The Auto Smelter Details
The idea for this came from previous cave bases I've built. The location is perfectly placed in the middle of everything while also not taking up much space. The waterfall was the made to cover the enterance and also give the area some more life.
This is where the cobblestone is made. It allows for an infinite amount of cobblestone to be generated which eliminates the need to keep refilling it or making a quarry to supply it.
This crushes the cobblestone which turns it into gravel, there is always a backlog here so some more crushing mills could be built.
This washes the gravel and produces either flint or an iron nugget. The likelyhood of getting an iron nugget is about 10% and while low it is passive and beats the alternative of having to go mining constantly.
The chest in the middle is where the products from the iron farm go and occasionally needs to be emptied of the flint. Though an automated destruction of the flint could also be made.
Initally this was only going to be an iron farm but eventually I realised the washers/heaters don't need non-renewable power and can instead use renewable power which makes for a very efficient smelter.
This is where the items that can get smelted get put. If an item that can't get smelted gets put in then it gets burnt and disappears.
This is where the items get smelted. There are actually 2 rows of conveyor belts here in the hopes of speeding up the process.