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

Crucible steel, as it is now called, was developed in Sri Lanka, and used widely throughout Central Asia and the Middle East. It was made by adding wrought iron and pure iron together in a crucible, along with carbon, to be remelted into a puck of steel. The sealed clay crucible was then placed into a furnace, and heated up until the iron melted. It was then allowed to cool slowly. The resulting material was finnicky as an ingot, but once perfected into a blade, was commonly referred to as a "super-steel." Some of the most famous instances of crucible steel are manifested in the +ULFBERH+T viking swords (see here )

tl;dr: Muslims made Mithril.

Okay, so it obviously can't be mithril. However, I feel it might add some personality to the Harad faction.

Basically, to make Crucible Steel, one would need to craft a remelter. This would be made by surrounding an Alloy Forge with bricks on a Haradric Crafting Table. The Remelter's GUI would be similar to the Alloy forge, except that it would have 4 vertical slots to be filled. Those would be filled in a specific order, with Charcoal Dust in the top and bottom slots, Iron Ore in the bottom middle slot, and Iron Ingots in the upper middle slot. (I know I did a terrible Photoshop job, please bear with me here). If the slots are not properly filled, the Remelter will simply refuse to start. If filled correctly, the Remelter will begin to remelt the iron into Crucible Steel, but there's a catch here: It has 1/16 the efficiency of a normal furnace! This means that it will take 2 pieces of coal/charcoal to fuel just one ingot. Also, despite having the input of two iron ingots, it will produce only one crucible steel puck. The Remelter can also be found in Harad Blacksmith stands, but requires no special alignment to use (similar to the other forges and the Kebab Stand).

However, it's not all bad. The Remelter can produce up to 32 Crucible Steel Pucks at once (using only Coal as fuel, that is), enough to make quite a bit of equipment. But there's a catch here as well. Crucible Steel weapons can be manufactured on two crafting tables: Haradric and Dalish (to represent the existence of Crucible Steel in both Islamic and Viking weaponry). The base damage is 9.0 for the sword, and 6.0 for the dagger (same as Mithril), but the chance of getting a negative modifier is double, and the chance of getting a positive modifier (i.e. Legendary, Swift, Long, Hulking) is halved. This is to represent the extreme difficulty of working with Crucible Steel. Dalish/Haradric smiths can also reforge the material, with a normal chance of getting good modifiers, but at the elevated cost of 100 coins per reforge. This makes it a bit more difficult to achieve the fabled Legendary, Long, Swift sword that we all want.

In addition to all this, the base durability is 950, and all other stats are the same as any other sword. Picks, Spears, Hammers, etc. cannot be crafted of Crucible Steel, nor can armors.

Essentially, this adds a slightly easier way for Harad-aligned players to obtain Mithril-tier weapons, and an interesting, fun way to make them.

 