Is charcoal no longer hot enough to make an iron anvil?

[wintif]

I am playing 1.22 for the first time and after forging my iron anvil pieces, I am unable to actually join them, it saying that the lower anvil piece isnt hot enough (even though it is at the highest temp for charcoal, 750 C)

Wondering if this is just new balancing or a bug

[Nathan Flaminio]

Sounds like a bug, or maybe it's cooling too quickly. 

I usually get the temps up to over 800° to smith (830-850°). 

Just to check something else, you did put Borax on it, right? 

[wintif]

how are you getting those temps in the forge? Charcoal is capping at 750 for me, do I now need a coke oven to reach the required temps?

[MKMoose]

3 minutes ago, wintif said:

how are you getting those temps in the forge?

You can use bellows to raise the temperature of the forge above the default maximum for a given fuel type. Coke has the highest maximum of all fuel types at 800 °C (700 °C is the baseline, and you can see the bonus in the tooltip). Both of them are viable to make an iron anvil which requires at least 800 °C, although bellows will generally be easier to make and more broadly useful than coke.

[wintif]

I totally forgot about those! Thank you so much

1 minute ago, MKMoose said:

You can use bellows to raise the temperature of the forge

 

[Facethief]

17 hours ago, MKMoose said:

Coke has the highest maximum of all fuel types at 800 °C (700 °C is the baseline, and you can see the bonus in the tooltip). Both of them are viable to make an iron anvil which requires at least 800 °C, although bellows will generally be easier to make and more broadly useful than coke.

…Seriously, what is coke even for? It takes fire clay and iron to make, and I’ve never heard of it being used in-game, despite my real-world blacksmithing experience suggesting that it’s like 50% of the solid fuel used for forges (sample size of 2, and in the modern day…).