Coke Oven (Railcraft)

The Coke Oven is a 3x3x3 structure built similarly to the Blast Furnace. It is used to produce Coal Coke (used as an alternative to Charcoal in the Blast Furnace) and Creosote Oil. The structure is made by placing Coke Oven Bricks in 3x3x3 cube without the middle block. 104 Bricks and 130 Sand are required to create one Coke Oven, a total of 26 Coke Oven Bricks.

You will know that the structure is complete when a window appears in the center block on each side of the Coke Oven.

The Coke Oven Structures cannot be made next to each other, there must be a one block gap between all Coke Ovens to stop them from connecting.

Much like the Blast Furnace, the Coke Oven can be loaded and unloaded via Loaders or Buildcraft pipes. The entire 3x3x3 Coke Oven is treated as a single block, similar to a large chest. This means that coal and buckets can be piped in from any side, and oil and coal coke can be piped out from any side. When using Redpower tubes, the top is for adding fuel (coal/logs) and the sides are for extracting products (coal coke and cans/cells/etc.).

The process of burning a single piece of coal takes 2 and a half minutes. Burning coal produces Coal Coke, which smelts for 4x longer than regular coal. The Coke Oven does not continue to burn whilst the Coke Oven is not loaded. It takes approximately two hours and 40 minutes to convert a full stack of Coal to Coal Coke.

Extraction of Creosote Oil Placing a Bucket in the Coke Oven's inventory (on the right) will fill the Bucket with Creosote Oil. Wooden Waterproof Pipes can also be used to take Creosote Oil into Tanks. The Coke Oven will not function if the inventory of the Coke Oven is full with Creosote Oil. Each time a coal is burned to produce a Coal Coke, 500 mB (half a bucket) of Creosete Oil will be produced. Tips and Tricks If you are thinking of using creosote oil to run a fully sized liquid powered High Pressure Boiler you would need 300 coke ovens to keep the boiler filled up with oil all the time because the boiler uses 1 bucket (1000mB) a second and a coke oven produces half a bucket (500mB) of creosote oil every 150 seconds (2 and a half minutes). So to produce a bucket per second you would need 300 coke ovens. This would require 7800 coke oven bricks so it is a ridiculous amount of resources, however this would be a very powerful setup especially if you are using wood. You can put most types of wood into the Coke Oven and get Charcoal and Creosote Oil.

Recipe for a Coke Oven Brick A Coke Oven Brick is created by crafting Sand and Bricks together in a checkered pattern in a Crafting Table. You may also use the cosmetic version of Coke Oven Bricks, Sandy Bricks, but the raw resource cost remain 4 bricks and 5 sand.