Basics: How To Get Started

The biggest change with this mod is that you can't actually craft (e.g) an iron chestplate with boring, old iron ingots. You have to use FUNKY glowing ingots! These are gained by processing an normal metal ingots in an Heat Treating Oven and, of course, you can't craft with these in a wooden, shabby workbench, because it would go up in flames! In theory. So you need to reinforce it with iron. After doing that, you'll wind up with a Metalwork Station. The glowing ingots don't come without a risk though. Remember, they're hot. Very hot. So it might be a good idea to get some Blacksmith's Tongs made so you don't catch fire when handling red hot metal.

In the Metalwork Station you can now craft your metal armor again using glowing ingots (mostly the recipe shapes are the same). But if you were to craft an anvil or a minecart, you'd want to make some steel. Steel is the first and simplest alloy in Metalforge: 1 glowing iron ingot and 3 coal coke (which you get by purifying some coal inside a Mineral Purifier), combined in the Metalwork Station make 2 glowing steel ingots. Steel has a lot of uses. There is Steel Armor and Steel Tools, a Steel Scaling Hook, Steel Bows, Blast Resistant Wall and a Heavy World Anchor.

If you have ever noticed the three mysterious crystals that spawn in different biomes called 'beryl'? They are an important ingredient of many advanced alloys like Xyrenium, Toxicrite or Beryllium Bronze! Yes, Beryllium Bronze is the next alloy you're going to want to make. It's stronger than Steel and also has many uses: Beryllium Bronze Armor, Beryllium Bronze Tools, a Beryllium Bronze Scaling Hook, Beryllium Bronze Bows and the Beryllium Venomizer. But the 'beryl' itself isn't actually the ingredient. It's 'an ingredient of an ingredient' because before you can use the crystal for anything apart from decoration, you need to purify it inside a Mineral Purifier. You can craft Beryllium Bronze by combining 3 glowing copper ingots, 1 glowing cobalt ingot and 1 raw beryllium.

Now you can make Steel and Beryllium Bronze. But what are metals like silver, tungsten, titanium and so on for? No. After having mastered all of the basics, that means everything written on this page up to here, this mod splits up in three branches. Technology. Magic. Nature. Each one has their own 'unrealistic and weird' metals. Now it's the time to choose your way.