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Quicklime In Bloomery

DBy Deve

Replicates early lime kiln functionality to make quicklime using a bloomery and crushed lime.

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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_kiln">According to Dr. Wikipedia</a>, early lime kilns burned layered charges of crushed limestone and coal in large pits. I didn't want to make a new multiblock structure but a bloomery is close enough, even if it is a bit smaller. The only problem is it's not possible to smelt lime in a bloomery because the smelting temperature of 825&deg;C is below the 1000&deg;C minimum temperature of the bloomery. I wasn't a fan of just changing the smelting temperate of lime and the wiki article went on to describe that crushed lime stones, not powder, were preferred for air flow through the charge. Crushed lime actually already exists in Vintage Story, there just isn't a way to craft it so this mod patches in the ability to process limestone, chalk or marble into crushed lime and then to smelt it in a bloomery.</p> <p>You can either use a hammer to smash the stones in your crafting grid (just like metal nuggets) or you can automate that process with a pulverizer. The resulting crushed lime product can be smelted in a bloomery--24 crushed lime smelts down to 12 quicklime using 6 charcoal or coal. That's more fuel efficient than the wiki article would suggest but it's a similar raw product to fuel ratio used for smelting calcined flint in a bloomery and that felt right to me. To put it in perspective, 4 full bloomeries will produce 48 quicklime which makes 192 mortar (using the new 1.22.2 recipe) which when combined with 3,072 bricks (!!!) will make 384 brick blocks (that's 6 full stacks of 64). It's not industrial scale but it's easier than micromanaging a bunch of fire pits.</p>

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