Electric furnace

The electric furnace is a machine in MaddTech which can be used to smelt items/blocks using exactly the same recipe list as the Minecraft furnace (including recipies registered by other mods). The only difference is that the electric furnace is not powered by material fuels, but instead by MaddTech energy - specifically 20 J/t (without upgrades). With upgrades, it can also be made more time- and energy-efficient.

The electric furnace is a multiblock - a hollow 3x3x3 box made of tin shell, with the interface block on the center of one of the sides. It also needs an energy input.

Since MaddTech 1.1, there may also be item input/output blocks and a redstone output block placed in the casing. An item transporter can have its output connected to the item input of an electric furnace to move items into the input slot; likewise, the item output can be connected to an item transporter for it to remove items from the output slot. The redstone output emits a redstone signal whenever the input slot is empty, and could for example be connected to the input item transporter to automatically take the next available item from a crate when smelting one item was completed.