Anthracite -An Expansion to Mining

[malo2]

Contents-

 

 

 

1. What is Anthracite

 

2. Its uses ingame

 

3. Its work with the blast furnace

 

4. Mining Requierments and locations

 

 

 

1. What Is Anthracite?

 

 

 

Anthracite is a type of coal that is very pure, and releases alot of energy per small amounts. In earlier times It was often used in iron smelting.

 

 

 

2. Ingame uses.

 

 

 

In runescape Anthracite Coal could be a more powerful version of coal that works like the blast furnace, 1 Anthracite= 2 coal. So you need 2 times less anthricte to smelt than coal.

 

 

 

3. The Blast Furnace

 

 

 

To prevent the blast furnace from becoming almost entirely useless, the Anthracite coal could be used with the furnace. So if you put the Anthracite coal in the furnace, the metal you are smelting will need 2 times less anthracite, which is equivalent to 4 times less coal. This means that rune in the blast furnace with Anthracite would only need 2 anthracite, and in a regular furnace rune would need 4 Anthracite to smelt.

 

 

 

4. Requierments and Mining Locations

 

 

 

An ideal lvl requierment for Anthracite I think would be lvl 50, which is 20 lvls above coal.

 

Two good locations I can think of would be in the mines near Keldagrim and somewhere outside of Canifis.

 

 

 

This would be a very good timesaving yet expensive addition for miners and smithers. I welcome all suggestions and ideas, as long as theyre reasonable ofcourse. Please support.

[imhomer]

This, IMHO, makes smelting too easy. It's not that the idea is bad, it's that the item being mineable would make it too common. My idea is to be able to refine coal somehow to make have the same effect i.e. 1/2 as much required to smelt. The method to refine the coal would have a failure rate similar to smelting iron. I was thinking around 25% or even lower. This would make the oree prohibitively expensive for the average smither and thus, prevent smithing from becoming too easy to level. Just my idea.

[tefda]

This, IMHO, makes smelting too easy. It's not that the idea is bad, it's that the item being mineable would make it too common. My idea is to be able to refine coal somehow to make have the same effect i.e. 1/2 as much required to smelt. The method to refine the coal would have a failure rate similar to smelting iron. I was thinking around 25% or even lower. This would make the oree prohibitively expensive for the average smither and thus, prevent smithing from becoming too easy to level. Just my idea.

 

 

 

The main idea is pretty good (by author). ANYTHING to make Smithing easier/faster would be great. The above idea is a better alternative to mining it. If you're mining a "Pure" form of coal (sounds too close to Pure Rune Essence and regular...) why not get it from the coals itself? Make it a percentage chance to mine this better form of coal but make it to a similar number as gems (a diamond is just super-compresed coal after all) but it's unaffected by the Amulet of Glory?

 

 

 

If you "refine" the coal then you're still burning it up and this new more "pure" coal seems to be just a more powerful coal so burning it up doesn't seem right from a reality standard although this is Runescape so anything goes :P .

 

 

 

One last thing is what would happen if you're making steel? Would the super-coal have a cumulative effect (Meaning if you are making 10 steel bars you'd only need 10 super-coal)? Would it be usable only with itself (meaning you couldn't mix and match regular coal and super-coal so you have one super and two non super could you do a bar that requires four coal)?

 

 

 

But I do like this idea and the fact that you took into account the Blast Furnace and made it so that it evens out in use.

[seanite]

It's a good idea, just that too much is too much, the problem would be that coal prices would drop to lower than iron in members worlds, and it shouldn't be compatible w/ theblast furnace as that would just be allowing people to make more stuff and making market prices drop but in a further post up there mentioned like being able to purify coal into "super coal" my idea would be to put 2 coals together for the same effect, instead of failing alot of the time you'd make it all the time, the use for the double coal would be to increase the amount of stuff you could make from one trip with the uber coal

[malo2]

I think that problem would be best solved by limiting the spots to mine at, fewer rocks in fewer places, and farther from bank...ect..

 

 

 

oh and you would need only 1 supercoal for steel, 2 for mith, 3 for addy, 4 for rune...same as the blast furnace.

[bobbe1987]

I think it would be a better idea to make the mining requirement around 60. There should also be a smithing requirement, shouldn't there???

 

A penalty could also be added so that you get, say 25-50% less xp when using the "Anthracite".

 

 

 

Overall though, i like the idea. It would really help me out, im trying to get to level 85 smithing and mining. Cheer me on peeps.

[malo2]

I guess lvl 60 is reasonable too, and a smithing requierment would makes sence aswell, altho I dont like the penalty. It could cost more money and time, but costing xp is never a good idea..