Blast Furnace Not accepting ore [SOLVED]

[Bubbaa 0]

I just built a blast furnace, and I'm fairly certain that everything has been built to the specifications on the wiki, but for some reason the blast furnace will only take in charcoal that is dropped into the chimney, not any flux or ore. I dont really know what to do.... when the ore and flux are thrown in, they just sit on top. the charcoal goes in, and the blast furnace will start up fine, albeit without anything useful in it. Any help would be appreciated.

[Bunsan 323]

When you look in blast furnace GUI is the bar for ore white or empty? A picture of the GUI would help. How tall is your blast furnace i.e. How many firebricks with iron sheets tall. How much it's and flux are you putting in? How much charcoal? Do you have a tuyere? Do you have bellows? Are you pumping madly at bellows? Are you running other mods? What version of forge?

It is fine since you aren't reporting a bug to not use template, but it is best to provide as much info as possible so we can help.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Are you sure that you are throwing iron ore in? The blast furnace will only accept hematite, limonite, and magnetite. If you try to throw any other ore in, it won't work.

[Bubbaa 0]

Ok im not at my desktop right now, so i cant post pictures, but the blast furnace is a minimum sized blast furnace. It has a crucible at the bottom, with the blast furnace block directly above, followed by air, surrounded by 4 fire brick blocks, each with 3 wrought iron sheets on the 3 outward faces. i have a chimney that is only one block high. I am certain that i have been throwing normal hemetite ore, and when i throw that or flux in the chimney, it does not go in, nor does it make the little coal looking thing that gets taller, like the bloomery. It just sits in the bottom. The white bar in the blast furnace does not fill and i can retrieve all of the ore back. When i add charcoal, it does go in, and it starts stacking up in the chimney like it does in the bloomery, and the white bar in the blast furnace does start to fill up. at this point i can also start the furnace. I have a bronze tuyere, i have a bellow, that works and make the blast furnace hotter, but there is no ore in it. i tried heating up the blast furnace before adding ore, but that didnt do anything. My second thought was that maybe i need to have a taller chimney, but based on the wiki page, the one block high chimney is the minimum.

 

i am currently running 

TFC: 0.79.15

Forge: 10.13.2.1272

and my additional mods are the lantuerns mod, the dynamic lighting, and the Gravestone mod. 

if there is anything else you need to know let me know. if you want when i get home later i can give you a screen shot, but there isnt really anything interesting there. like i said. ore and flux do not go in, and the ore meter in the GUI does not show any ore in the furnace, and coal does go in, it does show up in the gui and it will start. 

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Are you throwing the ore and flux in at the same time? Or are you throwing ore in, then taking it out when it doesn't work, and then throwing the flux in?

 

Both the ore and flux items must be in the chimney at the exact same time.

[Bubbaa 0]

yup that was the problem. I wasn't trying them together at exactly the same time.