Blast furnace

Blast furnace
Details
Blast furnaces require foundrymen for production
Require:	Cast iron
Construction:	Brick
Consumes:	Mineral
Produces:	Iron
Other:	toggles on/off
Category:	Buildings

Blast furnaces provide work for foundrymen

You can construct and toggle a Blast furnace, on Buildings.

• A Blast furnace has a requirement to access and requires some resources to construct.
• Active Blast furnaces consume Mineral, to produce Iron by Foundrymen.

Access

Blast furnace appears, on Buildings, after you research Cast iron on Technologies.

• You can build Blast furnaces after you research Cast iron.
• Cast iron has a requirement to access and research.

Technology required:
Technology	Requirement	Research cost
Cast iron	invest Knowledge: 11 000 in Science or 13 000 in Economy or 15 000 in Military	Brick	50
		Knowledge	1 200

Construction

Blast furnace on Buildings

You can build a Blast furnace, on Buildings, after you research the required technology.

• You need 25 Bricks, to build your first Blast furnace.
• You need 40% more resources, each time you build another one.

Example costs:
Current Blast furnaces	Brick
0	25
1	35
2	49
3	68.6
...	...
n	25 × 1.4n

Consumption

• Active Blast furnaces consume 0.25 Mineral, for each Foundryman, per second.

You can toggle Blast furnaces, to be active or to stop consumption, with the 'Toggle' button. Active Blast furnaces stop production, if you do not have resources to maintain them.

Resources consumed:
Consumes	Rate
Mineral per Foundryman	0.25 per second

Production

• Active Blast furnaces produce 0.01 Iron, by each Foundryman, per second.

You can toggle Blast furnaces, to be active or to stop production, with the 'Toggle' button. Active Blast furnaces stop production, if you do not have resources to maintain them.

Resources produced:
Produces	Rate
Iron per Foundryman	0.01 per second

• Other factors increment Iron production

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