Rename Refined Iron to Steel and change recipe + cement

    It's a little confusing to have 'Refined Iron' when it would be simpler to call it 'Steel' since that is what refined iron actually is.


    A suggested simple adjustment to the process to make it that small bit more realistic (and more complex) for all us OCD types would be this:
    Smelting 'Coal dust' = 'Coke' (purified Coal with double or more EU output when burned)
    Combine 02 x 'Iron ingots' (simulating molten iron) with 01 x 'Coke' = 02 x 'Steel chunks' (include 'Limestone' along with 'Coke' here as well to make it perfect)
    Smelting 'Steel chunk' = 'Steel ingot' (basically renamed with no need to change block ID or image)


    You could also have 'steel' equipment with higher durability then Bronze.


    Maybe if you do find a way to include 'Limestone' as a new block that is common as 'Gravel', crushed/maceratored to 'Limestone dust' it can be used in the 'Steel' recipe as mentioned above with 'Coke'
    Another part it could be used is to combine with 'Sand' and 'Gravel' to make 'Cement powder'. Combine 'Cement powder' with a 'Bucket of water' to make 'Cement blocks' (smooth whitish blocks) and then used much the same as 'Stone' for building/construction and vanilla recipes. When broken (by pickaxe) it turns back into 'Cement powder'.


    PS love your work, makes a whole new world of MC coupled with Buildcraft and RP plus submods. Full complex industries ftw! :thumbup:

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    please make note that steel suggestions have been denied before (see http://forum.industrial-craft.…?page=Thread&threadID=221)
    so if this goes no where despite 5 pages of +1's now you know why


    as for how i feel about this here are my thoughts
    1. railcraft and terrafirmacraft already have this functionality you should check them out before suggesting the devs reinvent the wheel
    2. ic2 != terrafimacraft and that shouldn't change
    3. refined iron/steel is ic2 most used and valuable resource so tweaking it like this would nerf anything that uses it (i don't like most nerfs)
    4. alblaka doesn't like to add new ores that don't have many different uses and i can see why. caves would be rainbow colored with ores and vanilla blocks would become rare.
    5. we already have steel/refined iron tools they are basically all the tools that run off electricity
    6. we already have cement its called construction foam
    7. minecraft (and video games in general) is not exactly what I would call "OCD friendly"

    true balance is impossible in video games the best one can hope for is to make it really hard to guess which of 2 choices are better.
    and remember kids "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF JOKES!"