Advanced Coke Oven

The Advanced Coke Oven (ACO) is an MV tier multiblock for burning logs into charcoal. The ACO is a direct upgrade to the basic Coke Oven because it is 90x faster, but it requires a burnable fuel such as the very charcoal that it produces and it does not produce creosote oil. Therefore, the ACO's maximum output is 1 charcoal per second, but its net output is 15 charcoal per 16 seconds. The ACO does not consume power and is initially faster than the Pyrolyse Oven, but that quickly changes as better heating coils and energy hatches are unlocked. The ACO is superseded by the Industrial Coke Oven in EV.

The ACO consists of a single type of block and does not have a controller or any buses/hatches. The Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector does not visualize/build the structure, but it is very easy to build. Simply place the 34 blocks in a 3x3x4 (LxWxH) hollow rectangle as shown in the image above.

An ACO requires 68 basic coke oven bricks, 68 nether bricks, 136k (L) Oxygen Gas, and 17k (L) IC2 Coolant to build. There are also two steps in the Electric Blast Furnace which cost a significant amount of power in the early game.

Structure

• 34 Advanced Coke Oven Brick

Wallsharing

As a Railcraft multiblock, the ACO cannot wallshare any part of its structure and must be at least one block apart from other ACOs to form.

The ACO produces one charcoal per second from logs. That is 90x faster than the basic Coke Oven, but it requires a burnable fuel such as the very charcoal that it produces and it does not produce creosote oil. Charcoal has a burntime of 1600 ticks which fuels the ACO for 16 seconds, resulting in a net loss of only 1/16 of the total output. The ACO can also turn coal into coal coke, sugar charcoal into sugar coke, and cactus charcoal into cactus coke (1 second each).

Inputs can be inserted into any block on any side of the structure and outputs can be extracted from any block on any side of the structure. The ACO does not auto-pull from adjacent inventories but it does auto-push. It is highly recommended to create a feedback loop that prioritizes re-inserting the charcoal before storing it elsewhere. For example, the following image uses an item conduit with SELF-FEED enabled and differing priority levels.

The Pyrolyse Oven is another option for turning logs into charcoal in the early game that can be overclocked, boosted with nitrogen, and scales with the tier of its heating coils. To help the player decide between the ACO and the Pyrolyse Oven, the following table compares their average charcoal per second for various recipes, heating coils, and overclocks. The cells highlighted green mean the Pyrolyse Oven is faster than the ACO and the cells highlighted in red mean the Pyrolyse Oven is slower. Note that it may be more practical to use the ACO even where it is slower because it does not consume any EU, albeit at the cost of no fluid byproducts.