Metalworking Guide

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Casting Age (Copper & Bronzes)

Gathering Ore

There are currently two stone-age methods of gathering ore, running around and looking for them as items on the surface, or by using a Gold Pan.

To make a single metal tool head you will need to collect 10 pieces of small, copper-bearing ore: Template:InfoTable/CopperOre

If you wish to make Template:Font color¹ tools, you can follow the alloy recipe and replace some of the copper ores with the following:

Template:GridImage Bismuthinite

Template:GridImage Cassiterite

Template:GridImage Sphalerite

Template:GridImage Native Gold

Template:GridImage Native Silver

¹ Note: Only metals that have the word bronze in their name are considered bronze. Other metals made out of the above ores that do not have bronze in their name, such as Brass, Rose Gold, and Sterling Silver are not bronzes or copper, and therefore cannot be made into tools.

Smelting

Note: The Vessel can only smelt ores. If you have turned your metals into ingots, you will need to heat them in a forge to liquefy them, or use a Crucible if you plan on making alloys.

File:VesselOresForBronze.png

Filling a Vessels with Ores for Bronze

File:VesselMoltenBronze.png

A Vessel Containing Molten Bronze

Copper

A Ceramic Vessel can be used to smelt Native Copper, Malachite and Tetrahedrite ore into pure molten copper metal. To do this, fill the vessel with ore (stacks of different ores may be placed together in the same vessel) and then fire it in a kiln.

After the firing, retrieve the vessel from the kiln and right-click it to open up its GUI. You will see that now instead of the usual four slots the vessel has only one and contains text describing the amount of metal it contains. This metal will remain liquid for about 10 Minecraft hours, starting after the firing completes. If the metal inside solidifies, the GUI will not open and you must fire it in a pit kiln again to re-melt it. Note: Vessels with molten metal inside will have a white, "Liquid" tooltip on them.

Bronzes

A Ceramic Vessel can also be used to create Bronze, Black Bronze and Bismuth Bronze.

Before Firing: Place the necessary ores into a Ceramic Vessel, in the proper proportions for the desired type of bronze. For example, if you wanted to create normal Bronze then you would put copper ore (any combination of Native Copper, Malachite or Tetrahedrite) and Cassiterite into the vessel. For each alloy there is a range of proportions which will produce the desired alloy so you don't have to hit an exact percentage, just be within the range.

After Firing: If you got the proportions right then when you right-click the vessel it will open up the same single-slot GUI as described above for smelting pure ores. You can then transfer the molten bronze metal to a Ceramic Mold in the same way. If you got the proportions wrong then when you right-click the vessel you'll get the four-slot storage GUI showing the raw ores still sitting in the vessel, unchanged.

Casting

Ceramic tool and weapon molds can be filled directly from the vessel, or from a liquid unshaped ingot.

All the recipes for tool and weapon molds can be found at the Clay Tool Molds page. File:Grid Ceramic Mold Pick.png

Vessel

Place an empty or partially filled Ceramic Tool, Weapon, or Ingot Mold into the slot to fill it with metal from the vessel. It takes 100 units of metal to completely fill an empty Ceramic Mold. The text in the vessel's GUI will be updated to show the amount of metal remaining in the vessel.

Unshaped Ingot

If the copper or bronze has already been turned into an ingot, simply heat it in a forge with an empty ingot mold in the appropriate slot to melt it. While the full, unshaped metal is at liquid temperature, right click with it in your hand to open the casting GUI. You will see an arrow with one slot to its left and two to its right. The leftmost slot will contain the filled mold. Place a single empty tool or weapon mold into the first slot on the right to begin the transfer. Once the transfer is complete the tool mold will move into the output slot and will show itself filled with metal.

Retrieve the filled tool mold and the now-empty Ceramic Mold from the slots on the left. There is a chance that the Ceramic Ingot Mold will be broken and lost during this process.

Once the mold is full, place it into your crafting area and retrieve the finished tool or weapon head from the output. The mold will be destroyed in the process.

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Anvils

In order to progress out of the Casting Age, you will first need to work your way up to a Tier 2 Anvil.

Stone

By using a hammer on the top of a raw Igneous stone block that is in its natural spawning layer, you will open the anvil GUI, where you can weld Copper Ingots into Double Ingots.

Igneous Stone
Igneous Intrusive	File:Grid Diorite.png Diorite	File:Grid Gabbro.png Gabbro	File:Grid Granite.png Granite
Igneous Extrusive	File:Grid Andesite.png Andesite	File:Grid Basalt.png Basalt	File:Grid Dacite.png Dacite	File:Grid Rhyolite.png Rhyolite

Copper

After you have obtained seven Copper Double Ingots, craft them into a Copper Anvil, where you can weld Bronze Ingots into Double Ingots.

