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Optimal Iron / Gold Ingot Smelter Farm

TL;DR

Iron and Gold ingots run on one production loop: Litter or Crush spawns ore, Gather collects, a Burn Pokemon at a Smelting furnace converts Ore + Fire into Ingot, Storage catches the output. Charmander is the dominant burner in the data — Burn specialty, Small (fits any house), and its favorites list literally contains Iron ingot, Gold ingot, and Glass, so it earns Blissful comfort sitting next to its own outputs. No mon in the dataset has both Litter specialty AND Iron ore in its favorites except Bastiodon (Large). farm_configurations.csv designates Glimmet / Glimmora as the Iron-ore litterer on Rocky Ridges. Gold ore has no direct litterer at all — Gold deposits must be Crushed (Geodude / Larvitar / Onix line), then smelted. Gold ingot trades at 5x Iron ingot value.

The build

PokemonRoleSpecialtyWhy
CharmanderSmelter / BurnBurnBurn specialty, Small (fits anywhere), favorites = Iron ingot + Gold ingot + Glass + Plain chest + Big storage box — outputs double as comfort items.
Glimmet / GlimmoraIron Ore littererLitterfarm_configurations.csv ‘Iron Ore Farm’ (Rocky Ridges, A-tier) names them as the litter source. Glimmet Small, Glimmora Medium.
GeodudeDeposit crusherCrushCrush specialty; Hard Stuff favorites include Iron ingot. Required for both Iron deposits (id 1029) and Gold deposits (id 1030).
BastiodonBonus dual-purpose (Iron+Gold)Crush, LitterOnly mon with Litter+Crush whose favorites span Iron ore, Gold ore, Iron ingot, Gold ingot. Large — outdoor habitat only.

Layout

+----------------------------------+
|  L  D  D  D  D  L                |
|  D  .  .  .  .  D     L=Litter   |
|  D  .  C  C  .  D     D=Deposit  |
|  D  .  C  C  .  D     C=Crusher  |
|  D  .  .  .  .  D     F=Furnace  |
|  L  D  D  D  D  L     B=Burner   |
|  G  .  .  .  .  G     G=Gather   |
|  .  F  F  B  B  .     S=Storage  |
|  .  F  F  S  S  .                |
+----------------------------------+

Furnace + Storage cluster sits inside the 12-tile Gather radius of the ore field. Litter mons (L) at the corners maximise drop coverage. Crushers (C) inside the field break deposits (D). Burner (B) is Charmander adjacent to Smelting furnace (F). Chest (S) inside Gather radius.

Expected output

Not in data. items_enriched.csv trade values:

  • Iron ore 10 / 15, Iron ingot 100 / 150
  • Gold ore 100 / 150, Gold ingot 500 / 750
  • Iron deposit 100 / 150, Gold deposit 200 / 300

Gold ingot is 5x Iron ingot by trade value — but Gold throughput is bottlenecked by deposit respawn × Crush rate (no Gold-ore litterer in the data). Per-hour rate formula: ingots/hr = min(litter_or_crush_rate, gather_sweep_rate × radius_hits, burn_throughput × num_furnaces). Raw rate numbers are not in any file on disk.

Comfort setup (Charmander, Fire type)

  • Temperature: Hot 7-10
  • Humidity: Low 1-2
  • Light: Bright
  • Flavor: Spicy — Charmander favorites list: Chili sauce, Simple bread, Bread bowl, Curry and rice, Wheat
  • Furniture:
  • Stone fireplace (Charmander listed in pokemon_likes for id 261)
  • Cooking stove (Charmander listed for id 264; also has Lots of fire favorite_cat)
  • Plain chest, Storage box, Wall storage box, Big storage box (all Charmander favorites)
  • Iron ingot / Gold ingot / Glass decor — Charmander favorites; its own outputs

Stack up to +50% comfort. Target Blissful (5x multiplier) since the burner is the throughput bottleneck.

