Cook and Smelt
Speed up gathering and furnaces per item, set a global cook speed, and scale charcoal, oil, low grade, quarry and furnace output. Everything here is saved to My Settings and comes back after a restart.
01What it does
You'll find this under Server Settings > Modifiers and Multipliers, on the Cook and Smelt tab.
Cook and Smelt is your toolbox for the resource grind. It has four tools: Gather Scale, Smelting Scale, Cook Speed and Output multipliers. Each one opens its own screen.
If you run a 2x or 3x server, this is where a lot of that feel comes from. You can be selective too, for example making sulfur faster to smelt without touching anything else.
02Gather, Smelting and Cook Speed
These three tools work the same way. You pick an item, pick 1x, 2x or 3x, and press Apply. Only those three values are allowed, no decimals.
- Gather Scale: how much of an item players get when they gather it. Presets are Sulfur Ore, Metal Ore, Wood, High Quality Metal Ore and Stone.
- Smelting Scale: how fast a single item cooks in a furnace. It only changes speed, not how much comes out. Presets are Sulfur Ore, Metal Ore, Wood and High Quality Metal Ore (stone is left out because it can't be cooked).
- Cook Speed: sets the cook speed for the item you pick and sets the global cook speed for everything to the same value, in one go. Same presets as Smelting Scale.
As soon as you pick an item, the screen checks the server and shows what's Currently set for it. If nothing has been changed, you'll see the default of 1x.
Underneath you get a list of everything you've set with that tool (My Gather Scales, My Smelting Scales, My Cook Speeds). Click a row to load it back into the form if you want to change it.
03Using a custom item
Every tool has an Enter Custom ShortName option for items that aren't in the preset list. Start typing and suggestions show up after three letters. Pick one, or just type the short name yourself, like sulfur.ore.
If the short name isn't in Surge's item catalog, the preview says Not in catalog, but you can still apply it. Short names can only use letters, numbers, dots, dashes and underscores, up to 64 characters.
Double-check spelling on custom short names. A typo won't break anything, it just won't change any real item.
04Output multipliers
Output multipliers are global production scales. Each card has its own Save button, and you can use decimals (so 1.5 is fine). The allowed range is 0 to 3.
- Charcoal Multiplier: how much charcoal you get while smelting.
- Crude Oil Output: how much crude oil gets produced.
- Low grade Output: how much low grade fuel gets produced.
- Quarry Output: how fast quarries produce.
- Furnace Output: a global multiplier on what furnaces put out.
05Good to know
Cook Speed changes the global cook speed every time you apply it, not just the item you picked. If you set Sulfur Ore to 3x in Cook Speed, every item's global cook speed becomes 3x as well. Use Smelting Scale if you only want to touch one item.
- Smelting Scale and Cook Speed write to the same per-item speed. If you set an item in both, whichever you applied last is the one that sticks, and My Settings keeps only that one.
- Every change here is saved to My Settings and re-applied automatically when your server restarts.
- The bot needs to be connected to your server to apply anything.