Talk:Game Updates/@comment-99.6.46.60-20120323175415

BFS has stupefied me by using metel/steel and earth to make iron/iron ore when the medivals knew perfectly well how to use iron ore to get iron in crucibles/smelters using the heat of wood fires. They noticed that they occasionally got some "iron" that was harder and more malleable, it was carbonized iron or steel. They eventually learned to make steel more reliably by forcing air into their wood fired smelters to carbonize the iron. It was a very laborious process that often failed and even when successful produced only small amounts of steel. They would have been as appalled as I am for steel to be turned back to iron/iron ore by using earth and some alchemical magic. Then there is the problem of obtaining rust/iron oxide without both water/moisture and air/oxygen. Ah well the game creators only have to be creative in fantasyland....forget the old science that produced the Iron Age. It is a good science and history lesson for the kids though.