steel nuggets won't melt

[Gorrgren Shaw]

does anyone know how to melt down steel nuggets?  charcoal wont get hot enough in the crucible and i cant insert them into the bloomery. 

[LadyWYT]

1 hour ago, Gorrgren Shaw said:

does anyone know how to melt down steel nuggets?

In vanilla? Currently, you don't. The only way to smelt steel nuggets back into something useful, is via installing a mod that allows such. Otherwise, you can switch to creative mode and swap the appropriate amount of nuggets for ingots, before switching back to survival.

 

1 hour ago, Gorrgren Shaw said:

charcoal wont get hot enough

Even with the modded route, you'll almost certainly need to use coal coke in order to smelt steel, as it's the hottest burning fuel in the game. However, I suppose it also depends on what the mod allows as well.

[Professor Dragon]

To add to what LadyWYT said, you could:

* Use the existing unusable steel ingots as decoration around your smithery.
* Switch into Creative and gift yourself a steel ingot.

I certainly did.