![]() ![]() This step is more optional and individual dwarves could still make smaller furnaces. It also requires a big collective effort, which is perfect for dwarves.īonus the slag from making coke from coal can be used as fertilizer and dwarven agriculture needs all the help it can get. Blast furnaces are fiddly but in the exact way dwarves would love precisions mixing, close observation, and assessment of material quality. If anything they will start with a much better footing as mining is far more common for dwarves and the ability to extract the necessary rocks will be easier for them. You also need limestone flux and coal but again. I can almost imagine dwarves cutting the furnace out of solid rock so it will last forever. It could even be an accidental discovery, to keep fires going underground without suffocating they will have to know how to reliably move air around. The biggest issue needed for a blast furnace is a powerful bellows which would naturally progress from engineering focused dwarves trying to get hotter and hotter flames or just trying to get fresh air into a subterranean city. Blast furnaces were first invented in china in the first century, construction wise they are fairly simple. ![]() Why not go full out and have them use blast furnaces and the bessemer process? Assume that the dwarves have a fairly large workforce of willing blacksmiths, as well as the ability to use waterwheels or windmills where appropriate. Is there a better method I should be using? Some way that dwarves in this setting could avoid the labor-intensive working of iron into wrought iron? I'm aware of wootz/Damascus steel but I think it would be nice to have dwarves use the (more advanced?) crucible method to produce larger quantities than the medieval-level humans do in the same setting, is possible. Is direct reduction of the iron ore into "sponge iron" acceptable for use in this scenario, or would it need to be worked into wrought iron for use in this method? I guess sponge iron/a bloom of iron would contain too many impurities to use? I'm not sure exactly how the iron production, the key step to a smith, should go. Place the iron along with a flux in heated crucibles to produce steel.Produce some kind of iron - this is the part I'm unsure of.Produce fuel by turning coal into coke or wood into charcoal.Possibly need to grind this down and roast it.So far I have the process as something like: I think it's not too far-fetched to think that Huntsman's production of crucible steel in the 18th century could have been employed in a less technologically advanced society in the real world, if the knowledge was there. This is a very traditional Tolkein-esque fantasy world at a relatively "middle ages" level of technology (no gunpowder for example).ĭetailed production chains are a big focus so I'm trying to keep things somewhat realistic (Is "hard fantasy" a thing?) and trying to design how dwarves (masters of working with stone and metal) would produce steel in this setting. Add a cook for good meals, a clothing industry to replace worn out cothing, and you should do pretty well already.I'm designing a computer game in a fantasy setting with dwarves who need to produce steel. Making sure each dwarf(family) has their own, good, bedroom as well as a common dining hall(tavern combo) with legendary value goes a long way to staving off most unhappiness. I had 4 pieces of Electrum floor, engraved, add around 10k value to one of my guild halls, and its a much simpler process then making many good statues. ![]() ![]() Rather then make statues, what I've been doing recently is turning my fast excess of marble into marble blocks, using those to make floors/walls that have much greater value then your normal floors/walls(ones you simply mined out and smoothed over), then engraving it with the legendary engraver I got on the first migrant wave.Įven better though, if you aquire any native gold/alu/plat Blocks from traders, or smelt bars of such metals, is to use a few select pieces of floor made from those. That said, your marble/limestone etc does make them twice as valuable as regular stone as well, but you need those stones for steel industry as well. Any statue you make from silver/gold etc will be vastly more worth than those made from regular stone, and you can melt down bad metal statues while bad stone ones can only be ditched on a trader for little value. ![]()
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