Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25565811-20160207152158

As I wrote the page for furnaces and forges, I also included an auto-unsmeltery (see image to the left). This works prefectly fine for unsmelting and with all the mod forges/ovens, ...

... as long, as you don't alloy with it. '''Has anyone figured out, if it's possible to auto-feed the alloy slot? If not, what ideas have you got for adding this feature?'''

If people happen not to know, how it works, here the explanation:
 * The top chest takes whatever to be cooked (hobbit oven), smelted (forges, vanilla furnace), or unsmelted (unsmeltery).
 * The left chest takes the fuel. (Can also be right, front, back.)
 * The bottom chest takes the finished product (cooked food, ingots, ...)
 * You can leave out the chests and only use hoppers, there's only fewer space then.

The only thing, that works, that I figured out, is to fill the alloy slots in advance, and then auto-feed the rest. My proposal is to also auto-feed the alloy slots from the hopper above, if there is something in it, what only fits this slot (like quendite). If something is in the hopper, that fits none of the slots, it stays there forever, potentially clogging it up.

Probably it gets a bit tricky, when it comes to bronze (both ingredients fit both slots) or (as a hopper is involved), when the hopper fills completely up with iron ore, and the coal in the chest never gets through to make dwarven/elven/orkish steel. Probably, that's your own problem, to sort your ingredients in the chest in the propper way, so that the hopper takes them alternating.


 * Did I miss something?
 * Do you need/use it?
 * Some suggestions? 