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Naz

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Converting iron to pig iron
« on: June 14, 2011, 12:45:24 pm »
Hey all, I've got almost zero experience with modding (made hydras reproduce so I could farm them but that's about it) and I'm wondering if you could help me out with something.

Is there a way to either modify the smelting reaction for making pig iron to use an iron bar instead of iron ore or add a new reaction that does that without having to regen my world?

My problem is that I genned a custom world and found an awesome spot that has one problem, there's about 3 tiny galena veins total on the map and no other metal ore of any type. As such I'm going to be dependent on goblinite.
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Re: Converting iron to pig iron
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2011, 01:03:02 pm »
The reaction to make pig iron already uses iron bars, not iron ore.
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Re: Converting iron to pig iron
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2011, 01:07:45 pm »
Well look at that...just spotted that on the wiki. Just shows how many times I've had a steel industry. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm going to go facepalm now.
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Re: Converting iron to pig iron
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2011, 02:57:24 pm »
Now you mention it, a reaction to create pig iron straight from iron ore would streamline the production of steel considerably without necessarily being cheating. Anyone know if it's possible in real life?
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Re: Converting iron to pig iron
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2011, 05:04:02 pm »
To me, creating pig iron from ore would just be skipping a step.  You're gonna do it anyways, might as well make it inclusive.  For that matter, I may try and have steel from ore, requiring more flux, fuel, and iron and produce steel straight from ore.

Then again, it suffers because current reactions look for iron.  To look for ore, you'd have to have different reactions for the different ore types, or else start pinning reaction_class to things.
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Re: Converting iron to pig iron
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2011, 05:43:18 pm »
I suppose you could make an iron bar, then while the furnace is still hot make it into pig iron. Heat would be your only problem, perhaps have two things of fuel required.

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Then again, it suffers because current reactions look for iron.  To look for ore, you'd have to have different reactions for the different ore types, or else start pinning reaction_class to things.

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[REAGENT:ore:1:METAL_ORE:IRON]
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Re: Converting iron to pig iron
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2011, 09:40:36 pm »
This exact reaction is included in my mod.

[REACTION:PIG_IRON_MAKING2]
[NAME:make pig iron bars (use ore)]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:1:METAL_ORE:IRON]
[REAGENT:D:300:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:COAL:NO_MATGLOSS]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:PIG_IRON][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[SKILL:SMELT]
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