Hot Iron: Expanded Forging
Crafting system in Minecraft is one of the core aspects of the game, but sometimes it can be a little bland: just arrange raw materials in a grid and you got yourself a fine tool or a weapon. This mod aims to expand on that, introducing new unique multi-step ways to create new way to shape materials into tools and armor by changing recipes of all tools from stone to diamond, recipes of iron and diamond armor, shears and shields. Hot Iron also adds a multiblock brick furnace - Kiln, with some special recipes more efficient than that of vanilla furnace with a cost of requiring constant attention. Most of Hot Iron's features and recipes can be toggled and edited by using the mod's config and datapacks
It is strongly avised to use Just Enough Items with this mod as it will help you prevent getting lost in mod's recipes and understand how and with what blocks new recipes are performed
Some of the new Items and Blocks
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- Bellows
Created from sticks and leather, bellows is an item that can turn normal fire into a High Fire that is suitable for heating up materials for forging. Note that High Fire will turn back to a normal fire after short time, so keep those bellows handy. You can blow on High Fire again to extend its life a bit.
- Smithing Tongs
Tongs are used to pick up hot iron ingots and tool heads without taking damage from heat. If you have at least one spare pair of tongs in your inventory and you pick up any of the mod's hot materials, the tongs will automatically pick up that item.
- Smithing Hammer
To forge any tool head from hot material you will need a Smithing Hammer. You will need to click with a hammer on a Smithing Anvil five times to finalize any of the new Forging recipes.
- Smithing Anvil
This is the core block of the mod, Smithing Anvil lets you perform Forging recipes by arranging ingredients in a grid similar to the one of a crafting table and then finalizing the recipe by clicking with a Smithing Hammer on the anvil several times.
Changes to stone tool recipes
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Besides changing the way you make iron, gold and diamond tools, Hot Iron also introduces a unique way to make stone tools. First, you will need to chip on some exposed stone with a Flint until the stone turns into cobblestone, dropping a single Rock.
After you gather some rocks, you will need to take those rocks both in your main and off-hand and knap them until you get a Knapped Rock.
Now you can combine knapped rocks to get stone tool heads which you then combine with a stick to get your Stone Tools!
