• Skua@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    The fact that he’s not even working with ore is wild too. The guy just gathers some orange slime from a river and then turns it into a working knife

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      3 months ago

      Slime instead of ore and charcoal instead of coal, he is making iron on the hardest difficulty setting

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        He literally only works with what he can gather and make himself from the area he works in, which is a forest in the north of Queensland, Australia. So the charcoal is made from the local trees in a furnace made from clay from the banks of the nearby river, and the slime is iron bacteria that grow in the river

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      3 months ago

      It is probably the first source of iron used by humans. These sludge/mud sources are pretty clean concentrated sources of iron oxides because of how they form.

      It is just easiest way to make iron, they aren’t used now because there’s not much iron in them.

      Edit: I mean they are small