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title=About Fluids and Smelting
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<yellow>Fluids</> are a resource, that represent (in-world) vanilla fluids or PolyFactory's custom fluids.
They aren't bound directly to an item and use different measuring system.
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Fluids can be transported with blocks such as <item 'polyfactory:pipe'>, which needs to be powered by a <item 'polyfactory:pump'>.
Pipes and pumps can pull fluids from fluid storage blocks or from in-world blocks such as Water/Lava sources, Honey/Slime
blocks, Beehives and so on. Custom PolyFactory fluids might require specific recipes and smeltery to use it.
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If you want to input (or take) fluids into / out of some "open" blocks (think <pageref '/crafting/mechanical_mixer'>, Fluid Drain and so on), you can interact with them
using buckets, bottles and other compatible items. This interaction can happen both in world and in the block's container interface, by targeting the visual fluid visualizer,
while holding the item in the cursor. Do note not all blocks allow the same insertion / extraction behavior.
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<yellow>Smelting</> is a process of melting metallic items with a Smeltery. PolyFactory adds 2 types of Smelteries:
- <item 'polyfactory:primitive_smeltery'> - Early-game primitive and slower smeltery.
- <item 'polyfactory:smeltery'> - Mid-game larger smeltery. It's faster and can smelt 9 items at the same time.