Im terribly sorry for my english as it is not my main language and im writing this in a hurry during work.
Just that. I want to acomplish some goals with this one:
Give more life to Meteoric Iron since everyone likes it so much as we see people prize full meteoric armor over steel armor so much
Create a new tier of metal to be used in 1.22
Give more uses to borax
Reason to make and use some new powered machine in 1.22, like a metal press or a different hammer.
Before going into super alloys with Chromium, Manganese, Platinum, or even Stainless Steel, lets do Damascus Steel.
Meteoric Iron is so nice, and ''rare'', its such a shame to let it be forgotten after getting steel, the solution beign create a simple damascus with common Steel. It can give more life to Meteoric Iron and Borax.
Process:
Place a hot plate of steel,
and on top of that sprinkle borax,
after that, a hot plate of meteoric iron,
hit it with a steel hammer a few times,
then more borax,
and another plate of steel
and more hammering.
| Steel |
| Meteoric Iron |
| Steel |
Then, maybe some new machine from the mechanical power in 1.22 to press it, fold it, idk, and ta-da, you got yourself a Meteoric Steel Damascus ingot. Oh, we can have a 70/30 chance of success since artesanal damascus made folding steel can actually delaminate and fail.
Maybe after the ingot is formed it needs to be cooked in a beehive kiln for consolidation / heat treat.
To use the ingot, you would need a steel hammer, and steel anvil of course.
This skyrim mod illustrates the concept for armor using this damascus ingot/plate/chain, but in VS it will have the meteoric iron white with its charming spots/sprinkles trough it.
Damascus tools would also be epic.
Uh? Uh? What about that?