Creating Alloys

This is a very basic, general practice guide for creating alloys in Medieval Blacksmith. This guide is written based on personal experience and does not necessarily reflect the 'perfect' method.

The Real Trick Is Patience

Have you been struggling to create high quality alloys? I know I certainly did! I am sure you suspected drastically differing melting points would be a drag. It is. Here is the trick. Put both ore types into the crucible BEFORE you heat them. You will dread seeing the lower melting ore quality drop, but just wait....there's more! Just as with adding a new ore to already melted ore (of the same type), once the higher melting point ore hits the correct temperature, the 'ore type' will change from the individual types to the alloy and revert to 100% quality! Boom! Now you too can make high quality alloy weapons!!

[Kiato]

Note this has changed from previous versions and the ores balance out now so you don't get 100% anymore. I found a way to solve this though it takes a little more time but here are the steps. "only needed for ores with large temp differences but works regardless"

1. melt the lower temperature ore in the furnace at the ratio needed in this case moraoka make a .3 bar of gold to make the alloy (bars heat up slower than ores do)
2. put the cila in the bucket and raise it to around 1000C - 1832F
3. remove bucket from furncace and put bar into heated bucket with cila
4. re-add to furnace bucket and wait for cila and bar to melt
5. Bam high quality alloy

Hope this helps anyone else having issues with this.

[Chewie]

This must have been patched out. It doesn't seem to work for me.

[Arch]

Note that this does work, but do not try it with any Alloy using Khanka with a Hot Smelting Bucket. This can cause the 2-3 other Ores to melt at different times, not all at once. this means the Khanka will mix with only 1 of the 2-3 other Ores, and create bad-quality Alloy before mixing with the other 1-2 remaining Ores. This creates an extremely bad quality Alloy.

You can drop your Bucket in the cooling water by the Anvil to reset it back to base temperature.

So, rule of thumb -
Cila, all-in, hot or cold Bucket. No problem.
Khanka - all-in with cold Bucket, and don't use hot Bucket unless you know how.

How? toss in the 2-3 same ores to melt first in a hot Bucket and add the 1 other Ore after.