REALLY DUMB QUESTION!

[DocStineTM 15]

how do you make unshaped wrought iron in a mold for mixing pig iron and wrought iron to make steel, i check the wiki but cant find anything.

IM SOOOOOOOO SORRY!!! i know i sound like a newb, please forgive me.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

When you melt wrought iron, you don't get pig iron back, instead you get liquid wrought iron.

And, isn't the supprot section there for this kind of things?

[DocStineTM 15]

idk, but i dont know how to melt the wrought iron into a mold, do i use a fire pit or what? can someone give me specifics, because no one has said whether it be in a bloomary, fire pit, or forge. because ive tried so much but cant figure it out. im so sorry for being dumb.

do i just put a ceramic mold in the forge? because that's what i'm thinking

[Leosallespoli 338]

May I ask how did you get to rough iron without knowing anything? Do you have a copper anvil?

[DocStineTM 15]

i have a wrought iron anvil know actually, i just couldn't figure out the whole unshaped liquid wrought iron

EDIT- yup, put a ceramic mold in the forge and heated the wrought iron to brillient white and it gave me unshaped wrought iron mold. WHO HOO!

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Yeah, you place it in the forge with some molds. The firepit would be too cold for it, and the bloomery... just won't work ._. ask coders or real life users of bloomeries why it won't, no idea.

[DocStineTM 15]

lol yea me neither. thanks for the help

[Leosallespoli 338]

IRL bloomery is just used to smelt hematite, maybe magnetite also...

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

IRL bloomery is just used to smelt hematite, maybe magnetite also...

Bloomeries usually aren't used to produce wrought iron either, (or atleast, not the ones we designed, based on plans from like 2000+ years ago. [by "we" I mean Bioxx...])

[Leosallespoli 338]

Bloomeries usually aren't used to produce wrought iron either, (or atleast, not the ones we designed, based on plans from like 2000+ years ago. [by "we" I mean Bioxx...])

Yeah, smelting Hematite or Magnetite produces sponge iron

[DocStineTM 15]

Yeah, smelting Hematite or Magnetite produces sponge iron

please enlighten me on this "sponge iron" im very curious

and too lazy to google it.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

... Not sure, but maybe it's the real life equivalent of our "pig iron"?

[LordOfWolves 514]

Well...Sponge iron is richer than pig iron. It's an iron type made of more pure iron. It's known as direct-reduced iron. It's made in oxygen furnaces, coke or charcoal ovens and blast furnaces.

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Wait... Pig iron exists? O_o

[LordOfWolves 514]

Thechnically yes

[DocStineTM 15]

sweet, "FIST Bump" to TheWolf277 for giving good insight on this topic.