40d:Steel

Steel

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Uses
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Graphic
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Recipe
1 Iron bar 1 Pig iron bar 1 Coke 1 Flux
Properties
Magma proof Block% 133 Damage% 133 Material value 30
Wikipedia article

Steel can be smelted at a smelter by a dwarf with the furnace operator labor activated. It is an extremely durable metal and is highly valuable.

Steel is one of few materials that can resist melting when immersed in magma. Weapons and armor made from steel are 33% stronger than equivalent iron objects, making it second only to Adamantine for creating military equipment.

The method for making steel is unbearably accurate.

Recipe

The recipe for steel is:

• One pig iron bar
• One iron bar
• One flux material
• One carbonaceous material (coke or charcoal)

When the above items are combined at a smelter, the product is two bars of steel; the carbon and flux are lost in the reaction, but the pig iron and iron are combined into steel.

Production chain

The following amount of materials are needed to produce two steel bars:

• Two iron bars
• Two units of flux
• Two units refined coal or charcoal

The following steps are performed to produce two steel bars from the above materials:

1. Make pig iron bars (creates one pig iron bar)
   • One iron bar
   • One unit of flux
   • One unit of refined coal or charcoal
2. Make steel bars (creates two steel bars)
   • One iron bar
   • One pig iron bar
   • One unit of flux
   • One unit of refined coal or charcoal

The tasks Make Pig Iron Bars and Make Steel Bars use the same materials at either smelter. At a normal smelter, the refined coal is needed as a reagent but will also act as the fuel needed for the smelting operation. At a magma smelter, the refined coal is needed only as a reagent.

Once steel bars are produced, they are used just like other normal metal bars. The flux and refined coal reagents are only needed during the smelting.

If you have embarked on a map which does not have ready access to coal or flux, another possible, though expensive, way to obtain Steel is to buy out all the low quality steel weapons and armor from the Dwarven caravan and designate them for melting. For more information on melting recovery rates see Melt item

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