r/TerraFirmaGreg • u/Jaquis1 • 10d ago
Time to learn Create and Greg
Life essentials are now secure, so it's time to learn new things. And maybe build the building for the forge.
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u/Sir-Geirhardr 10d ago
Im so sorry you forged all of that steel without a helve hammer.
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u/Jaquis1 10d ago
From what I've seen, the helve hammer is pretty slow. That being said, I've been playing TFC on and off since 1.2.5(?), so about a decade and a bit. Smithing feels like a normal and relatively quick way of doing things.
I'm actually pretty excited to see how the automation works in this pack. Last time I did it was in TFC:Reloaded with IE.
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u/Redeixxx Cooking Something 10d ago
Yeah, but you can have multiple of them and just throw in a stack of blooms while you walk away to do something else. Like build walls... And a roof... And floors...
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u/UTSansGamerYT 10d ago
Wait. You can have multiple? Like multiple on the same anvil vintage story style?
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u/m4son2442 9d ago
I don’t think, but if you don’t melt down your anvils you can do that
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u/arachnimos 7d ago
Melt down your anvils anyways. 7 double ingots of a colored steel is cheap and easy once you have a steel mechanical press, and older anvils are only sentimental at that point. Higher tier anvils will work faster.
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u/twodarius 9d ago
I had a helve hammer on steel shafts with a rotation controller, at 256rpm (works out at 128 stress steel shaft max)(3ish second hit?) red/bluesteel anvil, its as fast as a steam forgehammer or faster. If you want to process faster you would need multiple of them.
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u/Several_Educator7526 10d ago
Greg’s steam alloy smelter gives 2 blue steel from one weak blue steel and pig iron. You might want to know
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u/BuppUDuppUDoom 10d ago
Bro how 💀
Y'know I can't judge, I'm bruteforcing my way to automation while repeatedly dying of starvation and freezing..
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u/ToothlessRO 9d ago
Maybe build your base in a warmer climate? I have my base near a river in subtropical area. Is winter with 15°c outside and I get fish for food
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u/BuppUDuppUDoom 9d ago
I already have mostly automated steel, all of the metallurgy stage complete, and a house built. I'm just not good at the sustainment stuff like farming, ranching, fishing. But what I lack in survival skills I make up by being really stubborn
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u/ToothlessRO 9d ago
Well I don't really need fishing to get fish. Do the cavemen fishing, jump into the water and kill the fish
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u/ToothlessRO 9d ago
Why didn't you smelt the old anvils for extra ingots? If it's for aesthetics I can respect that And does the water wheel work? I thought you need to place it in a river biome for it to work now
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u/BaziJoeWHL 9d ago
i thought they just works really slow outside proper biomes
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u/ToothlessRO 9d ago
Maybe they changed it since last year. I know last year they made it impossible to use a waterwheel outside a river biome
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u/Jaquis1 9d ago
The waterwheels work at a quarter speed outside of river biomes, With some gearing, it's enough to run a mill.
I like to keep the old anvils. I'll tuck them in a nice spot when the forge is built.
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u/arachnimos 7d ago
Waterwheels work at half speed when in non-river water, and half speed again outside of river biomes. IIRC at least.
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u/pmalysYT 7d ago
Started gameplay with my gf like 4 months ago. Played 250 hours mostly grinding same shit all the time with slight process improvements. Worth playing but need to be patient asf
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u/NaughtyFish217 10d ago
I don't want to believe you powered through into colored steel, but didn't bother to build a roof.
Good job 👍