Charcoal Pit 4

This mod restructures the metallurgical progress of the game as well as the way charcoal is made. It also adds some crops.

Time to mine

Stone Tools have been replaced with Flint, which can be found in rivers or caves. Copper Tools are also available and have marginally better stats than Flint. As for Wood Tools, only the shovel and hoe can be crafted, but a Bone Pickaxe can serve as an equivalent in a pinch. A Wood Club and Flint Javelins complete the primitive tool set.

Charcoal Pits and Coke Ovens

By placing either Log Piles or Coal Blocks in the world, completely covering them with valid blocks and lighting them on fire, Charcoal and Coal Coke can be made. Charcoal Pits will accept any solid non-flammable block like dirt but Coke Ovens need to be encased in Ceramic Bricks. Sandy Bricks are available as a more neutral color. A working Pit/Oven will emit smoke particles from the top. After about a day it will finish and the products can be dug out.

Since Iron is only available later in the progression, Flint and Steel can be made with raw iron for 6 uses, while making it out of real steel gives the full 375 uses.

Creosote oil can be collected using a funnel on the top of the pile. Creosote can be used as fuel and it hurts insects like spiders.

Alloys

Tin Gravel Ore can be found in rivers and shallow seas. Via an alloying mold it can be used to make bronze which is equivalent to Iron. Tin Gravel Ore also drops Flint more often then regular Gravel.

Bloomery

Smelting Iron in a normal furnace is no longer possible. Instead you will need a Bloomery and Bellows, as well as a kind of coal. Pump the bellows to get keep the Bloomery hot enough and Iron will accumulate in a Bloom. You will then need to place the Bloom in the world and work it with a pickaxe to obtain Iron. Larger blooms need to be worked more.

Man of Steel

The bloomery isnt very efficient so Steel is the next step. You need 2 things to make steel: Metallurgic Flux made from grinding calcareous rocks like Dripstone, Calcite, Limestone or Marble, and High Refractory Bricks for the furnace itself, which require Magma Cream. By this time you should upgrade your Bellows to mechanical ones too. The result will be Pig Iron, which can be smelted into steel in a Blast Furnace, or Iron in a regular furnace.

Steel tools have +50% durability +0.5 attack +1 speed +1 toughness but -50% enchantability.

Steel can also be used to craft a musket, which can one shot common enemies with decent accuracy but needs to be reloaded via the crafting grid.

Basalt & Marble

A popular pair or rocks since the days of Red Power, They used to be part of Quark but got removed for some reason just because vanilla had similarly named blocks. The devs were fine with someone reusing them so here they are. Basalt can be found in deep oceans and replaces nether basalt in geodes. Marble can be found in the deepslate layer like tuff.

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