Can anyone tell me how I can select which molten ore comes out of my Smeltery drain?

[UnwaryScalpling]

The smeltery drain from Tinkers Construct. I'm using the Direwolf20 1.5 v2 v1.1.3 modpack.
Thank you.

 

[tedyhere]

should just be able to click on the metal in the smeltery controller. Not sure if it is a feature in 1.5 or not tho :/

 

[UnwaryScalpling]

Yeah that's what I assumed, but it doesn't seem to be working...
I've looked everywhere and couldn't find anything...

 

[Tristam Izumi]

The bottom one. Or, in case of special applications (like making casts), the bottom-most valid metal (be it gold or aluminum brass).

 

[midi_sec]

this is why the trend of dumping all of your ores into one smeltery is inconvenient

edit: wait, on newer versions you can click the metal you want in the controller? still weird putting it all in one

 

[KhrFreak]

the click to select what liquid comes out is only in TiC 1.6

 

[RedBoss]

the click to select what liquid comes out is only in TiC 1.6

This.

Also, the Mindcrack guys and other youtubers are showing people how they dump multiple ores into the smeltery. This is a bad practice because you can end up creating unintended alloys. Gold and Silver become electrum, tin & copper become bronze, and almost sorts of combinations depending on your mod pack's selection of mods. It is best to just dump one type of ore at a time or only dump multiple types when you specifically want an alloy. If you really want to dump lots of ores, make multiple smelteries.