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Olivine, useless ore

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This evening to fight boredom I was digging straight down under my house, out of nowhere I find a shit-ton of Olivine ore, a bit disappointed of the result of my digging I decided to find out exactly why Olivine is deemed useless.

 

I found out that Olivine is used as a refractory in blast furnaces.

 

Why not use the Olivine to produce refractory bricks to make the blast furnace? it could be as simple as (stone brick+Olivine sand = refractory briks).

 

It could even stand as a substitute of graphite in the fire-clay formula, as far as I know the graphite works as refractory material.

 

PS: I also found out that Selenite, Satin-spar and gypsum are basically the same thing so I don't see why I need to suffer 3 times instead of one when I find them... (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenite_(mineral))

 

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As someone who has been suffering through thousands of blocks looking for graphite, I wholeheartedly support this idea.

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Yeah, we know :/

 

We only use materials in-game for what they're used for irl. If you can find me a real furnace made of olivine, I'll consider adding olivine to a recipe to make the blast furnace.

 

As far as those three minerals, blame dwarf fortress. We stole their ores and minerals in the first place.

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As far as those three minerals, blame dwarf fortress. We stole their ores and minerals in the first place.

What is the purpose of these ores and minerals in DF ... can we implement them in TFC?

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