Arc Smelter area suggestions

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The materials rework which puts new fabricators accepting arc smelter bars all over the station seems to suggest that the arc smelter is going to stay public-access now. If you don't like destructive shenanigans, go bust people up when you see them doing it, since there's absolutely nothing stopping you from walking into the arc smelter area, flashing someone, and running off with their crate of erebite.

You do know that you can pop material bars out of any fabricator around the station to feed to the new special assemblers without needing to ever use the smelter right?

Yeah, but the fact that they can be used with arc smelter bars to make items out of fancy materials strongly suggests that they're intended to be used that way.