Weeb’s Metallurgy
Ever wanted to make a platinum warhammer? An aluminum sword? Ever wanted to fill a goblin with lead? Well now you can!
Weeb’s Metallurgy allows practical and interesting metals to be used for weapons and armour, and also adds a few new ones.
Nickel, Zinc, Brass, Platinum, Lead, Aluminum, and Nickel Silver now have accurate material properties and are considered tool metals.
Earthenware, Stoneware, Porcelain and Uranium are added, and have interesting properties that are fun to explore.
Spoilers if you want to experiment yourself:
Nickel: A little better than copper for sharp weapons and armour, blunt weapons are nearly the same. Slightly less dense.
Zinc: A little worse than copper for most things, but very lightweight. Light armour is quite good for unskilled soldiers.
Brass: Around copper level cutting ability, but less dense. Armour made of brass is quite good at handling blunt attacks, because it tends to deform rather than dent.
Platinum: Hard and sharp, in between bronze and steel. Incredibly dense and as a result hard to swing around.
Lead: Pitifully soft. Incredibly heavy. Bolts made of this bludgeon an enemy to death rather than penetrate. Cheap but heavy materials can be used for many !!FUN!! things.
Aluminum: Way lighter than any other metal. Worse combat performance than copper, expensive.
Nickel Silver: Better than bronze, worse than steel. Medium density, somewhere around copper.
Earthenware/Stoneware/Porcelain: Smelted from clay, fireclay, and kaolinite respectively. Porcelain is better than stoneware which is better than earthenware. Super lightweight, not bad at cutting, but incredibly brittle and not good at defeating armour. Ceramic armour will protect extremely well from one or two blows before breaking entirely.
Uranium: Denser than any other metal. Surprisingly hard and durable. Smelted from pitchblende which is IRL uranium ore. I’ll implement radiation sickness when Toady adds lead poisoning.
