Simply Steel [Forge]

A simple Vanilla+ style mod that adds steel.

NOTE: I will not be updating this mod further, as I no longer have the time to do so. The code is available on GitHub, feel free to do with it what you like.

Purpose:

Adds steel as an early-game durability fix. No more crafting four iron pickaxes when searching for your first diamonds!  Also it adds cool new block textures and some other miscellaneous things.

Feature List:

Steelmaking

• Craft an Iron Ingot with Coal into Crude Iron.
• Smelt Crude Iron in a Blast Furnace to make a Steel Ingot (costs 6x more fuel than normal)
  

Steel Tools and Armor

• Compared to iron, durability is improved with steel tools (250 -> 484) and armor (240 -> 320)
• Steel tools are slightly more efficient (6.0 -> 6.5), and steel armor has +1 Armor Toughness.
• Steel has slightly higher enchantability (14 -> 16)
  

Steel Anvil

• Has half the chance of cracking from being used or dropped, allowing it to last much longer on average.
  

Steel Doors, Trapdoors, Bars, and Blocks

• Harder and more blast resistance than their iron counterparts, these come with new textures great for brutalist or industrial builds.
  

More Firestarters (Flint and Steel variants)

• Quartz can be used in place of Flint to create a firestarter with more durability.
• Steel is now used to craft firestarters. Using Iron in the crafting recipe now results in a 50% sparking failure chance.

Steel Golem

• Created similarly to an Iron Golem, it has 50% more health and heals 50% more from ingots.
  Advancements!
• Acquire Harder-ware - Blast a Steel Ingot
• Heavy Duty - Place a Steel Anvil
• Real Steel - Summon a Steel Golem to help defend a village
• Watch the World Burn - Completely use up every firestarter, then reevaluate your sanity

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Feel free to use this pack in modpacks. Please include credit.

Note: Should be compatible with other mods' steels, if they use the proper forge tags.