Vintage Story Guide - 1.16 - Episode 51: Cementing Our Future with the Cementation Furnace!
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- In this episode, we finally start taking the last few steps toward a long-term goal: steel! There are still several steps to steelmaking, as well as a lot of time (and fire!), so while we won't have any of the shiny metal in our hands today, we make plenty of progress and build not one, but three cementation furnaces!
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Game Style: Survival, "Vanilla with Sprinkles" (lightly modded, primarily minor QoL adjustments)
World Seed: 1886904520 (Standard Survival Settings); note that this still may not create a 100% identical world.
Mod List:
Better Crates by Dauron
Campaign Cartographer by Apache
Carry Capacity by copygirl
Emote Menu by niciel
Extra Chests by Dauron
Farmland Drops Soil by copygirl
Simple HUD Clock by Rhonen
Volumetric Lighting by Miclo (continued by Novocain)
VS Prospector Info by P3t3rix
Workbench Expansion by Rhonen
XRowBoat by xeth
Upload Schedule: Mondays & Fridays, at "when they're finished processing" o'clock!
Game acquired by purchase.
Thumbnail logo created using existing Vintage Story assets and my amazing Photoshop skillz. 
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I can definitely feel a style of early industrial period England emerging here. Perfectly fits the technology level of late game VS, the colour palette available, and the biome. Can't wait to see the new industrial buildings that each extra technology piece will bring!
Yeah, the game very much lends itself to this kind of design, what with all the materials available! You can get a little crazier with some of the more exotic woods from the deep south, but they only offer a little extra variety (but they are still very cool!)
I have officially watched your whole series and this is my first comment.. You sir are one of the best builders I've seen in the medieval / Fantasy style you have given me a great love for this game. you are truly inspirational and you have earned a well deserved subscriber... I look forward to following your continued progress in this game and i cant wait to see the next episode! its a shame that you have so few subscribers. best wishes on growing your channel and i will be here through it all!
Thank you so much! I'm humbled by such a kind comment! I'm glad to share the series with you and am equally excited for the coming episodes! :)
@@Kurazarrh I'm glad that you are happy to share this lovely game with us and I hope this is a VERY long lasting series!
Wanted to let you know that I come back to this guide still, every time I need to build a furnace, because I can never remember how to do it:)
XD Yeah even though the game has an in-world guide, you have to know how to START the guide in the first place! @.@
@@Kurazarrh the building overlay is also very dark and hard to see.
My day is made when I see an episode come out from you. Not only are your builds fantastic, but your knowledge of the game is phenomenal. And listening to you talk is very calming. Thank you so much.
Aw, thank you! You are so kind! I'm glad I can brighten your day! :)
10:07 Roughly six seconds of COMEDY GOLD.
😂 I wish I could poison the drifters sometimes... Especially when they spawn in places I can't reach, like random caves nearby!
21 episodes after the iron age, we entered the steel age! that is sick! also recently none of your vids were recommended to me; i really hate the algorithm
Yeah even when I search for Vintage Story LPs to watch, the results don't always bring up the smaller channels! =/ Glad you found my channel, though! And let's hear it for the Steel Age! :)
one thing i would like to add is that the inspection whole kurazarrh added at the front you can also add at the back makes it so easy to check that its fully loaded!
You can do that, yeah. I just crouch real low and aim at the top of the block in the back. As long as it takes 32 coal to load, I know it's loaded properly!
Another day for another chilllll and inspiring episode ❤️
:D Glad you're looking forward to it!
That moon was looking ccrraazzyy lol
Was it that shot where it was real low in the sky? XD I've noticed it hanging there a couple times. Super spooky!
Probably a graphical glitch from the volumetric shading mod.
Your homestead reminds me of a Victorian style England XD love it. Curious to see what you come up with for the factory.
You're the second one to mention the Victorian style! I don't think I was consciously designing it like that, but Vintage Story definitely has a built-in design language, doesn't it? As for the factory, I think it will be neat! I've been mulling over a couple designs in my head!
AHhhh! Cliffhanger!!
DUN DUN DUNNNNN! :D How will it end???
This game is basically me retaking my chemistry lessons and all those things I learnt in school and putting them to use
Sometimes it feels that way! Vintage Story really does a great job of emulating a lot of real-world processes.
another day, another vintage story episode :)
And another day closer to spring (in game)! :D
never actually seen this part so it's going to be interesting to see.
