Irritable Sloth

RESOLVED! THANK YOU! I made the bellows, heated the blister steel to about 940C and I was able to put it on the anvil. It's weird I was able to work regular steel at 800C but not the blister steel.

I am progressing into steel making. I have made my refractory, I have my blister steel ingots and I am told I need to work them on an iron anvil to make them into regular steel ingots. I try to place them on the iron anvil and nothing happens. I have heated them in a forge fueled by coke or charcoal, I have even tried not heating them, I have tried putting them on an iron anvil with and without iron helve hammers hot or cold. Nothing is working. I've looked through a dozen different guides and videos, no one encounters this problem or specifies the equipment or fuel. I notice in the inventory it says smelting is around 1500 Celsius, but my forge only gets to 750-800C on charcoal or coke. As a test, I have gone into creative mode and pulled two regular steel ingots, switched back to survival and I was able to work those just fine at 800C. Iron ingots can be worked at that temperature as well. I just can't place blister steel ingots on my iron anvil for some reason. Am I missing a steel making step? Am I using the wrong fuel? Is there hotter equipment than the "Forge?" Or is this just a bug? I am on v1.22.0, running a few mods that shouldn't effect this. Mod list included in attached image, the warning yellow triangles on the top two say "requires v1.22.0 and game is currently on v1.22.0" (don't know what happened there either). Please be ultra detailed and specific in your response (I'm kinda dumb). Thank you for your time.