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rohan

Red Steel Problem

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Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong?

Here's the screen shot of my crucible. I'm trying to make red steel for the first time. The brass and rose gold was mixed before hand, poured and cooled into ingots (then sat there for the whole time I was working through the iron tiers), and then added into an empty crucible. The black steel was next and 12 ingots added 1 at a time. The steel was from when I  melted my steel anvil earlier and then poured them into ingots, let them cool/sit until this. I added 4 steel, it shows the correct %'s per the wiki, but doesn't say "weak red steel" above. What did I do wrong?

 

 

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Black Steel is 50-55%. You have 60%

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Thank you, is someone going to fix the wiki? It still says 50-60%. Also I assume ratio of black steel for Blue Steel is also 50-55%?

 

 

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Just fyi, it's a waste of material to use so much black steel.  Black steel should always be the bare minimum, if one cares about efficiency.  In general, baring unusual scarcities, it's best to do everything possible to minimize any material that uses iron.  Especially for red steel.  At best, you'll use 5x as much iron per single ingot of colored steel, as you will the next-most used material, copper.  So economizing iron helps in the long run.

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Yeah - the coloured steels are simply way to expensive, and WAY too time-consuming imho.

I remember spending nearly 2 weeks of game play (admittedly only a few hours per day) to simply get a red steel anvil going, and I already had a black steel one.

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Thank you, but I did something even more crazy. I gathered ALL of the ores needed with my bismuth bronze pick axes and have been on one continuous smithing exercise (with a few small breaks to harvest/plant crops and 1 to get more charcoal) and have been going from stone anvil with no ingots (all tools cast) to now working (hopefully tonight) to get my red steel anvil, bucket, and tools. I've already harvest all of the ore needed.

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Come to think of it though, I might be able to still do 20 ingots batches replacing 2 black steel for 1 extra brass/rose gold for red and 1 extra bismuth bronze/sterling silver. I'll have to see if I have enough ingots left over to support that.

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Yeah a good portion of the wiki is updated, but quite a few aren't still. Pretty much only Kitty can edit wiki, although with approval some can save work pages for her to integrate. However she finished school last spring and is working now, so I don't see any edits forthcoming.

When you run into roadblocks it is best to do what you did and ask here. There are a few around that can give you correct info. 

Also if you have NEI and the TFC NEI plugin you can get correct alloy %s and other TFC specific recipes. 

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