Flint takes super long to get up to temperature to make Calcined Flint

[Danglewood]

I just dumped 20 charcoal in the firepit to heat a stack of flint, the temperature only got to 860 degrees and yielded no calcined flint chunks. I don't know if this is a change in 1.22 or what. I was frustrated with the flint cooking process in the previous version, so I installed the Better Firepit mod. I thought that this mod would be causing an issue, I disabled it, but same thing. If someone could let me know if there is a new mechanic or I am doing something wrong that would be great.

[LadyWYT]

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1 hour ago, Danglewood said:

I just dumped 20 charcoal in the firepit to heat a stack of flint, the temperature only got to 860 degrees and yielded no calcined flint chunks. I don't know if this is a change in 1.22 or what.

1.22 changed the firepits so that the item temperature no longer resets when a new item starts cooking, but it takes longer to heat up stacks of items as a result. As for calcinating flint, if I'm recalling correctly the temperature needs to be 1000 C for it to calcinate, so you'll want to pop some coal/charcoal in there as fuel to get it hot enough to actually cook.

As for Better Firepits, I'm not sure if that mod is still working correctly on 1.22, but I don't think that's the issue here.

[Danglewood]

33 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

but it takes longer to heat up stacks of items as a result.

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Ahh, that's what I was afraid of. Guess I'll tend the fire some more. Thanks!

[LadyWYT]

1 minute ago, Danglewood said:

Ahh, that's what I was afraid of. Guess I'll tend the fire some more. Thanks!

In case your interested, there's a mod to make stacks cool off proportionally slower as well: https://mods.vintagestory.at/scs

Flint can also be cooked in a bloomery, so you don't necessarily have to use the firepit either.

[Calmest_of_lakes]

iirc you're intended to only heat up enough flint in a firepit to make a bloomery, which is way better for making calcined flint in bulk.