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
   

Images

Changelog:

Version 2.2.0

• Added Steel Shears
• Added Tetra support
• Added more forge tags for compatibility purposes

Version 2.1.1:

• Fixed modded firestarter items not lighting Candles or Cakes with Candles (must be crouching for the latter)

Version 2.1.0

• Updated to 1.18.1
• Added recipe unlocking
• Added 4 Advancements:

1. Acquire Harder-ware - Blast a Steel Ingot
2. Heavy Duty - Place a Steel Anvil
3. Real Steel - Summon a Steel Golem to help defend a village
4. Watch the World Burn - Completely use up every firestarter, then reevaluate your sanity

Version 2.0.0:

• Updated to 1.17.1
• Re-textured everything
• Added Steel Anvil
• Added Steel Golem
• Increased cost of blasting Crude Iron
• Slightly reduced Steel blast resistance
• Iron firestarters can now be made from Raw Iron (other modders, use forge:iron_firestarter_materials to add your items)
• Fixed Steel Trapdoors not having the correct blast resistance
• Removed unnecessary vanilla Forge tags

Version 1.1.0:

• Increased Steel Tool durability from 343 to 484
• Smelting Crude Iron now requires a Blast Furnace
• Added Steel Nuggets
• Fixed Steel Block to Steel Ingot recipe

Known Issues:

• Cakes with Candles can only be lit by modded firestarters while crouching. Mojang hardcoded the use behavior to always attempt to eat the cake unless holding specifically a vanilla firestarter item.

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.