Shattering an item during quenching should drop bits

[InternetDragon]

Said bits can then be re-melted in a bloomery. Bit yield should be 50-80% of material invested in making the item. 

[Byrnorthil]

I almost don't want to encourage this, as I want to see a more thorough rework ala MkMoose's thread and I fear a band-aid solution like this would just end up delaying that. But this would be better than how it is now.

[LadyWYT]

You'd need a way to smelt steel bits back into ingots; as it stands now there's no fuel hot enough to accomplish this.

[InternetDragon]

16 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

You'd need a way to smelt steel bits back into ingots; as it stands now there's no fuel hot enough to accomplish this.

simple fix: just add them into the list of things that can be put in a bloomery

[cjameshuff]

6 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

You'd need a way to smelt steel bits back into ingots; as it stands now there's no fuel hot enough to accomplish this.

Heat and weld tetris-bits of voxels together to form ingots? Maybe adding borax as flux.