Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-76.121.146.94-20130404023925/@comment-23270394-20131009014131

71.114.134.211 wrote: Starblind11 wrote: There's not a lot of wiggle room really, the only choice you have is between using 5 iron + normal furnace or 8 iron to make the iron furnaces (clearly you choose to use normal furnace + 5 iron to save on total iron used... I don't know why nobody gets that it dosen't matter which way you make it, a generator still costs 8 iron. The only difference is how much iron you need to refine. 8 iron is the more economical way to make a generator. Many people make the iron furnace out of 8 ingots, and then use three other ingot in the generator for 11 ingots per unit. Starblind was saying that you should use only 8 ingots and 8 cobble instead of 11 ingots.