorerbee said:

 I would also like to see a smelter for the production of alloys on an industrial scale, but I have no idea how it works and how it can be properly balanced. Perhaps someone else will have their own ideas and wishes.

Have you seen the maximum capacity of a single crucible?  Consider that you can then have multiple crucibles heating simultaneously.

Hope you have lots (and I mean LOTS) of molds ready.

[Silent Shadow]

8 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

Have you seen the maximum capacity of a single crucible?  Consider that you can then have multiple crucibles heating simultaneously.

Hope you have lots (and I mean LOTS) of molds ready.

Nah, we need a blast furnace capable of 100,000 units a day.

[explorerbee]

13 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

Have you seen the maximum capacity of a single crucible?  Consider that you can then have multiple crucibles heating simultaneously.

Hope you have lots (and I mean LOTS) of molds ready.

That is why we need a clay kiln

In general, yes, I was not sure about her, I kind of wrote it right away. But let's imagine that invar-type alloys (iron + nickel) are added to the game. You can hardly melt them in a crucible. But this is only if you imagine ...

[Maelstrom]

15 hours ago, Silent Shadow said:

Nah, we need a blast furnace capable of 100,000 units a day.

Might I suggest Satisfactory or Factorio?  

[Silent Shadow]

4 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

Might I suggest Satisfactory or Factorio?  

Too many locust....

 

Good game though.