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turtletechy

Method for cooling metal components?

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I ran into an issue where I had my firepit set up very well, but the unfinished metal was about to be destroyed. I was considering a method of cooling other than by waiting. What about when you toss it into water, it cools off at a much faster rate? Simple enough of an idea, and it should be realistic then.

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Possible solution to over-heating issues:

1 don't heat it so long

2 let it cool in the playerinventory, it cools slower inside an anvil

3 read 1 and 2 again.

You generally have more issues with metals not staying warm long enough to work them than the opposite.

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Metals cool much faster inside a chest than they do in player inventory. Metals don't cool at all inside an anvil AFAIK

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^ that is true

however, placing down a bucket in the world for quenching should be possible. but it should also treat the ingot as if it was in the anvil after being quenched. game balance there, not anything realistic.

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^ that is true

however, placing down a bucket in the world for quenching should be possible. but it should also treat the ingot as if it was in the anvil after being quenched. game balance there, not anything realistic.

I suppose so, but all I need is a way to cool the thing down for when I am trying to make an ingot. It gets harder when you're using fourteen small nuggets or pieces of ore to try to make a single ingot. Its especially hard when you can't get the ore hot enough to melt before the ingot is too hot. I've ran into that issue. The ore seems to heat up more slowly, which is a bit of a PITA.

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What if, once you get Iron, and build a tool out of it, Quenching it would increase its durability? That would add a real use to cooling metal, although currently tools do not register heat, and would be hard to implement.

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This isn't the bloomery where you place the ore and forget about it for the next hour. It's a firepit, watch what your shit is doing.

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This isn't the bloomery where you place the ore and forget about it for the next hour. It's a firepit, watch what your shit is doing.

I know that much, its just a PITA to have to wait for your metal to cool down for a while before tossing it in again.

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Wouldn't arbitrarily rapid-cooling the metal cause warping and a decrease in durability? I'd imagine it would make the metal brittle.

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It depends. Rapid cooling is used in contemporary metallurgy to get certain types of metal. Specifically - the ones with maximized volumetric proportions of amorphous phase over crystalline phase. If done right - received material will be very durable and hard and have very high viscosity and tearing energy.

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So other metals might react badly to it then?

Yes. Quenching works wonders for some metals, but others, the rapid cooling makes the metal to start micro-crystallizing (forming tiny crystals inside of the metal) and screws with the chemical makeup, brittling the metal as you said,

But for others, if done right, can make the metal have much better flexibility and tensile strength.

Bottom line: Good for some metals, not for others.

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The reason this is a pain is because your doing it wrong.

I came up with a way to smelt 3x faster in fire pits and have my metal stay at the right temp. So don't complain, just get better.

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Wait, off topic, but how does flamestrider have the moderator brown stripe?

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He's a moderator in IRC so he was made one on the forums.

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Wait, off topic, but how does flamestrider have the moderator brown stripe?

He's a moderator in IRC so he was made one on the forums.

Actually, I'm only a voice in IRC, I'm not a moderator in IRC, it's just that spAnser want to acknowledge the people in the forums that Bioxx have allowed more rights in the IRC channel, you'll find some more people have the stripes, it's not moderator stripes in my case.

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Maybe someone should create a different graphic for the stripes so we can better distinguish mods from non-mods.

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