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How High Can It Go?

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One question we are all very curious about is how hot can this mud oven get? When working in the Craft of Fire, you start to develop a point of view on the history of the human being as the history of the production and management of ever-hotter fires. If you can get your fire hotter, you can produce new kinds of materials, and that brings with it certain (big) advantages:   "When those who had forged iron came along and attacked the ones who had bronze weapons, the bronze would break. They came with iron and broke the bronze of the other guys. Run! It was ridiculous. T errible.  They had to run because their bronze would break. And so things moved from the Bronze age to the Iron age. The people of bronze had a superior civilization, with great productions, but they hadn't produced iron. And the other primitive types around where they lived had n't melted bro nze, they went straight and melted iron. And like that they defeated the ones with the superior civili