Calcinated Flint? (1.20.2)

[EndlessOats]

Not sure if it's working yet or not, but I can't get flint to cook. Tried crucible, tried firepit (it gives you the "needs container" message like metal), tried cooking pot. Haven't tried baking in an oven cause I need the flint for fire clay to make the oven. Is this feature just not implemented yet, or am I missing something, or is this a bug? In any case I guess I have to go hunt underground coal before winter so I don't have to exist on porridge for 6 months.

[Streetwind]

...eh? Are you running mods?

That's not a thing in the basegame.

[EndlessOats]

22 minutes ago, Streetwind said:

...eh? Are you running mods?

That's not a thing in the basegame.

Playing the new preview update.

[Streetwind]

Then that's likely something unfinished, or something just being tested. None of the patchnotes mention anything like "calcinated flint". If it was a new feature or a change to earlygame progression, it would most likely be communicated as such...

[Ryan Thomas]

Works just fine in pre.4

[EndlessOats]

28 minutes ago, Ryan Thomas said:

Works just fine in pre.4

Thank you a lot I didn't know pre.4 was out that's so awesome thank you

[Khornet]

Sorry but I can't find any info about this anywhere else and I'm very curious: what's the point/use of calcinated flint? No mention of it in the patch notes...

[Brady_The]

21 minutes ago, Khornet said:

Sorry but I can't find any info about this anywhere else and I'm very curious: what's the point/use of calcinated flint? No mention of it in the patch notes...

You can use it in combination with blue and red clay to craft the fiery version.

[Thorfinn]

And at more than one coal/charcoal per firebrick, bloomeries are a much bigger investment. Ovens cost 20-ish charcoal. My former standard kitchen costs a stack and a half of charcoal. Has me rethinking tiers of refractory bricks, too. Fireclay, quartz and bauxite were common enough to not care that it was just tier 1, and 5%(?) would be destroyed.

[EDIT]

Takes me back to my first few games, making tools out of knappable stones because I lacked flint. And for most stuff, (all except missile heads) it just doesn't matter as much as I was thinking it did. And copper isn't a good enough upgrade to make that worth it for most purposes. Trim the leaves and trees don't take that much longer with granite than they do with copper.

Edited October 4, 2024 by Thorfinn

[Khornet]

I can't imagine ever lacking flint, if anything I had tons of it in my chests just lying around. You find one biome with surface obsidian and flint becomes obsolote forever; at least in my experience.
So I was happy to see those stacks of flint are getting some resource sink mechanic, alas, it's only for different brick colors... was hoping it had something to do with fuel efficiency maybe because farming charcoal in industrial quantities is such a chore.

[Thorfinn]

It's not color. You need it to make fireclay, as fireclay now only exists in nature below some coal seams. This change has made charcoal much more grindy.

Edited October 4, 2024 by Thorfinn

[Khornet]

19 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

You need it to make fireclay, as fireclay now only exists in nature below some coal seams. This change has made charcoal much more grindy.

WHAT

GOD DAMNIT TYRON

[Thorfinn]

It's not really that bad. You know all those times when you are waiting for something or other to finish up? All that calcined flint, for example? Put on your Paul Bunyan shirt. 

You lose about 2 charcoal, 1.5 flint and some clay for every bloom you run. And each gives you 6 iron blooms, right? Not that big of a deal, unless you like building with iron or something. You probably won't make massive glass structures anymore. Unless maybe there's a different way to make glass. You will also likely go after coal, which I never bothered with before, except black, for ore-blasting bombs. 

I mean, yeah, if you have to have steel armor, you are going to need a whole lot of flint, or spend a whole lot more time getting higher-tier refractory materials. But iron was way too easy for the advantages that accrued.

[Brady_The]

Don't forget, we are still in the pre-phase, so at best things may still be subject to change, and at worst mods haven't been released yet. Haha