MXC Furnace Upgrade

201 votes

Whit the limited dropship space and the cost of this furnace. Makes it outdated and not worth getting. Recommend: Make it smelt steel and gold Or Making it a concrete level or thereabout Or add a second Furnace that is concrete level Or cheaper + add a second Furnace at the concrete level

Done QOL Suggestion Workshop Suggested by: Simon (22 Feb, '23) • Upvoted: 17 Nov, '23 • Comments: 21

Comments: 21

22 Jan, '22
Rimtuuk Merged
The description you have for the new MXC Furnace is "A premade furnace for all your smelting needs." Since it only smelts iron and copper and nothing else, that description is extremely misleading. If your description had been truthful, I wouldn't have wasted the money on it as the regular furnace is so easy to create.
26 Jan, '22
Explorer EUROPA_EXP2_3571 Merged
Its a joke and a liar in the description... ALL i need is a tool for 500+50 bucks to smelt STEEL and GOLD... not an 1 minute collecting thing what i can make with stone and wood... damn... lost so much time to grind for this crap thing......
11 Feb, '22
Stevil Merged
The MXC Furnace costs 800 Space Bucks to obtain (Because you have to buy the stupid coal thingy as well).

In the description it says "For all your smelting needs". However it only actually replaces the basic furnace in the build as you can only smelt Iron and Copper. In the patch notes from week 7 it says "Added MXC Furnance allowing players to shortcut some of the resource production chain.". It doesn't allow you to shortcut anything other than gathering a few basic resources to build a basic furnace from the basic crafting bench.

For it to be useful and to be worth the outlay, it should give you access to Steel Tier at least.
19 Feb, '22
Dissapointed Merged
This was the final straw for me in this game. "For all your smelting needs"??? Why can't the developers add accurate descriptions? This is a concrete furnace for an outrageous price. Moving on, nothing to see here.
24 Mar, '22
BisqueWhisk Merged
Add a second workshop furnace that allows smelting of all ores. Possibly balanced with pre-inaris workshop items. Allows tier 3 benefits without concrete, but tier four would still require concrete
03 Jun, '22
Angry Merged
It would make more sense if the MXC Furnace could smelt steel bloom as well as iron and copper ores, plus the ability to use other fuel sources in it ie: wood, coal etc without nerfing the smelt time to something ridiculously slow. That will just turn people off it and the game automatically.
07 Aug, '22
Shockwave Merged
Yeah I dont' get this furnance, it's no better than the stone furnace which I can carry to a cave and use to smelt the same ore.
04 Sep, '22
Ataxas_666 Merged
Yes and maybe smelt glass too for a faster start, actually the MXK Furnace is useless.
Smelting Iron, Copper, Steel and Glass would be very usefull and it would make sense to pay 500 Ren for researching it.
29 Dec, '22
Michael Lester-Garcia Merged
Yeah. MXC air tank and canteen? Essential.
Campfire, smelter, etc? Complete waste of time...

They need things to actually differentiate them.
04 Apr, '23
cmopatrick
Completely agree. It was nice on shorter missions before I got better weapons from the workshop, but now it just sits unused. I also agree that an alternative might be having a second :advanced" or maybe "Larkwell" workshop furnace that could do steel, gold, glass, and maybe platinum.
17 Apr, '23
Tinus
Agreed, it would be very useful for t3 stuff if it could smelt steel, gold and glass. Right now it's not worth it at all
19 Apr, '23
cmopatrick Merged
maybe combine with https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/365068/mxc-furnace-upgrade
19 Apr, '23
cmopatrick Merged
maybe this one also belongs in https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/365068/mxc-furnace-upgrade
19 Apr, '23
cmopatrick Merged
maybe this one also belongs in https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/365068/mxc-furnace-upgrade
19 Apr, '23
cmopatrick Merged
this looks like it might fit in https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/365068/mxc-furnace-upgrade
21 Apr, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"MXC Furnace upgrade: Allow steel bloom smelting and use of other fuel sources" (suggested by Angry on 2022-06-03), including upvotes (52) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.
21 Apr, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"MXC Furnace (Too expensive and doesn't do what it says on the tin!)" (suggested by Stevil on 2022-02-11), including upvotes (12) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.
21 Apr, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"[Suggestion] Fix EXTREMELY misleading MXC Furnace description" (suggested by Rimtuuk on 2022-01-22), including upvotes (7) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.
21 Apr, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"Add improved workshop furnace" (suggested by BisqueWhisk on 2022-03-24), including upvotes (24) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
28 Apr, '23
Thomas
I just modded it to be a concrete level furnace and twice the speed because i dont have time to wait all day for shit to smelt.
09 Aug, '23
Sabre070 - Designer Admin
There is a trade off between advancement. Now we've moved steel into t2, so you can jump straight to smelting that if you need, and the MXC furnace will speed that up.

It's definitely not the strongest workshop item at the moment, but if it were to smelt T3 it would trivialize too much - allowing you to completely skip to late T3.