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The best part about that guy is the total absence of spoken language. But, then, the source of the iron is also pretty incredible: Then I collected orange i
by T0T0R0 10y ago
The best part about that guy is the total absence of spoken language.
But, then, the source of the iron is also pretty incredible:
Then I collected orange iron bacteria from
the creek (iron oxide), mixed it with charcoal
powder (carbon to reduce oxide to metal) and
wood ash (flux to lower the melting point) and
formed it into a cylindrical brick. I filled
the furnace with charcoal, put the ore brick in
and commenced firing. The ore brick melted and
produced slag with tiny, 1mm sized specs of iron
through it. My intent was not so much to make
iron but to show that the furnace can reach a
fairly high temperature using this blower.
- shostack 10y agoThe really impressive feat is how humanity figured that out to begin with.
- 13of40 10y agoSometimes you can find it just lying around on the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_meteorite http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2909898/Before-iron-Greenland-METEORITE-Age-Prehistoric-Eskimos-mined-giant-space-rocks-make-tools-weapons.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2909898/Befor...
- rusanu 10y agoBog iron [0] production was the predominant way of smelting iron before technology advanced to the point of being able to smelt iron ores. Iron Production in the Viking Age [1] has a really nice description and pictures of the process. This kind of smelting can be done with a small bloomery [2] and the resulted tiny iron specs result is called sponge iron. I wish Dwarf Fortress would implement this chain for environs that lack proper iron ores :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron [1] http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/bog_iron.htm http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery
- zdkl 10y agoIf you can work a forteress without both coal derivatives AND metallic ores deposits, you're a better dorf than I am.
- hobs 10y agoDo you have water? A pump room with specific gates is a great way to murder traders and steal all of their things without them declaring war on you. However, this entirely breaks the game and if you dont have your entrances and exists covered, you will be sieged VERY soon.
- Brybry 10y agoThere are smelting bugs in the game where melting down certain items produces more metal than it takes to make them. That and hatch covers (building destroyers can't destroy on different z-axis) makes it really hard to lose in Fun ways. Most of my fortresses die from FPS death.