Talk:Dwarven Forge/@comment-26534830-20151207173441/@comment-25565811-20160127143426

1. Yes 2. You need to alloy the Dwarven steel ingots or the Blue Dwarven steel ingots first, to craft on the respective crafting tables. You can't craft there with just iron ingots.

But you can use iron ingots in the forge, to make the alloys. It's just a waste of fuel, to first smelt iron ore to ingots and then use them for alloying.

If you buy iron ingots from a trader or from another player on a server, or you get them out of an unsmeltery you can surely use them for alloying.