The Steel Ore could be a block found in relatively large veins under the layer where iron is found.
You would need an iron pickaxe and diamond pickaxe to collect Steel successfully. It doesn't need
to be smelted, and it looks like greenish-grey coal.
Crafting
You can craft it into all tools and the armor form can be the chainmail armor, usually uncraftable. As a bonus, it can replace iron in the recipe for Flint and Steel. It can also be crafted into a hammer, which I will show the crafing recipe to below.
S=Steel
W=Stick
A=Air
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[ S ][ S ][ S ]
[ S ][ S ][ S ]
[ A ][ W ][ A ]
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The Hammer
The hammer has half the power of a sword and can break simple ores and stones. Although it can be a weapon and a mining tool, it has a main purpose; When anvils are added, interacting with one with a hammer in hand will
make all tools upgraded a small portion more powerful or efficient, enchantment rules applied.
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Just 'cause my name's MasterHalo, don't expect me to be GOOD at Halo.
Steel is an alloy, not a pure metal. Specifically, it's an alloy of iron and carbon (and, in modern steels, all kinds of other metals, too). There's no such thing as steel ore. (now, there's no such thing as redstone ore, either, but redstone is entirely imaginary, so it's not crashing into a real-world definition of what it is)
Now, your idea might work if we could make steel out of some combination of iron and coal. Hm, maybe putting iron as the material in a furnace, with coal to power it of course, would produce steel. That might be viable.
Steel is an alloy, not a pure metal. Specifically, it's an alloy of iron and carbon (and, in modern steels, all kinds of other metals, too). There's no such thing as steel ore. (now, there's no such thing as redstone ore, either, but redstone is entirely imaginary, so it's not crashing into a real-world definition of what it is)
Now, your idea might work if we could make steel out of some combination of iron and coal. Hm, maybe putting iron as the material in a furnace, with coal to power it of course, would produce steel. That might be viable.
Yeah, I also realized there are other suggestions for steel, but mine also has the chainmail amor idea and the hammer. Thank you for the reply and like your feedback.
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Just 'cause my name's MasterHalo, don't expect me to be GOOD at Halo.
Alloy, yes. Iron+coal, yes! But coal would have to be part of the smelting materials, not just the fuel. Maybe an extra step before the furnace to produce a sort of paste ready to smelt (similar to going from clay to brick).
Alloy, yes. Iron+coal, yes! But coal would have to be part of the smelting materials, not just the fuel. Maybe an extra step before the furnace to produce a sort of paste ready to smelt (similar to going from clay to brick).
Good idea! It would go from the raw material, simply named, Raw Steel. Then it would be smelted into a greyish-greenish ingot named 'Steel Alloy'. After that, you need to smelt it into what looks like a steel colored diamond, called Steel. It obviously has to be crafted into a block.
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Just 'cause my name's MasterHalo, don't expect me to be GOOD at Halo.
Since the idea of Steel is brought up in this thread (originally and mistakenly as an Ore)
I'd like to explore a process for producing Steel:
Iron Ore +=> Furnace ===> Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Refined Iron Ingot
3 Refined Iron Ingots + Coal/charcoal +=> Crafting ===> 2 Raw Steel Ingots
Refined Carbon Iron Ingot / Raw Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Steel Ingot
Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Refined Steel Ingot
3 Refined Steel Ingots + Coal/charcoal +=> Crafting ===> 2 Raw Carbon Steel Ingot
Raw Carbon Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Carbon Steel Ingot
3 Carbon Steel Ingots +=> Crafting ===> 2 Laminate Steel Ingots
Laminate Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Damascus Steel Ingot
This adds several new ingots (all of which you could use to make slight upgrades to weapons/armor/tools):
Refined Iron Ingot
Raw Steel Ingot
Steel Ingot
Refined Steel Ingot
Raw Carbon Steel Ingot
Carbon Steel Ingot
Laminate Steel Ingot
Damascus Steel Ingot
Yeah... I know it's a lot of blocks, and there is a slight resource loss as you achieve the next level.
Too FTB/Tekkit. And yeah, steel is an alloy. Why do we need a hammer? C'mon, people.
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Although my MCForum is SoarvivalistGizor, I usually go by SlabGizor117 or Slab. I made this account back when I was a fan more of Paulsoaresjr, rather then Etho.
Although the alloy thing wasn't in the post (And still isn't, sorry.) it has been noted and agreed with in the comments. What do you mean, "Too FTB/Tekkit"? The hammer is just a way to increase the effeciency of upgrades on the anvil (When that's added on Xbox). What is the "C'mon, people" remark supposed to mean? I love feedback, but being like that doesn't come off well.
