Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30980630-20180711162404/@comment-34435400-20180714135035

Minecraftmage113 wrote: SCUDtroopa wrote: Minecraftmage113 wrote: So... I found the video and stuff fascinating... one problem. How exactly is it a "super steel"?

Reading theough the rest of the suggestion... It looks like an interesting idea. I would of course love to still have the forging aspect put in to a degree, but forging was suggested, endorsed, and not planned, so Ima say that's not happening yet, and would probably be useless to suggest.

A few things: It's referred to as a super-steel because it's almost pure steel, with extremely low slag content and high carbon content. It was able to bend almost double and return to true easily. um... so all you added to that is that it is supposedly more flexible, which I'm not sure why that matters. It might be a little more durable, but the blade would dull just as fast.
 * The steel is amazing as a blade, but finicky as a puck, implying that a thin shape is advantageous, making a mattock not too likely. It might still be a good idea though.
 * Stats for dagger/sword need to be nerfed when initially mentioned in the suggestion, not just a passing reference for the sword at the bottom. That is a great way to have people yelling at you about it constantly
 * Spears/Pikes, while not traditionally made of crucible steel, make sense. It is a flat, short blade which is essentially a short dagger on a long stick with no curvature. It should fit in quite well with the rest of the weaponry.

I would assume low slag = no soft spots and high carbon = harder, but... I am not a metallurgist, not even as a slight hobby, so I have no idea, Low slag doesn't really mean a better blade. I have made plenty of steels with very little slag content then forged them out into a sword. But the quench went wrong and it snapped, or in folding it out I created some internal fractures. There's a lot more to forging than just what you make your steel from.

If a steel is more flexible than average(or the blade) then you can bend you blade in the middle of fighting and still have it set true. So if you were to swing at a sword and the force bends your sword it sets back straight. Once again not always the case, if you fail at folding out a blade or quenching the blade then the sword is still structure-wise unsafe. And if it bends it may snap.

As for this 'super steel' his points are good. Crucible steel is in fact a great steel, should it beat a dwarven sword in strength? no.