Leftover material

[p0em]

What can you do with the leftover liquid metal when making weapons except for pour them on to the ground? There's always around 0.07 Lt of melted metal and their quality kept dropping

[nenacu]

I tend to drop the pot in the trough between pours to preserve the metal, and I tend to pour the excess into guards and pommels. Who knows? Could always use it later and the chest to hold them is pretty spacious.

[Morilibus]

At the moment you are limited to pouring into the mold again and making extra pommels or guards. Some of them don't take much metal to cast.

Though I heard they want to add ingots in the next update so we can save the metal that way. Unassembled pommels and guards get stored in the chest near the ore storage automatically when you sleep.

Note the quality of the ore will stabilize when it is closer to its melting point. The higher above its melting point the quicker it will decrease.

You can place the melting bucket in the water trough to rapidly cool it and also solidify the metal in the bucket for later use. That will hault it's quality from going down.

I can't remember if it will persist in there after you sleep, but I think it does.

You could then put more of the same ore into and it again to make something else with it.

I also believe the ore quality resets to 100% when a new ore chunk melts into the bucket.

Another option empty the current mold and partially fill a mold with it and then melt some more ore and finish pouring the mold with the new batch.

Though, pouring it on the ground as you are doing may be ideal in some cases.

[Arch]

Two ways to do this. The Smart way and the Gamer way.

The Smart Way:

There's a way to calculate how much weight your parts need to have based on the volume of liquid. any 1 Ore is 0.1L of Volume, every time. If an alloy takes 3 Ore, it's 0.3L. Weight of 1 Ore is the Density from the Book on the Design Table divided by 10,000.

I think there's a Guide that has the numbers in it. If you do the math, I always take off an extra 0.01 or 0.02 weight per Ore. This is because I'd rather have a 100% pour with 0.03L waste than a 98% pour with 0.00L waste. But, you could do less if you want, or remove none.

So, if you know 1 Iron Ore is 0.78kg, and we knock of 0.02kg to be safe, we can pour up to 0.76kg of parts before it runs out. If I melt 4 Iron Ore for 0.4L, it would weigh 3.12, but i'd remove 0.02kg per ore, 0.08kg total. So I'd make 3.04kg of stuff at most. There's still some waste, but it's not so bad.


The Gamer Way:

Just water it down.

Pour your remaining melted metal into the Mould, grab an Iron Ore (because it's the cheapest), melt it, and just top-off the Mould with the Iron to 100%. Then waste the extra Liquid Iron, because it's like 5 coins.

You'll have a bad mixture of metal, but some value is better than no value.

[Maximemoring]

I have a different trick. After pouring, drop the bucket into the water, it will solidify the metal, which will stop it from degrading. Then you put more ore and heat it back up for the next weapon! No loss! (except slightly lower ore quality, but if you're quick, it's marginal)