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Added the preheating entry and valid inputs entry to the blast furnace tips, along with adding a note about replacing tuyeres with hoppers.

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@ -15,6 +15,22 @@
"item": "gtceu:compressed_fireclay",
"text": "Before you use all your fire clay on 20 fire bricks, note that once you get into the steam age, you can create fire bricks out of only clay, through $(item)Compressed Fireclay$() (you'll need steam machines for the clay dust). This allows you to save $(item)Kaolinite$() and $(item)Graphite$() for $(thing)Casting Tables$()."
},
{
"type": "patchouli:spotlight",
"title": "Preheating Metal",
"item": "tfc:firepit",
"text": "To convert the iron to steel, the blast furnace must heat the iron inside to $(thing)Brilliant White$(). On the first operation, the metal warms up along with the blast furnace. However, subsequent operations will take a similar amount of time despite the furnace being at temp already, as it needs to heat the metal from cold."
},
{
"type": "patchouli:text",
"text": "If the metal is hot when added into the blast furnace, it will take less time to reach brilliant white. Consider heating your metal in a $(l:tfc:mechanics/charcoal_forge)Charcoal Forge$() before putting it into an already-hot furnace to save time, especially with smaller blast furnaces that process less at a time."
},
{
"type": "patchouli:spotlight",
"title": "Valid Inputs",
"item": "gtceu:iron_dust",
"text": "Only certain processing stages of ores are accepted in the blast furnace. $(thing)Ore Dusts$(), $(thing)Raw Ores$(), and $(thing)Cast/Wrought Iron Ingots$() work, while $(thing)Crushed$(), $(thing)Impure$(), or other stages of processing will not. But you really should $(l:tfc:tfg_ores/ore_basics#processing)Process$() your ores to dust."
},
{
"type": "patchouli:spotlight",
"title": "Automation",
@ -24,6 +40,10 @@
{
"type": "patchouli:text",
"text": "You can pump liquid directly out of the blast furnace using a Create $(item)Mechanical Pump$(). Pump into a $(l:tfc:tfcchannelcasting/channel_casting)Mold Table$() and extract the ingots with a hopper or chute: Easy automation!$(br2)You can automate the bellows with a $(item)Deployer$() too! Just be careful, as using the bellows excessively consumes more fuel and breaks your $(thing)tuyere$() faster.$(br2)You can process the resulting $(item)Pig Iron$() and $(item)High Carbon Steel$() in a $(thing)Forge Hammer$()."
},
{
"type": "patchouli:text",
"text": "You can automatically replace broken tuyeres with a hopper facing into the blast furnace."
}
]
}