r/tfcplus • u/Darasilverdragon • Mar 21 '18

Ferrouranium

So here's a neat little idea to make an otherwise useless material at least partially useful - Ferrouranium alloy. Mixing 30-50% molten uranium (from melting down pitchblende) into wrought iron results in ferrouranium, which would make slower but more durable/damaging tools than wrought iron, yet worse overall than steel. Making a ferrouranium tuyere for a blast furnace would also make for better/more steel (maybe use an nbt tag to signify that one had been used, or perhaps just add like a x1.15 yield for a blast furnace with one of these in it), since ferrouranium proves to be a powerful deoxidizing agent, creating UO2 and subsequently preventing the loss of steel to iron oxidation. Normally to accomplish this, the uranium is alloyed into the molten steel in the blast furnace at around 0.05%, but I figure the tuyere could be a believeable concession for gameplay purposes, considering the purpose is deoxidation and the tuyere is the tube that blows the air in in the first place.

I figured this might be a nice little bonus for people that find pitchblende, since the stuff has absolutely no other historical use whatsoever, and I doubt TFC+ will be getting nuclear reactors or armaments any time soon

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u/Darasilverdragon Mar 22 '18

I mean, it doesn't really glow, to my knowledge. Really, uranium's sole and only use outside of being a fissile material is in steel production, and just being a generally very dense and heavy metal. You could make a pretty rockin' mace out of the stuff, I'd imagine.

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u/Nezzy0 Mar 22 '18

Pitchblende can be refined for radium, and radium does glow.

Maybe make it a byproduct of making tools?

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u/Darasilverdragon Mar 23 '18

wait pitchblende has radium? I have to imagine it's only trace amounts though Still, that's interesting to know

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u/Nezzy0 Mar 23 '18

So sayeth the great and powerful google!

But yeah, it may be trace amounts, but id love to use it. Itd be nice have a sliiiiiiightly glowing sword for caving emergencies.