Steel - Revision history

68.105.182.59: /* Recipe */ TinyEdit: to reduce wordiness/redundancy

2025-06-09T05:19:41Z

Recipe: TinyEdit: to reduce wordiness/redundancy

DPhKraken: Infobox units, fracture strengths

2025-02-12T02:13:06Z

Infobox units, fracture strengths

Quietust: /* Automated steel production */

2024-08-19T21:43:57Z

Automated steel production

Quietust: revert - these were referring to Work Orders, not simple production tasks

2024-08-19T21:33:59Z

revert - these were referring to Work Orders, not simple production tasks

Quietust: /* Automated steel production */

2024-08-19T21:30:45Z

Automated steel production

Quietust: clarify

2024-08-19T21:29:17Z

clarify

75.172.89.91: clarify that recipe requires 9 bituminous coal, not produces 9 coke

2024-08-19T18:49:26Z

clarify that recipe requires 9 bituminous coal, not produces 9 coke

Zippy: Replaced/resized image; corrected bar sprite.

2024-05-07T15:48:05Z

Replaced/resized image; corrected bar sprite.

Zippy: Added graphic.

2024-05-03T14:19:14Z

Added graphic.

DPhKraken: NPC adventurers and civless soldiers can spawn with any items_weapon/items_armor metal.

2024-04-24T18:17:16Z

NPC adventurers and civless soldiers can spawn with any items_weapon/items_armor metal.

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 <!-- EDITORS: If you think these calculations are incorrect, please explain on the Talk page. Also see "100% Recipe" in notes at bottom.  -->
-Steel production is fairly complex compared to the creation of other [[alloy]]s, which only involves one step to combine bars of different pure metals to create the final product. Steelmaking from iron bars* has two steps, and both require coke or charcoal ''as part of the actual reaction'', combining that "[[fuel]]" with the other ingredients. This is required ''in addition'' to any heating source, if using a non-magma smelter (full details below).
+Steelmaking from iron bars* has two steps, compared to one step for other [[alloy]]s, and both steps require coke or charcoal ''as part of the actual reaction'', combining that "[[fuel]]" with the other ingredients. This is required ''in addition'' to any heating source, if using a non-magma smelter (full details below).
 : ''(* If starting from iron ''[[ore]]'', you will first need to create iron bars. Steel (or Pig Iron) cannot be created directly from ore. 1 ore creates 4 bars, but the recipe only requires 2 at a time.)''

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 * 1 [[fuel|coal]] [[bar]]
 |properties=
-* [[Material value]] 30
+* [[Material value]] 30☼
 {{firemagmasafe|yes|yes}}
 * [[Melting point]] {{ct|12718}}
 * [[Boiling point]] {{ct|14968}}
 * [[Ignition point]] none
-* [[Solid density]] 7850
+* [[Solid density]] 7850 kg/m³
-* Liquid [[density]] 6980
+* Liquid [[density]] 6980 kg/m³
-* [[Specific heat]] 500
+* [[Specific heat]] 500 J/kg·K
 }}{{av}}

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 This automated process would produce 32 steel bars every 4 days, assuming you have an adequate flow of ore, coke-producing stone, flux stone and labourers. You can also make multiple work order sets to increase production as much as necessary.
-When using all magma furnaces, the ratio changes to 4 coke (from bituminous coal), 9 iron ore, 18 pig iron, and 18 steel bars. This process should produce 36 steel bars every 4 days with 0 extra products.
+When using all magma furnaces, the ratio changes to "4 coke from bituminous coal" / "8 coke from lignite" / "32 charcoal", "9 iron ore", "18 pig iron bars", and "18 steel bars". This process should produce 36 steel bars every 4 days with 0 extra products.
 Alternatively, you can put together a pipeline:

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 You can fully automate the production of steel via the use of a [[work order]]. The arrangement of these orders would be:
-:*Make at least 72 [[coke]] (from 9 [[bituminous coal]] or 18 [[lignite]]) or [[charcoal]] (from 72 logs), then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily (press {{K|+}} or {{K|-}} until "Restart if completed, checked daily" is visible).
+:*"Make 9 [[coke]] from [[bituminous coal]]" or "Make 18 [[coke]] from [[lignite]]" or "Make 72 [[charcoal]]", then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily (press {{K|+}} or {{K|-}} until "Restart if completed, checked daily" is visible).
-:*Smelt 8 [[magnetite]] ''(or [[hematite]] or [[limonite]])'' [[ore]], then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 9 [[coke]] from [[bituminous coal]]" or "Make 18 [[coke]] from [[lignite]]" or "Make 72 [[charcoal]]"
+:*"Smelt 8 [[magnetite]]" ''(or [[hematite]] or [[limonite]])'' [[ore]], then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 9 [[coke]] from [[bituminous coal]]" or "Make 18 [[coke]] from [[lignite]]" or "Make 72 [[charcoal]]" (whatever you chose above)
-:*Make 16 pig iron bars, then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Smelt 8 magnetite ''(or etc.)'' ores"
+:*"Make 16 pig iron bars", then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Smelt 8 magnetite ''(or etc.)'' ores"
-:*Make 16 steel bars, then  add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 16 pig iron bars"
+:*"Make 16 steel bars", then  add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 16 pig iron bars"
 :*Wait until the "Smelt 8 magnetite" order activates (once the coke or charcoal is done) to set its {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 16 steel bars"

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 :*Make at least 72 [[coke]] (from 9 [[bituminous coal]] or 18 [[lignite]]) or [[charcoal]] (from 72 logs), then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily (press {{K|+}} or {{K|-}} until "Restart if completed, checked daily" is visible).
-:*Smelt 8 [[magnetite]] ''(or [[hematite]] or [[limonite]])'' [[ore]], then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 9 [[coke]] from [[bituminous coal]]"
+:*Smelt 8 [[magnetite]] ''(or [[hematite]] or [[limonite]])'' [[ore]], then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 9 [[coke]] from [[bituminous coal]]" or "Make 18 [[coke]] from [[lignite]]" or "Make 72 [[charcoal]]"
 :*Make 16 pig iron bars, then add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Smelt 8 magnetite ''(or etc.)'' ores"
 :*Make 16 steel bars, then  add the {{K|c}}ondition to restart if completed, checked daily. then set the {{K|o}}rder condition to "Make 16 pig iron bars"

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 |name=Steel
 |sample=
-[[File:SteelSample.png|256px|center|frameless]]
+[[File:SteelSample.png|center|frameless]]
-|graphic=generic_grey_bar_sprite.png
+|graphic=steel_bar_sprite.png
 |color=0:7:1
 |color1=0:0:1

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 Steel can be created at a [[smelter]] by a [[dwarf]] with the [[furnace operator]] [[labor]] activated.
-Only dwarven [[civilization]]s produce and regularly make use of steel, and its production could be seen as a secret of the dwarven states – [[human]] and [[goblin]] civilizations make do with lesser metals and alloys, like [[bronze]], iron and [[copper]].
+Only dwarven [[civilization]]s produce and regularly make use of steel, and its production could be seen as a secret of the dwarven states – [[human]] and [[goblin]] civilizations make do with lesser metals and alloys, like [[bronze]], iron and [[copper]]. [[Criminal#Bandits|Bandits]], [[Entity token#MERCENARY|non-player adventurers]] and other [[Adventurer mode character creation#Outsider|outsiders]] to society can also be found with steel equipment of their own, some of which may become revered as [[Legendary artifact#Non-player artifacts|heroic objects]].
 ==Sedimentary layers==