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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6335218" data-attributes="member: 6670763">Bronze is really quite easy to work. If you know the method, you can make it with nothing but a campfire and a clay pot, assuming you have the raw materials. And it's also very easy to recycle. Just break it into small pieces, heat it up until it turns liquid, and then pour it into a new mold.Making steel that is better than bronze is rather difficult though. Since the melting point of iron is significantly higher than of copper, a normal fire won't do it and you need much more complex equipment and better knowledge of what you're doing.However, there are still some steelmakers in Japan who make steel the old fashion way for authentic traditional art (traditional sword blades are classified as art, not weapons). The skills are much more complex and difficult than for making a good bronze, but they do it just with clay, charcoal, reed baskets, and hammers. Making blades from such iron look super shiny is a great deal of work, but if you don't care how it looks, but only how it cuts, than making weapons with it is not that difficult.The greatest challenge is knowing what ingedients you need and how to correctly mix and heat them. It's a skill that took very long to develop, because nobody knew it was even possible until someone discovered by trial and error.Orcs would probably live in a world where steelmaking already exist and they know it can be done. It should not be too difficult to them to capture someone and force him to teach them the basics.And if there is one type of craft orcs would be interested in mastering, then it's the making of steel and forging of weapon. Once they are familiar with the principle, they should probably make great progress with figuring out the specific details of making very good steel.</blockquote>

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