Fire and slow stations

A station is a block that transforms what it holds over time. You place it from its item like any block, then open it with the interact key (E): its slots appear beside your inventory, like a chest’s. Every station has input slots and output slots; the fire stations also have fuel slots. This guide covers the stations of the first camp. Metal is in Metalworking, the stews and preserves in Food and preservation.

How a station works

1. Fill the inputs. A run starts as soon as the inputs hold exactly what a recipe asks, and nothing else. If they hold several times the recipe, all of those runs are made together in one duration, as long as the outputs have room.
2. Fuel and light it (fire stations only). Put fuel in the fuel slots, then press E on the station with a Fire Starter or a Torch in hand. A fire starter is used up, a torch is not. A station without fuel cannot be lit.
3. Wait for the heat. While the fire burns, the temperature climbs toward the hottest its fuel allows; without fire it falls back toward 15 °C. A recipe only progresses while the station is at least at the recipe’s temperature.
4. Take the result from the output slots.

Changing the inputs to another recipe loses the progress. A fire gone out, a station too cold or full outputs only pause it. Stations run while their chunk is loaded; when you come back, a station makes up for the time you were away, at most 3600 game seconds (three game days).

Fuels

Each fuel burns for a number of game seconds at an open fire’s pace. Logs and peat burn at the station’s own fire temperature; only Charcoal has a hotter fire of its own.

Fuel	Burns	Fire temperature
Stick	30 s	the station’s
Logs (willow to beech)	90 to 170 s	the station’s
Peat	200 s	the station’s
Charcoal	300 s	1150 °C

Beech logs last longest (170 s), oak, ash, yew and chestnut 150 s, willow only 90 s.

Campfire

The first station: made by hand from four sticks and three pebbles of any stone.

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Campfire

It has 2 input slots, 2 fuel slots and 2 output slots. Its fire heats it by 25 °C a second and cools it by 8 °C a second once out. On wood or peat it reaches 600 °C, on charcoal 1150 °C, enough to melt copper in a crucible set on top of it (see Metalworking).

Inputs

• Raw Meat

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Outputs

• Cooked Meat

Time

⏱ 40 seconds

Temperature

🌡 150 °C

Inputs

• 4 × Bark

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Outputs

• Birch Tar

Time

⏱ 60 seconds

Temperature

🌡 300 °C

Recipe	Inputs	Output	Time	At least
Cook fish	1 raw fish	Cooked Fish	30 s	150 °C
Bake flatbread	1 Barley Flour	2 Flatbread	30 s	150 °C
Bake bread	2 Rye Flour	Bread	60 s	180 °C
Bake white bread	2 Wheat Flour	White Bread	60 s	180 °C
Bake meat pie	1 wheat flour, 1 raw meat	Meat Pie	80 s	180 °C
Render tallow	2 Fat	Tallow	60 s	100 °C
Burn wood ash	4 Stick	Wood Ash	30 s	200 °C

Birch tar is one of the bindings that haft flint heads onto sticks (see Knapping, clay and smithing).

Pit kiln

A pit of earth, firewood and reeds that fires clay. It is made at the workbench from four dirt, two logs of any tree and two reeds.

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Pit Kiln

It has 4 input slots, 4 fuel slots and 4 output slots. It is slow, heating by only 5 °C a second, but its wood fire reaches 900 °C, the hottest of the camp: about two and a half minutes of game time from cold to 800 °C. Keep its fuel slots stocked, since a firing outlasts any single log.

Inputs

• Raw Crucible

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Outputs

• Fired Crucible

Time

⏱ 5 minutes

Temperature

🌡 600 °C

Inputs

• Limestone

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Outputs

• 2 × Lime

Time

⏱ 5 minutes

Temperature

🌡 800 °C

Raw piece	Fired piece	Time	At least
Raw Clay Bowl	Fired Clay Bowl	240 s	600 °C
Raw Clay Pot	Fired Clay Pot	300 s	600 °C
Raw Clay Jar	Jar	300 s	600 °C
Raw Ingot Mold, axe head, pickaxe head and blade molds	the fired mold	300 s	600 °C
2 Raw Brick	Bricks	300 s	800 °C
2 Raw Roof Tile	Roof Tiles	300 s	800 °C
Limestone	2 Lime	300 s	800 °C

The raw pieces are shaped on the clay board (see Knapping, clay and smithing). Lime goes into mortar, plaster, glass, the cupel hearth and the scraping of hides.

Charcoal pile

Wood smouldered under earth into charcoal. It is made at the workbench from four logs and four dirt.

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Charcoal Pile

Inputs

• 4 × Oak Log

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Outputs

• 3 × Charcoal

Time

⏱ 20 minutes

Temperature

🌡 300 °C

1. Place the pile, then put four logs of any tree in its input slot and one fuel in its fuel slot.
2. Cover it: the block right above the pile must be solid, or the wood does not char.
3. Light it with a fire starter or a torch.

The pile heats by 3 °C a second up to 700 °C and burns its fuel at a quarter of an open fire’s pace, so one oak log keeps it going for 600 game seconds. The run takes 1200 game seconds, a whole game day, at 300 °C or more, and gives three charcoal. Charcoal is the fuel that melts copper and the only one hot enough for the cupel hearth.

Drying rack

Four sticks and two plant twine, made by hand. It has 4 input and 4 output slots, no fire and no fuel: it simply dries what hangs on it, at any temperature.

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Drying Rack

Inputs

• Hide

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Outputs

• Rawhide

Time

⏱ 15 minutes

Recipe	Input	Output	Time
Dry hide	Hide	Rawhide	900 s
Dry meat	Raw Meat	Dried Meat	600 s
Dry mud brick	Raw Mud Brick	Mud Bricks	900 s
Dry mugwort	2 Mugwort Leaves	Dried Mugwort	300 s
Malt barley	Barley	Malt	600 s
Ret flax	Flax	2 Flax Fibre	1200 s
Ret hemp	Hemp	2 Hemp Fibre	1200 s

Rawhide is a binding for tools; the malt goes to the brewing barrel.

Tanning pit

A plank lined pit of bark liquor that turns hides into leather. It is made at the workbench from five planks of any wood.

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Tanning Pit

It has 2 input and 2 output slots and no fire, but it only works with water in one of the four cells beside it (north, south, east or west). Build it on a shore or dig a channel to it.

1. Scrape a hide first, by hand: a Hide, a Lime and a knife (the knife loses one point of durability) give a Scraped Hide.
2. Put the scraped hide and four Bark in the pit.

Inputs

• Scraped Hide
• 4 × Bark

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Outputs

• Leather

Time

⏱ 1 hour

The soak lasts 3600 game seconds, three game days. Leather makes the bellows of the forge, the pouches and the leather armour.

Other stations of the same family

• The Smokehouse (planks, stone and thatch at the workbench) smokes meat and fish over a smouldering fire that burns a quarter as fast as an open one and never passes 90 °C: 900 game seconds at 40 °C or more.
• The Cooking Pot has its own small fire (up to 300 °C) for stews and remedies.
• The Salting Tub and the Brewing Barrel need no fire at all.

See Food and preservation and Herbalism for their recipes. The Brazier is a light, not a station: it holds no slots.

Inputs

• Raw Meat

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Outputs

• Smoked Meat

Time

⏱ 15 minutes

Temperature

🌡 40 °C