Charcoal Pit 4

This mod restructures the metallurgical progress of the game as well as the way charcoal is made. It also adds some crops.

Time to mine

Stone Tools have been replaced with Flint, which can be found in rivers or caves.
Copper Tools are also available and have marginally better stats than Flint. As for Wood Tools, only the shovel and hoe can be crafted, but a Bone Pickaxe can serve as an equivalent in a pinch. A Wood Club and Flint Javelins complete the primitive tool set.

Charcoal Pits and Coke Ovens

By placing either Log Piles in the world, completely covering them with solid non-flammable blocks and lighting them on fire, Charcoal can be made. A working Pit will emit smoke particles from the top. After about a day it will finish and the products can be dug out.

Since Iron is only available later in the progression, Flint and Steel can be made with raw iron for 6 uses, while making it out of real steel gives the full 375 uses.

Coke Ovens can be crafted with High Refractory Bricks and are a 2x2x2 multiblock. In addition to Coal Coke, it can turn a variety of blocks into Charcoal and will collect Creosote Oil. Creosote can be used as fuel and it hurts insects like spiders.

Alloys

Tin can be found in large lodes in Mountains, Rivers and shallow Seas. Rivers also contain small patches of standalone Tin Gravel. Via an alloying mold it can be used to make bronze which is equivalent to Iron.

Bloomery

Smelting Iron in a normal furnace is no longer possible. Instead you will need a Bloomery and Bellows, as well as a kind of coal. Pump the bellows to get keep the Bloomery hot enough and Iron will accumulate in a Bloom. You will then need to place the Bloom in the world and work it with a pickaxe to obtain Iron.

Man of Steel

The bloomery isnt very efficient so Steel is the next step. You need 2 things to make steel: Metallurgic Flux made from grinding calcareous rocks like Dripstone, Calcite, Limestone or Marble, and High Refractory Bricks for the furnace itself, which require Magma Cream. By this time you should upgrade your Bellows to mechanical ones too.

Steel tools have +50% durability +0.5 attack +1 speed +1 toughness but -50% enchantability.

Steel can also be used to craft a musket, which can one shot common enemies with decent accuracy but needs to be reloaded via the crafting grid.

Basalt & Marble

A popular pair or rocks since the days of Red Power, They used to be part of Quark but got removed for some reason just because vanilla had similarly named blocks. The devs were fine with someone reusing them so here they are. Basalt can be found in deep oceans and replaces nether basalt in geodes. Marble can be found in the deepslate layer like tuff.

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Ceramic Pots

Ceramic pots are portable 9 slot inventories that can be placed as blocks or filled in the inventory like bundles. They can be dyed any of the 16 colors.

Fruit Trees

Saplings for various fruit trees can be found in structures. In addition there are Douglas Fir trees that naturally spawn only in Windswept Forests. Of note is Jaded Amaranth, an ancient tree found by the Sniffer. It can be use to brew potions that grant absorption and health boost.

Alchemy Kit

The Distillery and Steam Press, together with the Barrel can be used to brew and press various items, enabling production of Alcohol, Potato Fries or BioDiesel. Alcohol can give a set of random effects, but dont drink too much at once. Warranty void if drinking everclear. The Barrel can also be used on an infinite water source to fill and it can transfer fluids in the inventory like the bundle.

Fuels

The Jerry Can can be used to fuel solid fueled machines with liquid fuels. It holds 4 buckets and drains in 100mB increments, being less wasteful than bucketing fluids directly.

Animal Tools

The nesting box acts as a place for chickens to lay their eggs. It has an area of 9x9 and the chickens must be able to reach the box to lay in it. Free range chickens are more lag friendly than ones crammed in 1 block above a hopper like classic chicken cookers.

The feeding through can feed nearby animals so they can breed without player input, but is less efficient than feeding by hand. Animals must be able to reach it to eat from it and there cant be more than 16 animals in its 9x9 area, per feed type.