Oven - eerussianguy/firmalife GitHub Wiki

The Oven is used to make bake things in Firmalife. A lot of default TFC recipes are removed in favor of using this oven, such as baking bread. There are three different blocks that make up the Oven multiblock: the Oven, Oven Chimney, and Oven Wall. These are all obtained through knapping:

The rules for constructing an oven are as follows:

  1. Any oven block must be adjacent on either side to either an oven or a wall.
  2. Walls must have their flat side touching the oven.
  3. Each oven needs access to a chimney within two blocks to each side.
  4. Chimneys must be at least 3 blocks tall.

This is the simplest oven you can construct:

Chimneys can be two blocks to the left or right, if you like:

In order for your oven to be functional, you must cure the oven. Ovens can accept any fuel that TFC will accept in a firepit (typically this is charcoal, logs, or peat). All fuels burn at the same rate and temperature, producing the same end product - all fuels are the same and will always be consumed after the recipe completes. Even though you can put any item in the fuel slots (the back two slots of the oven), only fuel items will allow the oven to light. If you try to light an oven without the correct fuel or with only one fuel, it uses up the durability on your firestarter without a fire starting.

To cure your oven, put a piece of straw in the input slot in the front, with two pieces of fuel in the back, and light it. You can put stuff inside the oven with right click. When an oven is cured, it will also attempt to cure any adjacent walls or chimneys, but each oven block must cure itself. Make sure you cure all ovens in your structure before using them, or else your items might be lost! Below is the result of curing just one oven:

Ovens have no limit to how long they can be, provided they follow the above rules. However, don't be surprised if stuff doesn't work exactly right if you make a 100 block long oven! Longer ovens are more efficient. While you must be sure to use a robust fuel like logs to initially light an oven, that oven's fire immediately spreads to adjacent ovens with something in the fuel slots, regardless of the item (saplings, straw, your pick, dirt, etc - destroying whatever is in the fuel slot at the end of the cook time). So, 5 ovens in a row will burn up 2 logs and 8 straw to cook 5 loafs of bread, or to cure all 5 ovens (and adjacent oven walls and chimneys). Here's an example of a valid complete oven:

If your oven has been used recently, you can't take stuff out with your bare hands (unless you want to take damage). The solution is to craft a Peel, and right click on the oven using that, in order to avoid hurting yourself:

Ovens will heat each other through their warmth. That means, you can light one oven, and the rest will not need fuel, and will in fact light themselves!