Originally posted by Reften:

Originally posted by SwellGuitar46:

Im on my knees beggin for to smelt the other ores. Like seriously, I think its common sense to assume that it would replace the regular one. It doesn't, you need this giant furnace for one ore.

Probably safe to assume in the future there will be more ore that will require blast furnace. Plus, just wait, it gets worse :)

It already exists and it's even available. But technically it's still ashlands content and has no real use in the game at this time.

And considering both the ashlands metal and black metal are both something of fantasy material, it's okay for them to have completely separate processing furnace IMO.