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This is fully intentional. Look up how the real-world oxygen furnace works. Scrap (or something else like DRI iron) is needed to keep the exothermic reaction from melting the oxygen furnace.

If you need more scrap, use the shredder to make some (or research DRI iron for example).

Can place buildings.

More details, please.

Yes. Eventually...

Update uploaded.

Yes, I know. Update will come soon.

Going via sponge iron has a few differences, what is an advantage and what a disadvantage depends on how your playthrough is progressing.

Main points:

• It can be produced with raw coal (no charcoal or coke production) or fuel gas (later on).
• Slightly less space and pop demand.
• Until Blast Furnace 2, it is the only route that only uses 2 ore per steel plate (unless you rush recycling f…

Sorry, too much effort to maintain two versions for main and the experimental branch (which is 0.8.5 right now).

Thanks for the report, apparently I missed a change in one of the COI updates. Fixed in version 0.2.1, tested on COI 0.8.5.