{"id":21097,"date":"2026-06-04T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/stationeers-furnace-smelting-ore-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:46:16","slug":"stationeers-furnace-smelting-ore-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/stationeers-furnace-smelting-ore-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Stationeers Smelting Guide: Furnaces, Ores &#038; Ingots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you build in Stationeers traces back to ingots, and ingots come from smelting ore in a furnace. But Stationeers smelting isn&#8217;t &#8220;insert and wait&#8221; \u2014 it&#8217;s a pressure-and-temperature puzzle. This guide covers mining ore, operating the furnace, the gas conditions for ingots and alloys, and the advanced arc furnace.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mining ore<\/h2>\n<p>Use a <strong>mining drill<\/strong> on the deformable voxel terrain to extract ores \u2014 iron, copper, gold, silicon, lead, nickel and more. Carry them back to base for processing. Early on, <strong>iron and copper<\/strong> cover most of your needs (and combine into steel), so prioritise finding those veins.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Operating the furnace<\/h2>\n<p>The furnace smelts ore into ingots, but it needs the right internal <strong>pressure and temperature<\/strong>. You feed <strong>gases<\/strong> into the furnace \u2014 typically a mix of <strong>volatiles and oxygen<\/strong>, which combust to raise temperature and pressure \u2014 and manage those conditions to produce ingots. Add the ore, hit the target conditions, and it smelts. Getting comfortable reading the furnace&#8217;s pressure and temperature gauges is the core skill.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alloys need precise conditions<\/h2>\n<p>Basic ingots are forgiving, but <strong>alloys<\/strong> are where smelting gets technical. Each alloy \u2014 <strong>steel, solder, invar, constantan, electrum<\/strong> and others \u2014 needs a specific <strong>pressure and temperature window<\/strong> and the correct ratio of input ingots in the furnace at once. Miss the window and you get the wrong output or waste material. Many players <strong>automate the furnace with IC10<\/strong> to hit and hold those exact conditions reliably \u2014 see the <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/stationeers-ic10-programming-guide\">IC10 guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The arc furnace<\/h2>\n<p>For simple, single-ore smelting the <strong>Arc Furnace<\/strong> is a fast, power-only option that turns one ore into one ingot with no gas management \u2014 great for bulk basic ingots. Use the regular furnace for alloys (which need mixing and precise conditions) and the arc furnace for quick single-metal smelting.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From ingots to components<\/h2>\n<p>Ingots feed the <strong>autolathe and electronics printer<\/strong> to produce the kits, cables, pipes and parts you build with. A steady ore-to-ingot pipeline is what lets your station keep growing, so set up reliable smelting early.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy production and furnace automation run smoothest on strong hardware. <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/stationeers-server-hosting\"><strong>Stationeers hosting from $8.50\/month<\/strong><\/a> on Ryzen 9, 30% off with <strong>XGAMEON<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How smelting works in Stationeers \u2014 mining ores, running the furnace, gas and pressure for alloys, and turning raw materials into the ingots you need to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stationeers-server-docs"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stationeers Smelting Guide: Furnaces, Ores &amp; 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