Lord Lao’s Furnace – Jade Empire

This guide details the optional part of Jade Empire in Lord Lao’s Furnace. It is complete with a map, legend, and walkthrough.

Map Legend

1 – Arrival
2 – Reset Console
3 – Bookstand
4 – Fuel Hopper
5 – Tiger Button
6 – Dragon Button
7 – Ceramic Urn
8 – Ceramic Urn
9 – Whirling Cogs
10 – Cranking Cauldron
11 – Conductor
12 – Clapper Chimney
13 – Water Wheel

Walkthrough

Lord Lao’s Furnace is an amazing walled-in factory of sorts. The machines here are capable of producing beneficial techniques and essence gems for you, but only if you have the correct configurations for them. The fuels needed to operate the machines are distributed around the Jade Empire, so you’ll want to make sure you have the appropriate recipe and ingredients before doing any tinkering.

1 – Arrival

After completing Kang’s first Flyer Mission and activating the Confoundable Minutia, you’ll arrive in another one of the heavens that make up the Jade Empire universe. You should probably read through the rest of this walkthrough and make sure you understand how the furnace works before pulling any levers or pushing any buttons.


2 – Reset Console

If you ever fire up a machine by mistake or just want to start a creation process over, you can just pull the reset console lever.


3 – Bookstand

The text on this bookstand is entitled The Celestial Order, Volume 3.


4 – Fuel Hopper

Once you’ve decided to use Lord Lao’s Furnace to create something, this is where you’ll start. The hopper already contains a supply of cinnabar ore, but you’ll need to add some fuel as well.

Depending on the configuration you’re referring to, this could be a Cow Bezoar, A Bar of Nickeled Iron, A Vial of Sulfurous Water, or the Eyes of the Void. Keep in mind that the fuel you place inside will be used up whether you successfully complete a configuration or not. Considering that there are a finite number of each type of fuel, you should only place one inside the hopper once you know what you’re doing.


5 – Tiger Button

Pressing the Tiger Button will be the final step in half of the configurations you find.


6 – Dragon Button

Pressing the Dragon Button will be the final step in the other half of the configurations you find.


7 – Ceramic Urn

Search inside this ceramic urn to find the Configuration of the Ox.


8 – Ceramic Urn

A Cow Bezoar can be looted from this urn.


9 – Whirling Cogs

This lever will activate the Whirling Cogs, one of the contraptions needed to perform various configurations.


10 – Cranking Cauldron

This lever will activate the Cranking Cauldron, one of the contraptions needed to perform various configurations.


11 – Conductor

This lever will activate the Conductor, one of the contraptions needed to perform various configurations.


12 – Clapper Chimney

This lever will activate the Clapper Chimney, one of the contraptions needed to perform various configurations.


13 – Water Wheel

This lever will activate the Water Wheel, one of the contraptions needed to perform various configurations.


Configurations

You don’t actually need the proper configuration to use Lord Lao’s Furnace. You just need to know which fuel and machines are required to produce the outcome you’re looking for. If you have a few different fuels packed away and are itching to use the furnace, you can just reference the information below. Keep in mind that using the Eyes of the Void fuel will permanently destroy Lord Lao’s Furnace. Therefore, it is only possible to obtain one of the two possible rewards for using the fuel.

Configuration of the Dragon
Fuel: A Vial of Sulfurous Water
Contraptions: Whirling Cogs, Cranking Cauldron
Button: Tiger
Reward: A Mountain Within (Technique)

Configuration of the Goat
Fuel: Eyes of the Void
Contraptions: Whirling Cogs, Conductor, Water Wheel
Button: Tiger
Reward: Harmony of Balance (Technique)

Configuration of the Horse
Fuel: Cow Bezoar
Contraptions: Cranking Cauldron, Conductor, Clapper Chimney, Water Wheel
Button: Tiger
Reward: Song of the Spirit (Technique)

Configuration of the Ox
Fuel: A Vial of Sulfurous Water
Contraptions: Clapper Chimney, Water Wheel
Button: Dragon
Reward: Spirit of the Master (Essence Gem)

Configuration of the Rabbit
Fuel: Cow Bezoar
Contraptions: Whirling Cogs, Conductor, Clapper Chimney
Button: Dragon
Reward: Heaven’s Blessing Gem (Essence Gem)

Configuration of the Rat
Fuel: Eyes of the Void
Contraptions: Cranking Cauldron, Whirling Cogs, Clapper Chimney, Water Wheel
Button: Dragon
Reward: Strength of the Bull (Essence Gem)

Configuration of the Snake
Fuel: A Bar of Nickeled Iron
Contraptions: Cranking Cauldron, Conductor, Clapper Chimney
Button: Tiger
Reward: Calm as the Morning Breeze (Technique)

Configuration of the Tiger
Fuel: A Bar of Nickeled Iron
Contraptions: Whirling Cogs, Conductor
Button: Dragon
Reward: The Quieted Mind (Technique)