How to Get Steel and Basic Crafting Materials

To progress through the equipment tiers in The Epic Knights Addon, you need to set up a steady supply of three vanilla materials: leather, wool, and iron. These convert into the base components required for nearly every weapon and armor recipe.

Smelting Steel

Steel is the primary metal in this addon and is required to craft every armor set.

1. Mine vanilla iron ore and smelt it into standard iron ingots.

2. Place your iron into a furnace and smelt it again to produce steel.

3. Use your steel for armor fabrication first, or save it for mid-tier weapons. Steel weapons deal the same attack damage as iron weapons and less than diamond, but they offer higher durability than iron.

Preparing Leather and Wool Components

Before you can assemble gear at a crafting table, you must process raw animal drops into intermediate parts:

• Leather Strips: Craft vanilla leather into leather strips. These strips are mandatory for assembling weapon hilts and poles.
• Woolen Cloth: Craft vanilla wool blocks into woolen cloth. Keep a large stash of this cloth on hand, as it is the base ingredient for the starter Gambeson armor set as well as cosmetic capes and surcoats.