[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]	File:Grid layout Arrow (small).png	[[File:Anvil (Copper).png	32px]]
[[File:.png	32px]]	[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:.png	32px]]
[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Copper Double Ingot.png	32px]]

Bronze

After you have obtained seven Bronze Double Ingots or seven Bismuth Bronze Double Ingots, craft them into an Anvil, where you can work Bronze Double Ingots into Sheets and weld Sheets into Double Sheets.

[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]	File:Grid layout Arrow (small).png	[[File:Anvil (Bronze).png	32px]]
[[File:.png	32px]]	[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:.png	32px]]
[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]	[[File:Bronze Double Ingot.png	32px]]

Iron Age

Gathering Ore

By now you should have a Pickaxe and a Prospector's Pick to use for finding and mining ore.

Smelting

Wrought Iron

Wrought Iron is obtained by working an Iron Bloom that has been created in a Bloomery.

Pig Iron

Pig Iron is obtained by smelting the Iron Ore in a Blast Furnace.

Steel

Input	Work Type	Output
File:Grid Pig Iron Ingot.png Pig Iron Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid High Carbon Steel Ingot.png High Carbon Steel Ingot
File:Grid High Carbon Steel Ingot.png High Carbon Steel Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid Steel Ingot.png Steel Ingot
Black Steel starts from the alloy recipe melted in a crucible. It will show as Weak Steel in the crucible.
File:Grid Black Steel Ingot.png Weak Steel Ingot File:Grid Pig Iron Ingot.png Pig Iron Ingot	Weld	File:Grid Black Steel Ingot.png High Carbon Black Steel Ingot
File:Grid Black Steel Ingot.png High Carbon Black Steel Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid Black Steel Ingot.png Black Steel Ingot
Blue/Red Steel start from the alloy recipe melted in a crucible. It will show as Weak Blue/Red Steel in the crucible.
File:Grid Red Steel Ingot.png Weak Red Steel Ingot File:Grid Black Steel Ingot.png Black Steel Ingot	Weld	File:Grid Red Steel Ingot.png High Carbon Red Steel Ingot
File:Grid Blue Steel Ingot.png High Carbon Blue Steel Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid Blue Steel Ingot.png Blue Steel Ingot

Smithing

See Anvil page for the guidelines of smithing metal.

Input	Work Type	Output
File:Grid Copper Ingot.png Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid Axe Head (Copper).pngAxe Head File:Grid Chisel Head (Copper).pngChisel Head File:Grid Hammer Head (Copper).pngHammer Head File:Grid Hoe Head (Copper).pngHoe Head File:Grid Javelin Head (Copper).pngJavelin Head File:Grid Knife Blade (Copper).pngKnife Blade File:Grid Pick Head (Copper).pngPickaxe Head File:Grid ProPick Head (Copper).pngProspector's Pick Head File:Grid Saw Blade (Copper).pngSaw Blade File:Grid Shovel Head (Copper).pngShovel Head File:Grid Scythe Blade (Copper).pngScythe Blade
File:Grid Gold Ingot.png 2 Ingots + Flux	Weld	File:Grid Gold Double Ingot.png Double Ingot
File:Grid Bismuth Bronze Double Ingot.png Double Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid Mace Head (Bismuth Bronze).pngMace Head File:Grid Sword Blade (Bismuth Bronze).png Sword Blade
File:Grid Blue Steel Double Ingot.png Double Ingot	Hammer	File:Grid Blue Steel Sheet.png Sheet
File:Grid Black Bronze Sheet.png Sheet	Armor Process¹	File:Grid Black Bronze Helmet.png Helmet File:Grid Black Bronze Boots.png Boots
File:Grid Red Steel Sheet.png Sheet	Hammer²	File:Grid Red Steel Bucket.png Red Steel Bucket File:Grid Blue Steel Bucket.png Blue Steel Bucket
File:Grid Silver Sheet.png 2 Sheets + Flux	Weld	File:Grid Silver Sheet 2x.png Double Sheet
File:Grid Black Bronze Sheet 2x.png Double Sheet	Armor Process¹	File:Grid Black Bronze Chestplate.png Chestplate File:Grid Black Bronze Greaves.png Greaves
File:Grid Steel Sheet 2x.png Double Sheet	Hammer	File:Grid Steel Tuyere.png Tuyere

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