Factorio Forums

Since the game is so very steampunky (which I absolutely love btw), how about making two different tiers of iron plates (see title) instead of going directly to steel? I know it would be tricky to implement with how the furnaces currently work, but how about treating the ore somehow for the second-tier smelting or something? Just a thought

At this stage of development it would feel like it was uncomfortably wedged in at the last minute, which is basically what it would be.

Forget implementing it, you'd need to fully redesign the game's recipes to incorporate it in a way it feels like a natural part of the game. It's also artificially adding complexity by simply increasing the number of steps you need to do to iron, which makes things more complicated than it does more interesting.

If you feel that the game could use some more materials and "stuff" to build, head over to the mods section.

You make a good point, oh well