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==Iron Age== | ==Iron Age== | ||
Iron tools will give you again a significant boost in strength and durability. | |||
* Make sure you have a bronze anvil, as you won't be able to smith iron tools on a copper anvil. | |||
* You will need to gather fire clay, make fire bricks, burn the firebricks in a fire pit and then build a bloomery base and chimney | |||
{{Grid/Crafting | |||
|A1=Fire Brick|B1=Fire Brick|C1=Fire Brick | |||
|A2=Fire Brick|B2=Fire Brick|C2=Fire Brick | |||
|A3=Fire Brick|B3=|C3=Fire Brick | |||
|Output=Bloomery|nobreak=y}} | |||
{{Grid/Crafting | |||
|A1=|B1=|C1= | |||
|A2=|B2=Fire Brick|C2= | |||
|A3=Fire Brick|B3=Fire Brick|C3=Fire Brick | |||
|Output=Bloomery Chimney}} | |||
* Place the base anywhere and the chimney on top | |||
* Sneak + Right click the base to add fuel and ore. It won't accept fuel whose burning temperature is too low. Bloomeries can smelt any ore actually, at a higher temperature than the fire pit, but cost significant quantities of fuel. It is currently the only method to smelt iron ore and quartz. | |||
* Sneak + Right click the base with a torch in hands to ignite the bloomery. Once the bloomery stopped smoking you have to break it to pieces in order to get to iron bloom | |||
Iron bloom has to be worked on the anvil to get iron ingots. This is a rather tedious process so its recommended to eventually mechanize this task with the helve hammer | |||
==Mechanization== | |||
* Iron bloom and metal plate working can be automated with the helve hammer | |||
* Grinding of grains and other materials can be automated with the quern |