Patient Forge

People have been griping about iron and steel cooling faster than expected.

Patient Forge makes smithable items take longer to cool - a configurable rate, by default about four times longer.

This does not affect casting, molds still harden at regular speed.  And finished pieces are no longer a smithable item, so they should also cool at the regular speed.

In VS, any item that's been heated carries an attribute called 'temperature'.  Any time anything asks for the temperature (the tooltip, the anvil, the forge, quenching) it calculates the temperature based on how long it's been since the last check.  There's a 30 second grace period where a freshly heated workpiece maintains its temperature, and then it starts to drop.  Basically, below 200 degrees the workpiece loses about 2 degrees per second.  Above 200, the rate scales with temperature.  Hot workpieces cool down faster.

By the way, In real life blacksmithing, there's a 30 second to 45 second heating period, and then the useful work time is measured in seconds for something as thin as a knife or sword.  A blacksmith will keep two or three pieces rotating in the forge so that he can keep busy while the rest are heating again.  So be thankful that Vintage Story isn't 'totally realistic' or we'd only get a few hammer strikes before we need to heat again.

If you've downloaded this, can you please just comment "works" if it does?  Thank you very much :)