learning the new smelting system

[Rifmaster]

How do you get those?
Also im thinking we might need to add something other than lime and ore in there for more bars.
By the way has anyone tried to use blooms instead of ore in the smelters?

[Scilly_guy]

I ran a smelter with 15 ore 10 lime and got two bars too. Do you think S&E may play a part?

[grapefruitv]

If anyone wants to unite our data, PM me to get access to my excel doc. If you have better ideas for the table itself, I will gladly listen to your suggestions and fix it.

[Rele]

By the way has anyone tried to use blooms instead of ore in the smelters?

Blooms turn into dross if not used quick enough lol. Its also a pain to make >.<

[Naerymdan]

You should put the excel sheet up on google docs so it's community editable or at least readable.

I did a dozen 5 lime / 20 ores in various configurations, always got 1 iron bar.

[Flink]

im using the old 182% recipe,


in about 15 smelt, im getting between 1 and 2 iron each smelt

[prozhong]

im using the old 182% recipe,


in about 15 smelt, im getting between 1 and 2 iron each smelt

Anyone try to put in something else except lime/ore ?

[Flink]

im using the old 182% recipe,


in about 15 smelt, im getting between 1 and 2 iron each smelt

Anyone try to put in something else except lime/ore ?

well, if they made this a bit more historically accurate, they were using coke to make more iron compared to charcoal, so maybe we can somehow make coke now?

[MagicManICT]

To make steel, yes, you want to use coke. Using raw coal to alloy steel leaves sulfur in the process, resulting in brittle metal. To just smelt down ore or to work steel, you just need raw coal. Coke does burn hotter, but it's an extra process that uses special crucibles for the process. The crucible has to be nearly airless so that the carbon in the coal doesn't burn, but the sulfur and other impurities bake out, leaving nearly pure carbon.

[Flink]

well pig iron, is iron ore mixed with carbon, since coke is purer than coal in term of carbon, the ratio iron/carbon providing material, can be much much higher with coke, hence making more bar.