Yeah, steelmaking is a whoooooole process! Once we get the steel back out of the furnaces, we're STILL not done! @.@
@@Kurazarrh so it's a couple of stages. That's cool. You have to convert it to iron then steel as well so it's all compounding.
Thank you for this fascinating video. I had no idea how this processes worked and now I do :)
I'm glad you liked it! Steelmaking in the game actually follows a low-tech, real-world process called the cementation process. If you look it up on Wikipedia, you might be surprised to learn just how closely Vintage Story follows the real process!
@@Kurazarrh cool I'll check it out. Thanks
Looking forward to seeing the the results of your experiment in fuel types.
I hope it comes in handy. Would be great to be able to chuck some anthracite under there once, walk away, and come back to some steel!
i do wish this game was on steam
Binged the whole series over the last two weeks. Fiending for that next episode lol. I can't play this game yet, but I'm living vicariously through you until I can. Excited to see what you can do with steel.
Your subscriber count is up over 200 peeps since I subscribed as well. Keep it going!!
@@skrepon13 The support for this channel and these videos has been amazing! I will! :)
Ahh, that's so nice of you to say! Maybe in the near-ish future you'll get the opportunity to try Vintage Story! I'd keep my fingers crossed for you, but that makes it really hard to play! ;P
@@Kurazarrh No worries. Take care of the family, then I can enjoy this game. It isn't anything more than I am willing to do, so I will just watch these videos. I'll have to rewatch some of them for sure when I do start though. There is so much to do!!
For some reason it has never occurred to me to access the fueling area under the cementation furnace from the front rather than the back. Clever. Also, a hard-earned lesson for those who have yet to advance to steel - when making and loading your first furnace, take care to only ever click on the FRONT coffin piece and not to accidentally interact with the back coffin piece… or your ghostly block-placing guide will become very confused and the process will become much more complicated.
I got the idea for front-side fueling from seeing someone else's design on the Vintage Story Discord server! I saw it and was like, "What have I been missing out on?"
If you click on the wrong part of the coffin, you should be able to click on it again to disable the overlay, and then click on the correct part of the coffin. I haven't tried that, so it's just speculation. Have you tried that as a solution?
@@Kurazarrh Yes, I did get there eventually… after a lot of confusion about why my cementation furnace that had been complete a moment before suddenly thought it had missing blocks! Seems like an easy mistake to make that the in-game handbook doesn’t warn you about, and I thought it was worth mentioning if it might save even one of your other viewers from that “I have no idea what I did wrong, why is the game doing this?” frustration.
@@talespinnergames8404 Ah, that's good to know. And thanks for pointing it out, that's a great catch!
And the saga continues!
hoping for a good roll on that redwood
Oh me, too. Me, too!!!
@@Kurazarrh been meaning to ask you for a while good sir, what's the character on your profile pic?
@@janosd4nuke Haha, I've been found out! So... My profile pic... isn't Kurazarrh. I know! I know, shame on me! XD It's a drawing of a character named Kaiyr. Both Kaiyr and Kurazarrh were D&D characters I created and played a looooooooooong time ago, but all the images of Kurazarrh I have don't look as good. So Kaiyr it is!
I should probably bust out my tablet sometime and whip up a new drawing of Kurazarrh. Assuming I haven't forgotten how to draw!
@@Kurazarrh So an OC it is, was right on that one. Always gave me Bleach vibes, given how the soul reaper's uniform is the same. But my fav anime does not have a monopoly on that color set LOL.
As of drawing, I should really get back to it. And since I had several short encores with the craft I can assure you, you can't forget it. Will be rusty on the first attempt, but you can speedrun the learning-curve in no time up to 95% of your top shape. Same as bicycle... one does not forget how to ride a bike. Tho admittedly the first 2 mins after a 10 year hiatus was hilariously awkward.
@@janosd4nuke Hah, yeah, Kaiyr was a character I whipped up for what I thought was going to be a short-lived campaign... that ended up lasting almost 2 years! I absolutely did rip his outfit from traditional Japanese garb since I'm a weeb like that. XD
I guess I'm not TOO afraid of getting back into art. I have pulled my tablet on a few occasions in the last couple years, and you're absolutely right in that you can quickly get back up that learning curve. And sometimes, I find that a long time away from any particular craft lets me come at it from a new angle and occasionally have interesting/surprising breakthroughs!
