Cooling molds with water.

[bibby]

I find it greatly satisfying to take a hot work item off of the anvil and Q it into water to quickly cool the item for immediate assembly.

So when I built my current smithing structure, I made a shallow channel attached to a well with a dirt plug where I placed my molds.

I was hoping that pours could be cooled down more quickly by pulling the plug and letting water run over the molds, but I found that this did not work.

It'd be pretty nice if it did, imo. Thanks for reading.

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by bibby
grammars

[SereptitiousServal]

I recently tried to cool a heated mold with a watering can. It can be done! But the mold shattered and the part was lost, refunding me about three-fourths of the material cost.

This would be neat, even if we needed more durable molds to do it.

[Maelstrom]

That was a feature implemented in the 1.20 update.