if blast furnace is required, i just dont see the point of such addition but wasting coal.The new, additional MFFS added this recipe (at least in 1.1.0) and if I'm not mistaken, then you still need a Blast Furnace to convert the Steel Dust into steel.
The new, additional MFFS added this recipe (at least in 1.1.0) and if I'm not mistaken, then you still need a Blast Furnace to convert the Steel Dust into steel.
if blast furnace is required, i just dont see the point of such addition but wasting coal.
i highly doubt that it can be smelted into 2 ingots. 1 ingot at best.There is no blast furnace requirement. This dust can be melted into 2 ingots worth of molten steel in the TC smeltery. it can also be furnace smelted into 2 ingots directly. (as of version 1.1.1)
If it's gone from the 1.1.2 version, then i can understand that from a server balance perspective. coal is cheap, and steel is used by several mods as a kind of gateway price for starting down their techpaths
i highly doubt that it can be smelted into 2 ingots. 1 ingot at best.
the thing is, blast furnace requirement is simply worse then disabling this recipe at all. besides it`s completely balanced.
i`m not arguing against NEI, i`m just telling how pointless it would be if blast furnace is required.I wouldn't try to argue against NEI.
i`m not arguing against NEI, i`m just telling how pointless it would be if blast furnace is required.
yes, but it's not. according to nei you can use just about any smelting machine there is, including the vanilla furnace. at closer inspection, it seems that the only machines giving a 1 to 1 ratio on this dust is the Tinkerer construct smeltery. the RC blast furnace doesn't accept this dust at all.
It's from the new MFFS, which is built on a UE foundation, and contains UE Basics, which contains the 4x coal + 1x iron = 1x steel dust recipe.
Honestly, it's fairly inefficient and a waste of coal that could better be put to making coal coke.
There's also the steel dust made via Mekanism, but that's not part of FTB either.Steel dust is added by atomic science, it returns two ignots upon smelting, it only needs be smelted in a blast furnace if GT's present.
I don't know why everyone is tripping over this steel thing. It is not like anyone is suggesting it as your main way to get steal. The thread is titled Tinkers Construct good STARTING tools. It is not going to kill anyone to get a little but of costly steal to have a good starting tool that can mine everything basically. Just a little iron and coal and you got a pick that works on every ore you will run into. Yes there are many better ways and I am not suggesting to grind up to fortune 3 on a hammer. The hammer is not a STARTING tool. But if you want a good STARTING tool a steel pick is a fairly good one and since you will be using it for a lot of things while you get started tossing some lapis when you find some is not a bad idea as it will level up while you just do your normal digging and the such.
Pheeeew, I'm not completely senile ... yet.
FTB Unleashed 1.1.1:
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But I do have GregTech 3.11 included in my pack, this probably changed it into a Blast Furnace recipe. (The other pages are for Industrial Blast Furnace and ore dictionary.) Also tested it in the Blast Furnace, it does smelt it into an ingot, while the Powered Furnace doesn't accept the dust as input.
But you are most likely correct as well, without GregTech it can be used in a regular furnace.
I don't know why everyone is tripping over this steel thing. It is not like anyone is suggesting it as your main way to get steal. The thread is titled Tinkers Construct good STARTING tools. It is not going to kill anyone to get a little but of costly steal to have a good starting tool that can mine everything basically. Just a little iron and coal and you got a pick that works on every ore you will run into. Yes there are many better ways and I am not suggesting to grind up to fortune 3 on a hammer. The hammer is not a STARTING tool. But if you want a good STARTING tool a steel pick is a fairly good one and since you will be using it for a lot of things while you get started tossing some lapis when you find some is not a bad idea as it will level up while you just do your normal digging and the such.