How to Make Steel in Mapper Base

From Raw Steel to Steel Ingot

Steel production starts with Raw Steel. You need a Raw Steel Block as an intermediate storage block, and the actual conversion into usable metal happens through blasting. Place your Raw Steel into a furnace set up for blasting to produce Steel Ingot. The mod includes blasting recipes specifically for this chain, so use a blast furnace rather than a regular furnace for the best results.

Once you have Steel Ingot, you can break it down into Steel Nugget for smaller crafts, or combine ingots into a Steel Block for storage and building. Steel Block is also a decorative and structural block you can place directly in the world.

Turning Ingots into Parts

Most Mapper Base recipes do not use ingots directly. You convert them into intermediate components first:

• Steel Plate — used in armor, tools, and many shaped recipes.
• Steel Rod — used in tools, fences, and similar items.
• Rivet — a small fastener used in assembling larger steel items.
• Iron Plate and Iron Rod — the iron equivalents, needed for early tools like the Flatter Hammer.

Keep a stock of Steel Plate, Steel Rod, and Rivet on hand. Nearly every steel tool, armor piece, and building block in the mod is assembled from these parts rather than from raw ingots, so batching them early saves repeated trips to the crafting table.