Day 483:<\/p>\n
So melting the iron, once I got a strong enough forge built out of rock, was not really a problem. Takes a lot of wood, throws a lot of probably-caustic fumes, smells horrible, glad it’s not in my cavern, but workable.<\/p>\n
The sandy clay not so much. The sand and clay both kind of.. well, \u00a0not melted, but the clay made sort of a ceramic and the sand didn’t melt, it just sort of… stuck… to stuff, so my iron rails are more like iron-filled-with-air-bubbles-and-impurities.<\/p>\n
I think I’m going to need to build a frame and fill it with either clay or sand to make these rails.<\/p>\n
I also think clay will be easier to work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 483: So melting the iron, once I got a strong enough forge built out of rock, was not really a problem. Takes a lot of wood, throws a lot of probably-caustic fumes, smells horrible, glad it’s not in my cavern, but workable. The sandy clay not so much. The sand and clay both kind … <\/p>\n