Life is Feudal Official Forum

[Babykittydriver]

The whole thing with flux seems very unreasonable, due to the fact that it makes completely no sense that steel requires a mixture of herbs to make. i personally think that flux should either be removed from the game, made less of it required to make certain items, or make it easier to make. i see the fact that its supposed to be hard to make the gates, and you are supposed to have large groups to play the game, but honestly, there aren't really going to be that large of groups playing on lif YO. to compensate for this, it should at least be made easier for lif YO. Overall, Flux seems unrealistic and should be changed in these ways i have listed.

[Nosfirebird]

as long as it for life YO i +1 this to make it cost less flux like 10 for a basic gate

[Ilegibally]

They should just make marble usable as flux stone

[Ulrich_von_Riga]

True. Flux is getting on my nerves. I just finished gate module, that was 4 days of herb gathering

[Tiba666]

flux easy enough to get if you play with 3 herblore but
and think flux give good sence if you ever made you own steel


"A related use of flux is to designate the material added to the contents of a smelting furnace or a cupola for the purpose of purging the metal of impurities, and of rendering the slag more liquid. The flux most commonly used in iron and steel furnaces is limestone, which is charged in the proper proportions with the iron and fuel. The slag is a liquid mixture of ash, flux, and other impurities."

[Boas]

Well we have "solved" that matter on our little part of the world, since we are more persons that gather herbs, and there is one person that is the "medic"...

That way, the smith needs to pay a little more for the flux, and that makes it valuable to be the "herber" on the server...

I belive, that it is great, that you can use a person that has spend his points on herbalism and not on a lot of the other skills...

That it could be fair, that you need a little less than 6 flux to make stell I won't argue... Still the "trick" seems to be, that you make Steel Ingots, since they cost the same as the others, and then break that one down into smaller pices...

[Fluffypinkbunny]

It's not a trick to break Steel ingots into bars/lumps, it's a design

(my report to the bug tracker)
"Currently (according to the wiki, I haven't tried),
it costs 12 flux to make one ingot of steel.
it costs 6 flux to make one bar of steel.
it costs 2 flux to make one lump of steel.

since one ingot makes 5 bars, and one bar makes 8 lumps, it's much more cost effective to make the higher item, than the lower.

I would much rather, use 12 flux, to make 5 bars, than 30 flux, and much much rather use 6 flux to make 1 bar, than 16 to make 8 lumps.

or if you take the math to silly levels, 1 ingot (12 flux), 5 bars (30 flux), 40 lumps (80 flux)"

(their answer)

binart (developer)
2014-10-15 19:59
"all math u provided is right, and this is right that making ingots more efficient, u allways have a choice)"