I've been watching the guys from Yogscast doing a Let's Play in the Galacticraft mod and the way they make Steel ingots is first they smelt the Iron ore into an iron ingot, then they re-smelt the iron ingot to get the Steel ingot.
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WIP 128x 64x, SEUS support, Mod support in the pipeline TEKKIT, FTB, the more support the more mods!
That, I guess could work. I think it would start from an iron ingot, and you add a coal in a crafting whatever, and that would make Raw Steel. Smelt that, and you get Steel Ingots. If that is considered too many steps, smelting iron to steel wouldn't be bad. I would hope they could add the hammer though.
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Just 'cause my name's MasterHalo, don't expect me to be GOOD at Halo.
That, I guess could work. I think it would start from an iron ingot, and you add a coal in a crafting whatever, and that would make Raw Steel. Smelt that, and you get Steel Ingots. If that is considered too many steps, smelting iron to steel wouldn't be bad. I would hope they could add the hammer though.
You could save a step by making it so that Iron will ONLY smelt to steel if there is coal/charcoal in an active (burning) furnace on a 1:1 ratio of Iron ingot to coal/charcoal, and just uses one from each (top and bottom) when the bar is smelted into steel.
You wouldn't be able to (easily) use wood in this method, as it would require a coal/charcoal present in the bottom, plus 1 more, in order to start the smelting on one block of iron.
Alternatively... you could just make the re-smelting process of the iron ingots into steel ingots take a much longer time than processing iron ore into iron ingots. (i.e. 1 unit of coal burn time to re-smelt one iron ingot into one steel ingot).
This would forgo the crafting table step and still get that feel of carbonizing the iron.
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Yeah, I also realized there are other suggestions for steel, but mine also has the chainmail amor idea and the hammer. Thank you for the reply and like your feedback.
Good idea! It would go from the raw material, simply named, Raw Steel. Then it would be smelted into a greyish-greenish ingot named 'Steel Alloy'. After that, you need to smelt it into what looks like a steel colored diamond, called Steel. It obviously has to be crafted into a block.
I'd like to explore a process for producing Steel:
Iron Ore +=> Furnace ===> Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Refined Iron Ingot
3 Refined Iron Ingots + Coal/charcoal +=> Crafting ===> 2 Raw Steel Ingots
Refined Carbon Iron Ingot / Raw Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Steel Ingot
Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Refined Steel Ingot
3 Refined Steel Ingots + Coal/charcoal +=> Crafting ===> 2 Raw Carbon Steel Ingot
Raw Carbon Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Carbon Steel Ingot
3 Carbon Steel Ingots +=> Crafting ===> 2 Laminate Steel Ingots
Laminate Steel Ingot +=> Furnace ===> Damascus Steel Ingot
This adds several new ingots (all of which you could use to make slight upgrades to weapons/armor/tools):
Refined Iron Ingot
Raw Steel Ingot
Steel Ingot
Refined Steel Ingot
Raw Carbon Steel Ingot
Carbon Steel Ingot
Laminate Steel Ingot
Damascus Steel Ingot
Yeah... I know it's a lot of blocks, and there is a slight resource loss as you achieve the next level.
could skip the refinement process....and just use the crafting table for the ultimate output
Iron Ore +=> Furnace ===> Iron Ingot
3 Iron Ingots + Coal/charcoal +=> Crafting ===> 2 Steel Ingots
3 Steel Ingots + Coal/charcoal +=> Crafting ===> 2 Carbon Steel Ingot
3 Carbon Steel Ingots +=> Crafting ===> 2 Damascus Steel Ingots
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27 Iron Ingots, to make
18 Steel Ingots, to make
12 Carbon Steel Ingots, to make
8 Damascus Steel Ingots
Although my MCForum is SoarvivalistGizor, I usually go by SlabGizor117 or Slab. I made this account back when I was a fan more of Paulsoaresjr, rather then Etho.
You could save a step by making it so that Iron will ONLY smelt to steel if there is coal/charcoal in an active (burning) furnace on a 1:1 ratio of Iron ingot to coal/charcoal, and just uses one from each (top and bottom) when the bar is smelted into steel.
You wouldn't be able to (easily) use wood in this method, as it would require a coal/charcoal present in the bottom, plus 1 more, in order to start the smelting on one block of iron.
Alternatively... you could just make the re-smelting process of the iron ingots into steel ingots take a much longer time than processing iron ore into iron ingots. (i.e. 1 unit of coal burn time to re-smelt one iron ingot into one steel ingot).
This would forgo the crafting table step and still get that feel of carbonizing the iron.