Setup steps

  1. Pick land: Rocky Ridges (Iron deposits, Gold deposits, Iron ore, Gold ore all listed as Natural in items_enriched).
  2. Lay out a 6×6 ore field; preserve / plant Iron and Gold deposits.
  3. Place 2-4 Glimmet / Glimmora at field corners (Litter source for Iron ore per farm_configurations.csv).
  4. Place 1-2 Geodude (or Larvitar / Onix) inside the field — Crush breaks deposits into ore.
  5. Place a Smelting furnace adjacent (items_enriched id 449; Rocky Ridges natural / Cloud Island Lv.1 shop unlock).
  6. Assign Charmander to the furnace tile (automation_devices.csv: “Fire Pokemon operates it. Add ore.”).
  7. Place a Plain chest or Big storage box within 12-tile Gather radius. Charmander likes these — double-duty comfort + storage.
  8. Stack Charmander comfort: Stone fireplace, Cooking stove, Spicy food, Bright/Hot/Low environment.
  9. For Gold-only: same layout, prioritise Gold deposits. afk_farms.csv ‘Gold Foundry’ (Rocky Ridges S-tier) is the reference build — Burn + Crush only; no Litter mon listed because no Gold-ore litterer exists in the data.
  10. Scale by adding parallel furnaces; afk_farms.csv ‘Ultimate Smelter’ on Sparkling Skylands runs all four ingot types in a 6×6 industrial grid.

Alternatives

  • Burners (interchangeable with Charmander, same favorites pattern): Magmar, Magby, Magmortar, Torkoal, Growlithe, Arcanine, Vulpix, Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken. All Burn specialty, all list Iron ingot + Gold ingot as favorites.
  • Carkol / Coalossal: Burn + Gather specialty AND favorites cover Iron ore, Gold ore, Iron ingot, Gold ingot — compress Gather + Burn into one mon. Coalossal is Large (railroad-crossing habitat only).
  • Rolycoly: Burn + Gather, Hard Stuff + Metal Stuff favorites — smallest combined burner+gatherer.
  • Crushers: Larvitar (Small, fits small house), Onix, Steelix — same Hard Stuff favorites cluster.
  • Crush + Litter combo: Rampardos / Tyrantrum / Aurorus — only Iron ingot in favorites, not raw Iron ore.

Crush vs direct smelting

  • Iron path A (Litter): Glimmet/Glimmora litter → Gather → Smelting furnace + Charmander → Iron ingot. Per farm_configurations.csv.
  • Iron path B (Crush): Iron deposit → Geodude Crush → Iron ore → Smelt. Slower per unit but doesn’t need ore-pref mons; also harvests deposit trade value (100/150).
  • Gold path (only path in data): Gold deposit → Crush → Gold ore → Smelt. No Litter shortcut exists in the dataset.

Source data

  • /tmp/pokopia-data/pokedex.csv — specialty + habitat for all candidates
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/pokemon_item_matches.csv — favorites/match lists (#4 Charmander, #275 Bastiodon, #203/204 Glimmet/Glimmora, #159 Geodude, #169 Larvitar, etc.)
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/pokemon_size.csv — Charmander Small, Glimmet Small, Glimmora Medium, Larvitar Small, Bastiodon Large, Coalossal Large
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/afk_farms.csv — “Ore Smelter” (Withered Wastelands, S), “Gold Foundry” (Rocky Ridges, S), “Ultimate Smelter” (Sparkling Skylands, S+)
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/farm_configurations.csv — “Iron Ore Farm” Rocky Ridges A, names Glimmet/Glimmora + Coalossal/Rolycoly
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/items_enriched.csv — Iron ore id 16, Gold ore 17, Iron ingot 24, Gold ingot 25, Iron deposit 1029, Gold deposit 1030, Smelting furnace 449, Stone fireplace 261, Cooking stove 264
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/automation_devices.csv — Smelting Furnace recipe + requirement
  • /tmp/pokopia-data/comfort_items.csv — Spicy Meal, Bed, Bowl, Favorite Furniture rules

Missing / future research

  • production_chains.csv and pokemon.csv (492 ability-tagged) are referenced in the brief but absent from /tmp/pokopia-data/. Rates per hour and explicit chain triggers unknown.
  • Aron line / Durant / Meltan / Geodude-as-iron-litterer / Camerupt are mentioned in the brief and afk_farms.csv but the first four are not in this pokedex (only 300 dex entries). Cannot cite from data.
  • No on-disk source gives Litter rate, Crush rate, Gather sweep interval, Furnace throughput, or deposit respawn time — every per-hour figure is deliberately omitted.
  • Glimmet / Glimmora favorites list (pokemon_item_matches) includes Gold ore but NOT Iron ore, yet farm_configurations.csv designates them as the Iron-ore litterer. Conflict resolved by trusting farm_configurations.csv (more specific source); worth verifying in-game.
  • No Litter specialist favorites Gold ore in the data → confirms the brief’s claim “no direct gold-ore litterer — must crush deposits.”