I loved Gregtech. Then I figured out on his GT suggestion thread he said later he would make adventure mode the default gamemode, and make wood harvestable by hand. This lost me.
No, one doesn't imply the other. The metalsmiths were working with the iron before without being able to cast a sword directly, without cracking or destroying the piece.
i think you`re misunderstanding terms "cast iron" and "casted iron".Swords are never ever cast directly, no matter what you're seeing in movies. Cast iron has very different properties and is very brittle. Cast iron swords would shatter on the first hit. Go try find a cast iron pot and throw it on the floor, you'll see what I mean.
i think you`re misunderstanding terms "cast iron" and "casted iron".
cast iron - is an iron-carbon alloy with at least 2% of carbon.
casted iron - is a liquid iron that poured into a mold and was solidified.
while cast iron is casted, casted iron isnt necessarily a cast iron.
and so?
i get it. what bugs me a terminology of English language about that matter: if you cast iron with at least ~2% of carbon you get cast iron; if you content of carbon is lower then you casted steel.If you cast iron you get cast iron. It's brittle because of the way iron forms a crystalline matrix. No matter your definition of "casted" versus "cast", smiths don't cast a chunk of metal, sharpen it a bit, and call it a sword (or any other tool). Gregs sense of "realism" is misplaced. Just like his half-assed attempt at chemistry.
If you melt an actual sword down, then cast it, it has very different properties than the original sword, even though it's the same allow.
bronze and iron-carbon alloys are completely differentYou can cast liquid bronze directly into a sword using a mold to do so.
CrabCow,
I moved your post into the most recent thread with GregTech-centric discussion as that seems to be what you were admittedly looking for in starting a new thread. Have at it. =)
if things were pretty in GT, it would be indeed a magical boxes mod.If anybody would mind me saying, I recently started playing with GT and it's an OK mod. Not the best mind you, but OK if you enjoy "balance". But I found myself being quite frustrated with the lack of "pretty blocks". For me the main purpose of minecraft is making pretty things. Or if you have mods pretty functioning things. Gregtech takes care of the later but I found it severely lacking in the former.
if things were pretty in GT, it would be indeed a magical boxes mod.