we could esily get hot enought to melt aluminum siding. I am not sure how hot that actualy is.
Aluminum 660.32 °C
other than some old tin cans (steel i think) that didnt fare to well either
As another aside, i was also presonaly at the aftermath of a trailer fire. we found a cast iorn pot that was half melted.
Tin 231.93 °C
Cast iron 1370 °C
(note, cast iron wasn't introduced into the west until the 1500s and even then it was pretty useless thanks to it's brittleness)Iron Ore 1510 °C
Wrought Iron 1,540 °C
Steel 1370 °C
Question is, by "melt" did you mean melt into a form that can be turned into bars or just sort of get soft and bend? That's not useful. Burning plain wood causes temperatures anywhere from 200 to 400 in the gases, in order to melt even copper you need to touch the newly formed charcoal which reaches about 1100 degrees. Copper melts at 1034 degrees by the way. Furnaces do play a role of course, otherwise we'd never be able to melt iron
Having spent the last few
hours Googling this shit, it dawns to me that we currently don't need charcoal to melt iron ore. Toady should fix this oversight, carbon is
needed to get the oxygen out of the rust
Trees don't exactly grow back in three years, coppicing should be implemented in place of such video gamey mechanics for forest growth
Oh and.. when you burn wood, it turns into charcoal towards the end of the process.
Burning cloth and leather would not do this and thus would never reach temperatures required to smelt anything beyond tin. Oh and that's pure tin, in order to extract tin from ore you heat it to about 1,350 'C using, you guessed it, charcoal
God damn this is hard to read and my thoughts are a mess after the 2 zillion contradictory holey sources.. To reiterate,
you can't melt shit without wood. Fuck socks,
fabrics reached about 500 degrees Celsius. That melts fuck all. I guess you would still be able to cook using random trash as fuel though
Oh and magma forges are laughable bullshit but I needn't mention that.