I have been slighted! [Crafting bug]

[MishkaL1138]

I was making some armor, and I messed up the quantities for a piece - took 4 steel ingots instead of 3, made a set of steel plates... dangit.

So I plop them back in the forge, this should get me my ingots back, etc. So in total I crafted 16 pieces of that (I wasn't paying attention), and the expected yield would've been 64 ingots - I only got 32. WHAT!!

I go to my book, read it frantically... "Hammer Red hot set of steel plates into 2 steel ingots." Then I go to ingots "Shape 4 heated steel ingots into set of steel plates."

I want my ingots back. All 32 of them.

[Illysia]

There, there, Avocado... everyone knows that you never quite get all your materials back in an RPG. Just think of it as Laanx or whoever taking their cut.

[Aeghiss]

This recipe is a bit troublesome indeed. For some reason, you can craft sets of steel plates using two ways :
Shaping 4 heated steel ingots into a set of steel plates OR Shaping 2 heated steel ingots into a set of steel pieces, then heating it and shaping it into a set of steel plates.

You'll easily understand why it's better that hammering a red hot set of steel plates gives you only 2 steel ingots rather than 4.

That doesn't explain why there are two ways to make these and one requires twice less base material, though...

[Venalan]

The opening post just sounds like the systems design. The second sounds very much like a mistake, you just need to make a big report and make sure eonwind knows about it.

[Tuathanach]

I will look into bug 6901