ADragonCalledGeorge Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Can someome please make a mod that lets you make glass at a smelter? This is chiefly for the Hearthfire DLC as I hate buying it all the time and finding it in loot is very random and rare. It would be epic if I could make it myself cause you can in real life. I don't really know how glass is made but I know it involves sand (I think) so perhaps you can find sand piles at the beach or river beds that look and act similar to clay mounds. You dig them for sand and then get piles of sand in your inventory. That can be one ingredient and it can require another for realism, whatever that is. So yeah basically if someone can make this mod a reality it would be really cool and I would love to try this out. Many thanks in advance!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander9009 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 I think the best combination of realism and utility/ease would be to make it so when you mine clay, there's a small (but usable, it would need tweaked) chance of getting sand (which, for simplicity's sake, could just use the clay model). Then use sand and some metal, probably iron or corundum. Quicksilver would be the most realistic. An ingot, not ore. Metal is used in the production of glass. But it's largely recyclable. It needs to become molten liquid, and then the sand is melted into molten glass, and the molten glass is floated on the heavier molten metal so it can be formed. So, require one quicksilver ingot, but it's not used up (it produces one to offset using one). But it would also require salt (soda-lime glass is 30% sodium and calcium oxides). The floating is how molten glass is made flat, and since all the glass used in the house production is used for display cases except the arcane enchanter and alchemy workbench, that's the kind of glass needed. Or you could just use clay instead of sand. It doesn't have to be truly realistic. That's how I'd do it. One clay+one salt pile+one quicksilver ingot=one glass+one quicksilver ingot. Simple, clean, not overly unrealistic (in fact, you can make glass from clay, it's just not clear). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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