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Game Mechanic: Beehive Kiln
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Beehive Kiln
A beehive kiln allows you to fire large amounts of clay items at once. Similar to the Cementation Furnace, the Beehive Kiln requires a door: the kiln door. Place the door, and thenCtrl + rightmouse click on it, and a 'blueprint' of ghost blocks will appear. The kiln has three required types of blocks: refractory bricks, refractory brick gratings, and iron hatch doors. Regular fireclay brick versions of the blocks, gratings, and kiln door can also be used, but will degrade faster.
The interior volume of the kiln is 3x3x3 blocks. The floor of this space must be composed of nine refractory gratings. You also have the option to place refractory gratings in the middle layers of the space, which acts as shelving for a second level of clay products. Three iron hatch doors are required, and must be placed one in each of the other walls that don't have the kiln door.
Directly below each of the nine floor gratings, must be placed a pile of fuel - the piles do not need to be completely full, but you need at least some fuel in all 9 spots. You can use any stackable fuel from wood to coal. The walls and floor of this fuel chamber can be any material. Once you have filled the kiln with clay products, ignite the fuel piles and close the door. After several cycles, there will be a chance for the refractory bricks to become damaged and require replacement, similar to the cementation furnace. This wear will accumulate whenever fuel is burning in all nine spots, so it is best to only use as much fuel as necessary to finish your batch. After the cycle is finished, the clay products will be hot and require tongs to handle.
Producing Colored Ceramics
The iron hatch doors in the kiln walls are used to control the color of ceramics produced by the kiln. The more of the iron hatch doors you have open, the more oxygen will reach the fuel, and the darker the final color of the ceramics will be. In this way, you can get as many as four different ceramic colors from a single type of clay.
A beehive kiln allows you to fire large amounts of clay items at once. Similar to the Cementation Furnace, the Beehive Kiln requires a door: the kiln door. Place the door, and then
The interior volume of the kiln is 3x3x3 blocks. The floor of this space must be composed of nine refractory gratings. You also have the option to place refractory gratings in the middle layers of the space, which acts as shelving for a second level of clay products. Three iron hatch doors are required, and must be placed one in each of the other walls that don't have the kiln door.
Directly below each of the nine floor gratings, must be placed a pile of fuel - the piles do not need to be completely full, but you need at least some fuel in all 9 spots. You can use any stackable fuel from wood to coal. The walls and floor of this fuel chamber can be any material. Once you have filled the kiln with clay products, ignite the fuel piles and close the door. After several cycles, there will be a chance for the refractory bricks to become damaged and require replacement, similar to the cementation furnace. This wear will accumulate whenever fuel is burning in all nine spots, so it is best to only use as much fuel as necessary to finish your batch. After the cycle is finished, the clay products will be hot and require tongs to handle.
Producing Colored Ceramics
The iron hatch doors in the kiln walls are used to control the color of ceramics produced by the kiln. The more of the iron hatch doors you have open, the more oxygen will reach the fuel, and the darker the final color of the ceramics will be. In this way, you can get as many as four different ceramic colors from a single type of clay.