In fact you may not need to add more gas at all, provided it keeps the furnace hot enough for your raw materials to be processed.
When increasing the quantities of raw materials to get more steel, do not increase the ice by the same amount. The ratio of the iron and coal is very important, but altering the gas ratios might let you get hotter or cooler flames in the furnace – check the ereader cartridge on your tablet for details about the pressure/temperature zone and reagent ratios to succesfully create the various alloys. You can of course use larger quantities, this was just the simplest version of the process. Hover over the glowing window to see the funace contents, once it’s burning well you should see “will produce a 4g ingot of steel”.Into the input hatch of your furnace, put 1 chunk of Ice (oxite), 2 chunks of Ice (Volatile), 1 chunk of coal, and 3 chunks of unrefined iron. I build a few more frames, weld some iron sheets here and there, add walls and a roof, which is just walls lying horizontally on top of the other walls, which I hopebut dont knowis a valid.SyncViews and me discussed this topic a lot while playing. Just make solar (or just accumulators) a late game technology, so that other energy sources can fill the gap between steam and solar. We can see there are some arrows that indicate the flow of the power while building it. Solar has barely any disadvantages (free, rather cheap, no pollution), so any new energy that gets implemented will probably not be able to compete. Put the big stacks back in your mining belt, and grab the ice chunks you dropped, one type in each hand. Power Now that we have our airlock wired up we just need energy for it to work, so we grab our solar panel kit and place it on the rooftop, then with a cable we connect it to an APC (power controller or area power controller).Probably stand somewhere flat so they don’t roll away. Split off one piece of Oxite ice, and two pieces of volatiles ice.In space, I guess you might need to find a shadowed spot? Wait until nighttime (so the ices don’t evapourate while you’re working with them).Leave the Ices in your mining belt, but have it equiped.If necessary, split your stacks of unrefined iron and coal into the correct proportions, and put them in your uniform pockets (4) or suit (3).Make sure you can access the top, and that things that fall out the bottom won’t roll away. Make a furnace at your autolathe (“Kit (Furnace)”, 30g iron, 10g copper).Absolutely minimal steel refining process.