I'm blessed. Thank you for finding an alternative.

since I've found a replacement I forgive you

coal expanded has a generic patch that allows coal being used everywhere

i see

@pointemorte: Not thinking passive coolers are going to use coal. Not thinking a wood fired heater in a mod I don't use (Furniture Expanded Pack) is going to receive a patch. I don't run vanilla medieval. Stew pots, or any of the rest of what you mention.

This mod never patched for anything you're mentioning in the first place.

Look at the file: patch.owlchemist.simplechains.steel.xml. Have at it and patch yourself silly.

passive coolers are ok if you use dubs hygiene which changes requirement from wood to water

wood-fired heater ([FM] furniture expanded pack) doesn't work as well

darklight + norma hearths (vanilla medieval) don't work too, same thing with passive coolers

Stew pot (vanilla expanded), fireplace (rebuild), wall-mounted fireplace (rebuild), darktorches, firepits normal and dark (vanilla expanded), chandelier (owl's simple utilities) don't work

@pointemorte Fixed. Damned annoying problem. v1.6 Rimworld moved the consumable to the abstract torchbase out of torchlamp. GAH! Also added in wall torch refuel-able with coal now too. Which bug you did NOT catch! So, nah!

(ask for wood when empty)

Coal patches don't work. Checked with base game + dlc + harmony + this mod. Torches etc ask for wood instead of coal

A rare mistake made by Owley (Who I miss!): Bulk traders should now stock/buy/sell Iron.

@Ghost. No. it doesn't. Just tested it with only this mod. Iron. Just tested it with my 200 other mods i normally use. Iron. You have a compatibility problem. Figure it out.

Yeah but it doesn't affect anything even when it's disabled. Iron ore generated in cliffs still drops steel only with this mod enabled.

So, you have a quarry mod going...?

For some reason, iron ore veins spawn as normal, iron can be mined up out of a Quarry, and I can select coal and Iron Ore to mine.

But Iron Ore drops stacks of steel instead. No clue why. No error, no nothing.

Fixed Coal: Vein mineable.
Fixed Iron: Now is airtight- in case you ever build a ship with... iron...

Steel: did you dig up the deep found steel? Was it actually steel? Still looking for how this happens.

Could you update Coal so that you can select "Mine Vein" so the entire vein can be mined like all other metals. (This was a feature that became part of the base game after Simple Chains was created. Someone had a fixed version at some point, but I think it's no longer being updated.)

Also, Steel still shows up as a target for mining with the long range scanner, would be great if it could be removed from the list with this mod.

Oh hey didn't think of that, Vanilla texture expanded works it all right.

Thanks, that actually did work, I had just forgotten to restart the game after making the switch.

Place that mod after this one. Should do that.

Could you update the mod so that if we have vanilla textures expanded, it uses the steel texture from that mod? (looks like a stack of 3 steel bars).

I loved this mod, but this steel texture is terrible, they look like blue gems or something.

I have not updated this for v1.6 yet, as I'm waiting to see how new ores all work. THis mod replaces steel in the land with iron/coal... and I've not tested that yet.

As to the new graphic. IDK.

So I tried the mod in 1.6 unstable beta, the sprite for the Steel looks different. Its blueish metal kind of thing that i think i saw it on the new DLC Odyssey preview images.

Also, as a less light-weight alternative there's Expanded Materials: Metals https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3333419387

The new steel texture looks out of place

Doesn's original Owl's mod still work? https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/workshop/filedetails/?id=1702668415

After some more reasearch on production times of a LOT of other things, further lowered to 600. Update coming very soon.

thanks for that

H. Now that you mention it, I can see the point in that. Since 400 is the worktime in Vanilla to get metal from slag, seems reasonable to make the process in this mod (actually Making STEEL from coal/iron) about 800, since it's a more complicated task. Right now it's 1015 in the mod. I'll lower it to 800.

You got about a 20% discount.

Of course change it at your will if you like. But I do agree, it's a bit steep now.

Give it a few minutes to update.

would it be possible to add a setting to change how much work it takes to refine steel? I like this mod and want to keep using it but the massive amount of time my crafters are spending just refining steel is killing my production

sorry just saw the question. how low? as in without practically any research- the bloomery.

how low? smelting research?

That is not change in this mod at all. Some tools to make steel are in the mod, however- but added at lower tech levels than vanilla.

is steel locked behind research in this mod?

@FailPail Aye. That patch reads very clean. if you load it and it in any way fails, you should get red text bugs. he didn't force succeed it into silence.

@FailPail Aye.

but does it work in 1.5?

That patch is for Vanilla Outposts Expanded to support coal and iron resources in those outposts, right?

I'd feel a little dirty just stealing that modder's patch and including it into this, especially as it already exists and does its job. Looking at his code there's no new way I'd do it other than copy/paste it into this mod, so that's not cool.

All three work together just fine, so far as I can see. His patch doesn't require this mod to exist, it simply adds outpost mining if it detects "Owl_Iron" "Coal" or "WDCoal" which it will with my port of Owlie's mod- since I didn't change defs.

does this mod include this fix? https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2808810451

I just wish Owl would come back. Hasn't been on steam at all for months...

Thanks for this update. Love Owl's mods. Most of em are indispensible to me.

Once I switched to this version, steel started to look like blue candies. Any chance to allow us to use old textures? They are much more vanilla-friendly

Appreciate this

Good job！

THANK YOU