Steel; we have iron; but not steel. I belive we need a missing link between diamond and iron; gold is like wood; steel would fit in nicely. We could make diamond stronger and steel to fit in nicely between use levels of iron and diamond. We could also make armor. Maybe steel whould be whiter; or iron would be editted to look duller.
Well, I don't know if steel would be a nessecary addition, but I've got the recipe for you right here:
Cook coal in a stove to make coke (Apparently when your burn coal it becomes a better source of fuel, just like how charcoal burns more efficently than wood. Don't ask me, ask the steel industry.), and then cook iron with coke as fuel. The one trick is that coke doesn't provide as much burn time as coal, so it makes steel a rarer resource. I know that's not how they did it in the old days, but there isn't much room for ye olde methods when a stove only has one cooking block.
Fired; it's not the best ore... And it's only as good as wood. Iron and diamond is better then wood/gold.
yes is it the best ore as i said it is faster than diamond but only as durable as wood... It has been like this since v 1.2 But with the pickaxe it is only good for cobblestone.
Fired; it's not the best ore... And it's only as good as wood. Iron and diamond is better then wood/gold.
yes is it the best ore as i said it is faster than diamond but only as durable as wood... It has been like this since v 1.2 But with the pickaxe it is only good for cobblestone.
I can vouch for this statement. Gold is faster at everything than any other ore. Yes, it beats diamond at speed. Obviously, diamond is still better, considering gold has ~30 uses and diamond has ~2,000.
Cook coal in a stove to make coke (Apparently when your burn coal it becomes a better source of fuel, just like how charcoal burns more efficently than wood. Don't ask me, ask the steel industry.)
Cooking these things makes them hotter fuels, not necessarily better ones. A lot of energy is lost in the process, but the byproduct burns at a higher temperature. You need the higher temperatures to make steels and such, but it is significantly less efficient as far as energy output, since so much wood must be burned to make a relatively small amount of charcoal.
Just in case you were curious.
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Steel is man-made, created by using iron ore and high heat. Making it natural in minecraft would make little if any sense, except maybe near lava.
This. OP fails at chemistry. Steel is iron. The only chemical difference is carbon content. And even cast iron doesn't have more than 4% carbon by weight. So if this is a proposition for a new ore block that can be found in the ground, shame.
However, I would like the ability to make steel. I think that the tech tree would have to expand some before we can make steel add anything to Minecraft's gameplay, though.
But I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned before.
Cook coal in a stove to make coke (Apparently when your burn coal it becomes a better source of fuel, just like how charcoal burns more efficently than wood. Don't ask me, ask the steel industry.), and then cook iron with coke as fuel. The one trick is that coke doesn't provide as much burn time as coal, so it makes steel a rarer resource. I know that's not how they did it in the old days, but there isn't much room for ye olde methods when a stove only has one cooking block.
yes is it the best ore as i said it is faster than diamond but only as durable as wood... It has been like this since v 1.2 But with the pickaxe it is only good for cobblestone.
I can vouch for this statement. Gold is faster at everything than any other ore. Yes, it beats diamond at speed. Obviously, diamond is still better, considering gold has ~30 uses and diamond has ~2,000.
Cooking these things makes them hotter fuels, not necessarily better ones. A lot of energy is lost in the process, but the byproduct burns at a higher temperature. You need the higher temperatures to make steels and such, but it is significantly less efficient as far as energy output, since so much wood must be burned to make a relatively small amount of charcoal.
Just in case you were curious.
Sir Francis Bacon
This. OP fails at chemistry. Steel is iron. The only chemical difference is carbon content. And even cast iron doesn't have more than 4% carbon by weight. So if this is a proposition for a new ore block that can be found in the ground, shame.
However, I would like the ability to make steel. I think that the tech tree would have to expand some before we can make steel add anything to Minecraft's gameplay, though.
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