Boulders and metallurgy

[Teleskop]

Do the smeltin skills affect the smelting ratios of boulder mined ore too?

[vatas]

I think that in last world it was established that they don't count when chipping ore boulders.

[Turtlesir]

nope. only affects mining.

[VDZ]

I'm starting to suspect the smelting ratios don't apply to boulders at all. I have smelted three batches of 25 Black Ore and one batch of 20 Black Ore, all mined from boulders; according to the wiki it should have an ore-to-bar ratio of 30%, but two of the 25 batches and the 20 batch all netted one bar, while another 25 batch netted only Gneiss. Meanwhile, I have been smelting Cassiterite (also listed as having a smelt chance of 30%) mined from a cave node, and I'm consistently getting at least 5 bars per batch.

It's really frustrating, as you can barely do anything with metal until you've made an anvil + hammer, which costs 7 iron bars. I'd need to find a third, and probably even a fourth boulder to get that.

[Turtlesir]

i'm getting pretty strange results as well. entire batch of magnetite, nothing. batch of heavy earth, 3 bars. it seems all over the place.

[Leon232]

same here....my bloodstone is yielding 1 bar a load.........thats insanely low no matter how i look at it