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(A story I wrote myself (Geobeetle) in the Kitfox discord about why borax wasn't a flux, and thought it was good enough to put here.)
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Legend has it that the first dwarf that discovered borax tried to use it as an axe, and declared it "boring" and useless, and named it as such. Thus eliminating the chance for it to be used as anything else, even though humans insist it makes for a great flux.
  
 
Some dwarves claim that borax "speaks for the stones".
 
Some dwarves claim that borax "speaks for the stones".

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Borax
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Uses

Location

  • Found within gypsum as small clusters
  • Found within rock salt as large clusters
Properties
Fire-safe Not magma-safe

Wikipedia article

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Borax is an unremarkable white stone which can be found in large quantities within rock salt and in small quantities within gypsum.

Unlike real life, Borax can NOT be used as flux in game.

Real life

In real-life, borax is used as powder to either protect wood or is used as a flux while forging iron among many other uses (borax is a great aid for hot-forging two metals, for example it is needed to forge "damascus steel").

Borax.
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Legend has it that the first dwarf that discovered borax tried to use it as an axe, and declared it "boring" and useless, and named it as such. Thus eliminating the chance for it to be used as anything else, even though humans insist it makes for a great flux.

Some dwarves claim that borax "speaks for the stones".

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