Making Iron

Making Iron is a major milestone that will unlock the Iron Age and give you access to the Vanilla Furnace and Tinker's Construct.

Iron is obtained in a Bloomery which is a multiblock structure made with Bronze and Sandy Bricks. Let's see what you need for it and how you can make it.

• 1x Bloomery

• 7x Sandy Bricks

• 1x Sandy Brick Tuyere

• At least 1x Bellows

While, for the Sandy Bricks, you'll need to get into Construction Paste Processing, for the Bellows you'll have to get into Leather Working.

After you get the materials, you'll have to build the structure.

Building the Bloomery

1. Place down the Bloomery Block.

2. Add a Layer consisting of 1x Sandy Brick Tuyere and 3x Sandy Bricks.

3. Add a Layer consisting of 4x Sandy Bricks (these can also be 4x Sandy Brick Stairs).

4. Finally, add at least 1x Bellows (You can add 1x more).

Now, that you have the Bloomery, let's see how you can use it.

Making Iron

To obtain Iron, you'll need the following ingredients:

• 8x Iron Dust

• 8x Charcoal

• 1x Fire Starter

• 1x Pickaxe

Now let's see what you need to do with these. Here's a video tutorial:

As you can see in the video, after the fire was started, you need to pump the Bellows. This action must be performed for 4 MC Hours (around 3 minutes). A will NOT reduce the amount of time required, but it will ensure that you'll get Iron, and not just a Cold Bloom. If you DO eventually obtain a Cold Bloom, don't worry, as you'll be able to get Iron from it later, in a Furnace, but for now, the Bloom won't be of use to you.