What makes coke worth it vs charcoal?

[Dandyroot]

I just started steel production for the first time, and am finding out just how much charcoal i've had to load up, and how much the process is likely to consume.

It has me wondering, is this where coke comes into play as an alternative? i wouldn't THINK so, since it seems even harder to get your hands on and no more effective. But, the fact it's included in the game, as well as having a whole dedicated process to making it, makes me wonder if there's some sort of economy to it that i'm not seeing that makes it worth it to invest in.

Is there? for steelmaking, or for any other utility?

[Thorfinn]

I made some in 1.19, I think, to see if I could smelt some special metals. Might have been titanium or nickel, I don't remember.

Turns out, yes, you can smelt them, but you can't do anything with those ingots. Yet.

I think it's way too tedious to make them 8 at a time, particularly now that fireclay is that much harder to come by. In the time you could mine all that coal and empty and refill a dozen coke ovens, you could have made a pit full of charcoal. I'm not sure it would be worth it if the coke oven held nine stacks of coal at a time instead of just the one.

[Bumber]

It's for cupronickel alloy, IIRC.

[Destroyer_V0]

Like Bumber Said.

If you want to make many of the jonas devices, including the new rickety teleporter, you need cupronickel. Nickel, has a VERY high melting point. That is what you need it for, a tiny lil campfire with a crucible getting up to 1400 degrees.

[Maelstrom]

Best use of Jonas parts?   Resonator and play the tunes of your choice near a rift.

[StCatharines]

On 5/6/2025 at 1:02 PM, Maelstrom said:

Best use of Jonas parts?   Resonator and play the tunes of your choice near a rift.

Or during a temporal storm. Creepy results!

[Maelstrom]

Indeed!   Fits the genre of the game perfectly, says I.

[Bumber]

On 5/6/2025 at 12:02 PM, Maelstrom said:

Best use of Jonas parts?   Resonator and play the tunes of your choice near a rift.

You can just buy those from traders. Only around 50 gears, IIRC.

[Maelstrom]

Unless you don't want to wait for one, or (like in my case) that particular trader is thousands of blocks away and I don't visit it very often.

[Bumber]

Getting the correct Jonas components is RNG dependent, on the other hand.