[Suggestion] Ingots should not take more space than ore

84 votes

Iron and copper ore stack to 50, and smelts 2:1 into ingots that stack to 20. So 50 ore produces 25 ingots which takes 2 inventory slots, up from the 1 that was being consumed by the ore used to produce it.

Smelting ore into ingots should make it take less overall space, not more. As the ore is being formed into a more efficient shape.

Titanium and Platinum do this a little better, in that it stacks to 100 and smelts 5:1 producing a single stack of 20 ingots, at least maintaining a 1:1 ratio of inventory slots used from ore stack to ingot stack.

And then we have aluminum... I'm pretty sure a dev was drunk when he wrote out the numbers for aluminum smelting. :)

In short, ore should be a less efficient means of storing material, and ingots should be more efficient. At the moment it is at best a straight across trade between the two for some materials, but often a loss.

Under consideration QOL Suggestion Suggested by: Alan (20 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 23 Mar • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

24 Dec, '21
shin0bi272
I suggested changing the stack sizes of ingots to 50 or 100 myself a while ago. Never heard anything about it. Its especially frustrating because of the limited space for stacks in things but you get used to it. Plus you can pull stuff out of your inventory in a bench to make things so its not the worst thing ever just annoying.
13 May, '23
cmopatrick
One of the many things that doesn't even make game sense. When you smelt any ore, you remove impurities, meaning the cooled result takes up less space.

And I agree with the above comment about aluminum; bauxite is a long way from 1:1 pure. In fact, the process to realize metal aluminum from ore is so complex that in the early 1800s, aluminum was a luxury metal more valuable than gold (Napoleon actually had his stock melted and made into aluminum eating utensils that only he and his most important guests were allowed to use).
11 Nov, '23
Chris
Aluminium should both take up less space and have the exchange rate changed. I end up with cupboards full of the stuff by end game, it's just not that useful. Yet I'm scrounging for copper constantly.