Smelters extract metals from ores
Access
- You can hire Smelters, after you build your first House.
- A House has a requirement to access and requires some resources to construct.
| Construction required: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Construct | Cost | |
| House on Buildings |
Wood | 20 |
| Mineral | 50 | |
| Food | 15 | |
Recruitment
You can hire Smelters, after you build your first House.
- You need 1 free Population and 50 Food to hire a Smelter.
| Resources required: | |
|---|---|
| Resource | Amount |
| Food | 50 |
| Population | 1 |
You can fire one Smelter at a time, with the 'Fire 1' button. Population remains allocated until you fire the Smelter.
Consumption
Smelters stop production, if you do not have resources to maintain them.
| Resources consumed: | |
|---|---|
| Consumes | Rate |
| Food | 0.10 per second |
| Mineral | 0.20 per second |
Production
- Smelters produce Copper and, after researching Metallurgy, also produce Gold.
Smelters stop production, if you do not have resources to maintain them.
| Resources produced: | |
|---|---|
| Produces | Rate |
| Copper | 0.10 per second |
| Gold | 0.001 per second |
- Other factors increment Copper production and increment Gold production.
Other
- Your available Copper, storage capacity, production rate and any bonuses to production, displays after you hire your first Smelter.
- Your available Gold, storage capacity, production rate and any bonuses to production, displays if you have a Smelter and have researched Metallurgy.
Trivia
Smelters have one of the hardest jobs, extracting metals from ores by a process of heating and melting. They consider themselves skilled technicians and look down upon foundrymen, who they deem to be mere factory workers. Smelters are skilled in extracting copper and can even extract gold, but not enough to be as rich as an adventure capitalist.
| Jobs |
|---|
| Woodcutter | Smelter | Farmer | Miner | Foundryman | Sailor | Scientist | Marketer |