I now and then mentioned that I had tested some mod furnaces, mostly being interested in if there is anything in current mods that can keep up with a IC2 induction furnace. To validate my results and include some mods I hadn't checked before, I now ran a new comparison.
Edit: Made a second run with options suggested in the comments. I did not rerun the furnaces from the first run, only the rtedstone furnace to be able to compare and normalize values. Surprisingly it again smelted 899 items (didn't expect that much determinism from MineCraft...)
The condenders:
I didn't make a specific mod pack to include as many mods as possible so there are of course some mods missing. I used the pack I currently use, which is Monster with some mods added. I also used mostly the mods I actually play with, so there are even options missing that are in the pack.
One thing I want to mention, RotaryCraft has a second fast option to smelt items. You can use a friction heater with a vanilla furnace. I tested it, it exploded, didn't try a second time. Second run: included.
To measure the performance I piped ore of different types from creative strongboxes into the machies using Ender IO item conduits (fast ones) and stored the output in an AE system. They ran for one hour.
All machines were upgarded to their max if possible (8x speed and energy for Mekanism, 5x speed core for DartCraft, Ignis + 3 bellows for the infernal furnace and octadic capacitor for Ender IO). The electric furnace had 16 overclockers.
The results:
Some notes on power consumption:
I hope people find this useful or at least interesting, feel free to ask/post if you have questions or comments
Edit: Made a second run with options suggested in the comments. I did not rerun the furnaces from the first run, only the rtedstone furnace to be able to compare and normalize values. Surprisingly it again smelted 899 items (didn't expect that much determinism from MineCraft...)
The condenders:
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Mod Version Items/smelt
Redstone Furnace Thermal Expansion 3.0.0.7 1
Lava Smeltery RotaryCraft 23d 18
Furnace + Friction @ 8kW RotaryCraft 23d 1
Furnace + Friction @ 131kW RotaryCraft 23d 1
Furnace + Friction @ 2MW RotaryCraft 23d 1
Furnace + Friction @ 34MW RotaryCraft 23d 1
Elite Factory Mekanism 6.0.4.42 7
Force Furnace DartCraft 0.2.19v4 1
Induction Furnace IC2 2.0.397 2
Electric Furnace w/16 OC IC2 2.0.397 1
Alloy Smelter Ender IO 1.0.6.376 3
Friction Incinerator Hydraulicraft 1.0.4-68 1
Steam Oven Railcraft 8.4.0.0 9
Furnace Engineer's Toolbox 1.1.8.4 1
Infernal Furnace Thaumcraft 4.1.0g 1One thing I want to mention, RotaryCraft has a second fast option to smelt items. You can use a friction heater with a vanilla furnace. I tested it, it exploded, didn't try a second time. Second run: included.
To measure the performance I piped ore of different types from creative strongboxes into the machies using Ender IO item conduits (fast ones) and stored the output in an AE system. They ran for one hour.
All machines were upgarded to their max if possible (8x speed and energy for Mekanism, 5x speed core for DartCraft, Ignis + 3 bellows for the infernal furnace and octadic capacitor for Ender IO). The electric furnace had 16 overclockers.
The results:
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Power (RF/tick) Items Total RF Rel. Power Rel. Items Rel. Items (1) RF/item
Redstone Furnace 20 899 1440000 1,00 1,00 1,00 1602
Lava Smeltery 12 8622 864000 0,60 9,59 0,53 100
Furnace + Friction @ 8kW 2 875 144000 0,10 0,97 0,97 165
Furnace + Friction @ 131kW 24 1073 1728000 1,20 1,19 1,19 1610
Furnace + Friction @ 2MW 373 5528 26856000 18,65 6,15 6,15 4858
Furnace + Friction @ 34MW 5963 35940 429336000 298,15 39,98 39,98 11946
Elite Factory 200 25186 14400000 10,00 28,02 4,00 572
Force Furnace - 8885 - - 9,88 9,88 -
Induction Furnace 75 11072 5400000 3,75 12,32 6,16 488
Electric Furnace w/16 OC 22136 215637 1593792000 1106,80 239,86 239,86 7391
Alloy Smelter 100 3597 7200000 5,00 4,00 1,33 2002
Friction Incinerator 35 1635 2520000 1,75 1,82 1,82 1541
Steam Oven - 2385 2,65 0,29 -
Furnace 10 397 720000 0,50 0,44 0,44 1814
Infernal Furnace - 3422 3,81 3,81 -Some notes on power consumption:
- Measured with Ender IO power monitors with the exception of TE, Mekanism and RotaryCraft Magnetostatics where I took the value displayed on the machine UI / Waila.
- To run the Lava Smeltery you need to provide it with power and lava. Lava was produced with a RoC rock melter fed with smooth stone by a TE igneous extruder. The power consumption includes running this but is in fact a bit more than you need to feed the lava smeltery. The true value I estimate around 10 RF/tick. Fact is you can run this setup for free with two DC and three steam engines.
- The force furnace runs only on furnace fuel, I included it mostly because I was curious how fast it is.
- The induction furnace was powered via Mekanism universal cable.
- Power consumption for the induction furnace, electric furnace and friction incinerator was fluctuating so the values are an estimate.
Items: Raw numer of items processed in the one hour runtime
Total RF: Total RF used, calculated from total ticks in one hour (72000) and RF consumption per tick (aka not measued)
Rel. Power: Power usage relative to the TE redstone furnace
Rel. Items: Processed Items relative to the TE redstone furnace
Rel. Items (1): Relative processing speed for one item, essentially the previous value divided by the numer of items the machine processes at once
RF/item: RF used per item smelted
Total RF: Total RF used, calculated from total ticks in one hour (72000) and RF consumption per tick (aka not measued)
Rel. Power: Power usage relative to the TE redstone furnace
Rel. Items: Processed Items relative to the TE redstone furnace
Rel. Items (1): Relative processing speed for one item, essentially the previous value divided by the numer of items the machine processes at once
RF/item: RF used per item smelted
I hope people find this useful or at least interesting, feel free to ask/post if you have questions or comments
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