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Real Metalworking

In 2 collections by spoon
Realismus Crisostomus
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Project Realistic Overhaul
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Description
This mod addresses the need of vanilla friendly realistic primitive metalworking. It has tons of recipes but it wont let you craft EVERY metal object there is in the game. It is meant to be a profession suitable for a self learned apocalypse survivor or a former blacksmith - not for a superhero who can magically craft complex machinery after reading a magazine.

Works in SP and MP and can be added to existing savegames.

New items:
  • Stone furnace, bellows, anvil, forging mold, charcoal pit, metal cutter, hand drill and grindstone. + Two recipe books.

Recipe details:
  • Most metal items can be melted using a furnace or a blowtorch.
  • The other half can be stomped with any hammer-like object.
  • You can also mine various ores with my : Dynamic Mining mod.
  • Both - melting and stomping- will create unusable metal that is melted into iron ingots.
  • Most car parts and metal furniture can be melted into unusable metal as well (Furnace or blowtorch).
  • All gold/silver can be melted into nuggets and uses along with metal to create welding rods.
  • From iron ingots you can forge tons of tools, materials and even engine parts, using - molds, metal cutters, hand drills, knives, hammers, grindstones etc.
  • Mold is drainable and needs to be refilled with dirt time to time.
  • Charcoal is made in a charcoal pit by slow burning wood for couple of days.
  • All recipes can be created from ground so you can have materials/items nearby and not in your hand. Just in case be sure you keep your other stuff you don't want to be melted further away from the metal works area.
  • Furnace and charcoal pit is built on the spot and cant be moved without destroying it first. Anvil and Grindstone can be moved but are heavy. Destroying a furnace will give you most of the stuff back.
  • Metal antique oven and BBQ can also be craft-forged.
  • Blowtorch uses both petrol and propane.
  • Dismantle railroad tracks, big metal structures and various industrial equipment into metal.
  • Small chance to get hurt(scratched) when doing metalwork.
Everything related to metalworking needs a certain skill + a recipe book. Metalworker profession starts with some free recipes already given to them.










This is part of... :
Project Realistic Overhaul - Set of mods I've created that will overhaul the vanilla game experience to be more hardcore and true to life, but on the other hand leaves you the option to make it through and survive. It makes items and actions have more value and makes the world more alive.

Credits :
Special thanks to SumYungGuy for testing this mod and to DmitriySenpai for providing the translation template! Thank you.

Added Polish translation - Thank you KepaS
Added Spanish translation - Thank you Dr. Nitropic
Added Russian translation - Thank you Locked15 and axelroadman


Workshop ID: 2900671939
Mod ID: RealMetalworking
Popular Discussions View All (9)
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3 Jan @ 3:30pm
possible merge with another mod?
Daddy_lemonn
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11 Apr, 2023 @ 11:42pm
PINNED: Template lines to make your translations easier
DmitriySenpai
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10 Jun, 2023 @ 12:23pm
RU Translation
Locked15
300 Comments
PUMA FUMETA 19 Jun @ 8:40pm 
Do the bellows spawn or are they only crafted? I didn't find any
Sandy 18 Jun @ 9:37pm 
I can't take things apart for unusable metal. It says I can, but the crafting button remains greyed out even with the materials.
PUMA FUMETA 18 Jun @ 9:25am 
How do I create the kiln? Should I learn the recipe or something? In building with right click it appears to create it, but the object is in red and it does not tell me what materials I need, or if there is any other way to get charcoal
jlmccoy76 13 Jun @ 10:06pm 
"Small chance to get hurt(scratched) when doing metalwork"
Perhaps add a chance to get burned as well during some functions. Hot metal is dangerous unless you are careful!
[none] 25 May @ 11:04am 
I can't get glass out of widows or mirrors or anything. Every other recipe seemingly work, but I can't figure this out. Any clues?
ErwinPosposchil 24 Apr @ 12:23pm 
Where can i get Bellows?
Gumdrop Buttons 14 Apr @ 12:58pm 
I just installed the mod mid-save and haven't found any of the magazines etc yet. I got the option to dismantle a pistol into unsueable metal and gave it a try, scratched my hand doing it though. Did I just break that with the hammer I was carrying or did I hurt myself ripping apart a 1911 with my bare hands like a maniac?
Sceadugengan 13 Apr @ 9:33am 
Never mind.
I just noticed the missing nails landed in my backpack.
Kinda confusing that the product is split like this.
Sceadugengan 13 Apr @ 9:31am 
There's this recipe for making 100 nails out of a metal sheet.
For whatever reason I only get 20 nails per sheet.
Is this a bug or intentional?
Do I need anything else to get the full amount?
man 4 Apr @ 1:22pm 
ADD A PICKAXE RECIPE PLEASE ADD A PICKAXE RECIPE PLEASE ADD A PICKAXE RECIPE PLEASE ADD A PICKAXE RECIPE PLEASE