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MikeHBS

[Solved] Can't smelt using ceramic vessel

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I'm quite new to the game, but I was following the wiki guides, but when I tried doing the smelting of ores using the ceramic vessel, nothing changed, the ores were exactly as they were before the pit.

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We will need some info before we can help you.

For starters, what ores exactly were you trying to smelt?

How many and of what quality?

were they nugets? por normal or rich?

was it a singular ore? were you trying to make an alloy?

 

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Only certain ores can be melted in ceramic vessels. Copper, bismuth, zinc, gold, silver etc. But not for example iron. If you are making alloys you must have the ore unit % within the proper range for the alloy. For example 8-12% tin and 88-92% copper. If the ratio isn't correct you get ores back instead of an unknown alloy. 

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That's 12 small malachite (75% copper) and 4 small sphalerite (25% zinc).  Those together won't result in an alloy of anything and that is the reason they aren't smelting.

In fact you'd be *much* better leaving the sphalerite aside for the moment until you've found some bismuthinite (to make bismuth bronze), and instead, put 8 of your pieces of tetrahedrite in the mix to make in total 200 units of copper.

Don't forget you'll need a mould to pour your molten metal into!

I would always recommend a saw as your first tool unless you've found some surface ore deposits in which case a pick. In your case, as you have 200 units, you can make both :)

 

Check out the following 2 pages from the wiki - I have them bookmarked :)

Ores and minerals

Alloys

 

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3 hours ago, Bunsan said:

Only certain ores can be melted in ceramic vessels. Copper, bismuth, zinc, gold, silver etc. But not for example iron. If you are making alloys you must have the ore unit % within the proper range for the alloy. For example 8-12% tin and 88-92% copper. If the ratio isn't correct you get ores back instead of an unknown alloy. 

Also!! The following confused me extremely, so keep in mind:

If it said for ex 30-50% copper and 50-70% tin, you CANT do 30% copper mixed with 50% tin! Cuz 30% + 50% doesn't equal 100%! They have to add up to 100%! Not less, not more 30 + 70 ; 40 + 60 ; 50 + 50 WORK ( along with what's in between like 31 + 69 ; 32 + 68 and so on ) 

I will shortly try to make a smelting guide on how to figure out how to mix them without bashing your head against anything, it DOES require you to be decent at math, as there are many cases of mixtures, because any of the three or two ores can be poor normal or rich, values REALLY variate with smelting in TFC

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There are numerous alloy calculators available not really necessary to do a guide. All % must be in correct range and obviously the % has to equal 100% I'm not sure how you'd do the math to equal anything else. 

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There are calculators for this?! What rock was I living under cuz I had no dang idea! Sign me up and take my money! I was running thru all the dang algebra formulas and stuff to figure it out! Dude thanks! This has to be made more obvious!

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It makes sense, I was confusing Tetrahedrite with Sphalerite, dumb me.

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