Do you mind if I turn this into a sort of #20Kuestions? I've kind of been waiting for someone to ask about my avatar! lol
The little window at the front of the furnaces was inspired. Looking forward to seeing how this build turns out - I had assumed you would build it as an extension of sorts to the blacksmith, but it looks like it'll be it's own thing!
Still, I wonder why they decided to make steel furnaces so large? From what I can gather, it's perfectly possible to produce steel in a bloomery irl? Just adding to the challenge I suppose?
They are modeled after real cementation furnaces that were built and used pretty much like this.
There are a variety of different ways to make steel, which yield different kinds of steel, take different times to process, different amounts of resource investment and so on. The VS team likely picked one intentionally that was markedly different from iron processing. Not just to prevent mistakes ("awww I forgot one detail and now all I got was iron"), but also to keep it varied and interesting, to teach the player something new, and to give them another reason to add another building to the base.
@@streetwind. Appreciate the insight! Yeah, I have no doubt the devs were trying to keep things interesting and partition steel off behind something that requires an extra level of sophistication. But still, it's clear this style of furnace is taking a significant step towards industrialization and mass production - which is certainly something I'd love to see more of in VS! Just seems like a relatively large step forward technologically for a guy who still has to fire his clay in a hole in the ground. :p
Thanks! When I realized I was being a dummy, I had to make the window just a little snazzy!
As for making steel... technically speaking, fueling a bloomery with coal/charcoal would technically make some very low-grade steel. Probably barely above iron. My (amateur, academic) understanding is that a lot of steel produced prior to the 17th century was done by means of working the iron in a forge, sometimes purposely adding charcoal dust. The cementation furnace is an actual process for mass-producing steel that was first put into use around 1720, and it actually produces blister steel ingots. The Wikipedia article on the cementation process has everything--and Vintage Story follows it very closely!
Cementation furnaces can share side and rear walls
Do they actually function this way? What happens when one furnace finishes first and breaks some of the blocks in the adjoining walls?
@@Kurazarrh It works! If a block breaks, the other furnace pauses processing until you fix it. And if you have them pretty much synced up that shouldn't matter too much. You'll only waste a couple pieces of coal. And especially with tier 3 bricks it should happen very rarely.
@@Gorfinhofin Ah see that's what I want to avoid. I often light them up and then ignore them until I notice their fuel has run out!
this is my first time seeing this game and at first i thought it was minecraft lol
An easy mistake to make! It's certainly similar to Minecraft in some ways... But also quite different, with a unique pace or cadence to it!
Can you make a drifter trap with a coal pit 🤔
While you technically CAN do that, it's not very good at all. Fire damage, no matter the source, is quite weak, and outside of a cementation furnace, coal piles actually burn pretty quickly. If you really want to do a fire-based drifter killing chamber, you're much better off just using fire pits.
#20kuestions Dunno if it was answered already since I'm still catching up, but what is your favorite song on the Vintage Story soundtrack?
Mine is Heartbeat, followed by Daylight, and then Winter which reminds me of classic Minecraft. (Incidentally, the song Roots reminds me of modern Minecraft.)
:D Thanks for your question submission! It's been added to the list!
I'm curious, can you chisel leaf blocks?
No, you can only chisel "cubic" blocks, i.e., blocks that are only cubes (or their derivatives, like slabs/stairs). Any blocks with other shapes associated with them, or that have any interactive functions, cannot be chiseled.
I would, however, settle for being able to obtain and place leaf blocks... >.>
@@Kurazarrh thanks! 👍
Are you roleplaying the pollution or did you install a mod that simulates pollution?
Just role-playing. There is a mod that adds "gases" but not like, global pollution. The full modlist is in the description, too.
@@Kurazarrh I'm fixing to buy the game, I hate C# but I can probably figure something out with the api for that and make it plug into the weather system or something
@@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789 Ha, that's pretty cool, and I'm sure some people in the community would love that. You should try the game out if it appeals to you!
@@Kurazarrh I was a huge fan of TFC for Minecraft but I lost my account in the migration (it literally overwrote the xbox handle after creation with a new one without the key...) so with the recent events in relation to MC I am definitely doing that!
@@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789 Ah, that's rough. And yeah, that other block game has stirred up quite the hornet's nest recently... @.@
What's that black stuff
... Coal?
this is minecraft right?
Name of the game is in the video title!
minecraft?
Vintage Story.
@@Kurazarrh hmm...
Lego?
@@brotherlui5956 Megablox, obviously!
@@Kurazarrh Terraria Calamity mod