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IzahShados

Limonite smelting problems?

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Hey guys.. Just have a couple of problems smelting some of the ores like limonite. I've looked around on forums and things and haven't had any luck with the solutions I've found so I thought I'd set up a post here. Does anyone have any solutions?

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You cook in the bloomery and use a bellow to rise the heat. Did it for the first time this morning and worked as expected.

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While I think it *might* be possible in a fire pit using Hickory and a bellows, your best bet is a bloomery.

Construct a bloomery as described in the wiki, add a bellows to one side of it. Then throw your ore and some charcoal in it. Open the bloomery GUI and watch the temperature rise. Once it maxes out (about 1/3 scale) start pumping the bellows and keep it maxed out (about 2/3 scale). After about a minute your ore should be ready.

I use 12 charcoal per every 8 ore, but if you are unsure, or just can't keep the heat up due to burning off the charcoal, throw in a few extra pieces of charcoal.

The fire pit is only practical for your first set of tools. Once you make a pick and chisel from the starter ores, its time to move up to the bloomery.

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Anything containing iron ores I'd recomend using a bloomery to smelt, even if you theoretically might be able to do it in a firepit you would have to work so hard that the extra work of making charcoal for a bloomery is way easier.

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And I find that a bloomery, when left alone, doesn't get quite hot enough to smelt limonite, so bellows are definitely required.

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Copper is BARELY able to smelt in a firepit with full blellows pumping and hickory.

Smelting temperatures for ores are the same as the melting temperature for the corresponding metal IRL

Copper melts at 1084 C and iron melts at 1538 C

You can safely assume that firepit iron smelting is impossible.

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