Steel lump

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Steel lump

Creation
Activate iron lump (1.00kg) Right-click Glowing hot charcoal (0.5kg) Open submenu "Create > Miscellaneous"
Result
0.40kg Steel lump
Skill and improvement
Uses metallurgy Cannot be improved
Properties
Can be combined when glowing hot.

Description

A heavy lump of dark steel.

Creation

1. Heat 1kg of iron lump and .5kg of charcoal till glowing hot
2. Activate iron lump
3. Right-click piece of charcoal
4. Select Create -> Lump

Tools Required

• A campfire, preferably a forge.

Notes

• A success will result in 0.4kg of steel per 1.0kg of iron and 0.5kg of coal.

* Using larger pieces of iron and coal will result in larger pieces of steel. It will use as much material as possible in the 1.0kg iron to 0.5kg coal ratio. You may get less high QL pieces but the average QL will be similar to creating small steel pieces. - This is no longer true.

• A failed attempt decreases both the charcoal and the iron lumps weight by .04kg.
• The quality of the charcoal affects the success chance as well as the likelihood the lump will be high quality. It would be wise to not risk wasting high quality iron on poor charcoal unless you have a lot of it.
• The quality of the iron lump caps the quality of the steel lump.
• Only the charcoal needs to be glowing hot.
• As of this patch, steel items now take reduced damage on use. Steel pickaxes take 20% less damage from use than similar quality iron pickaxes. Tested 7/11/2012 on Celebration server using QL 1 steel and iron pickaxes. The iron pickaxe took 0.15 damage every 5 seconds while the steel pickaxe took 0.12 damage. Thus 0.12/0.15 = .80 for a 20% damage reduction.
• Enchantments on tools made of steel will decrease slower as it is connected to the damage taken by the tool. (Steel tools take less damage than iron tools)

Usage

See List of steel products.

Small anvil:

• Ball
• Carving knife blade
• Hatchet head
• Hooks
• Hunting Arrow Head
• Leather knife blade
• Pickaxe Head
• Rivet
• Short sword blade
• Small Axe Head
• Spear tip
• Steel sheet
• War Arrow Head
• Wires

Large anvil:

• Armour Chains
• Axe head
• Basinet helm
• Bowl
• Dredge scraping lip
• Great helm
• Horse shoe
• Huge Axe Head
• Huge halberd head
• Huge Sword Blade
• Large Maul Head
• Large shield
• Long Sword Blade
• Maul Head
• Mouth bit
• Open helm
• Plate Leggings
• Plate sabaton
• Plate Vambrace
• Scythe Blade
• Shield
• Shovel Blade
• Small Maul Head
• Small shield
• Spring
• Staff

Reference

• Steel