Smelting forge mistakes

[Brendon]

Sometimes a mistake is made and a forged bit of metal becomes useless, there seems now way to re-smelt this.

Would be good to re smelt metal, even if there is some loss to the total metal involved.

[Silent Shadow]

You can remelt any non-iron workpiece back into an ingot with no material loss (other than the charcoal) and try to make the item you want again. Iron workpieces are similar but go through the bloomery process again.

[Brendon]

4 hours ago, Silent Shadow said:

You can remelt any non-iron workpiece back into an ingot with no material loss (other than the charcoal) and try to make the item you want again. Iron workpieces are similar but go through the bloomery process again.

Hi, thanks... but i have tried, i have a messed up bronze piece.  point it at the cruicble to re smelt to liquid, does not work.  how do you do this?

[Streetwind]

Ever since 1.15, you have to craft the workpiece together with a chisel in order to break it into smeltable bits.

[Brendon]

Thanks streetwind, but i still do not get it.  This peice is supposed to be a bronze plate, but its missing to much.  So its usless.  I have the chisel but im not sure how you mean to break it up??

[Silent Shadow]

Make a chisel, then put it into the inventory gird with the work piece. You should have nuggets of the metal come out as the product as well as the chisel with less health. You can do this with your copper anvil too once you make your bronze or iron anvil.

[Streetwind]

 

12 minutes ago, Brendon said:

This peice is supposed to be a bronze plate, but its missing to much.

Ah, right. You actually didn't make a mistake, then. This is working as intended.

Some recipes simply require more voxels than a single ingot can supply. In that case, add another heated ingot to the workpiece. Plates always require two ingots each, for example. Later-on, there will even be recipes that require more than two ingots.

 

Edited August 2, 2021 by Streetwind

[Brendon]

i know what you mean, but can i change the state its intended.  ie, thats a plate.  but now i want to make a knife.  can i re smelt that piece?

 

Edited August 2, 2021 by Brendon

[Silent Shadow]

I think that once you designate a shape for an ingot, you either got to go through with it or re-smelt it. Kinda annoying, got to measure twice and cut once kind of deal.

[Kevin Eric Snell]

Wow, I'm trying to make a sawblade and can't get anywhere. No amount of smithing gets the voxels into the right spots. 3 ingots in already

[Kevin Eric Snell]

Watching Youtube tutorials now. Yikes, this game desperately needs some kind of smithing tutorial. Just speaking from a first-time player perspective, that is utterly unintuitive. None of the smithing controls were explained in-game. That's a lot of wasted copper. I'll try again.