About Alloys

[Elso_Valager 0]

Right, lads, we've finally made our way to the wonderful world of alloys on my server, and we're very close to being able to make some Bismuth Bronze (Some 8km to find some Bismuth, who'd have thought?), but I've realised while I'm waiting for my away team to return, that I have a slight problem.

 

I have a forge, loads of fuel, and hopefully soon all the materials required for everything. But we have been as of yet, unable to make a crucible. How exactly would one make an alloy without it?

 

Now I've been told you can use a vessel for these things but, alot of our Copper and Zinc has become bars. Granted I can make that into liquid form, so that can be used, but I'm very unsure how I'd go about using that. Anyone got a solution that I might not be aware of?

[Kittychanley 1,002]

The vessel can only smelt ores. If you have turned your metals into bars, you're going to have go out and find more ores.

 

Edit: I will add more warnings about this on the vessel and metalworking pages.

[Elso_Valager 0]

I suppose a follow-up question is relating to ores and the mixing therof, I've been really struggling to tell how many units each piece of ore is worth, between the regular ore and the small counterparts, because I thought it was 25 units for a larger piece, but when melting Sphalerite on a firepit, I found that four pieces did not actually fill up a mold entirely, and the fifth overlapped into a second tray. Are there finer numbers behind these chunks that I'm missing?

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Ah, that's because you're using the outdated method of melting ores in the firepit which results in random units for each ore smelted. That mechanic was actually supposed to be removed in build 77, but Dunk forgot about it.

 

The numbers of 25 for normal and 10 for small are correct when using any other method.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

oi, I wasn't the one who coded that.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

You were the one who said you were going to remove it though.