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Growable Metals

Midnight Starburst, there is currently a behavior where bags in barrels can't be used. If you set your stockpiles holding metal dust to have 0 barrels, it should work again. Looking into the vanilla metals not working, maybe this broke in an update

doug righteous - since there's really no way to tell the users what material properties a material has, those properties have to be inferred by usage i.e. what can it be made into. But also, the value is an agglomerate of how "good" all the material values are and what it can be used for. So a higher value metal will generally be better than a lower value one. For example, metals with lower density, higher strength, higher sharpness, higher melting point (can be made into anvil / fire safe) all contribute to a higher value.

I wish these properties were visible, even for vanilla materials. The fact we have to go to a wiki to see if iron is better than copper is a bit of a shame. Maybe tarn will get around to it, if its a priority to him.

After some testing, the vanilla parts dont work at all for me. setting them to true doesnt work, but setting the new ones to false does work.

Im also getting an issue where enabling vanilla metals doesnt add them, even when I create a new world

I have bags of the metal powder, but it says I dont have any at the magma smelter?

love the idea and its a great solution for really crappy rng maps. i just really need a bit more transparency tbh. really hard to determine what type of equivalents my guys are using

BTW @Preevyet in case you missed it, check the changelogs, the most recent update should have what you're looking for, just set the flags as appropriate in the installed mod's init.lua file

Thank you for the clarification. Awesome mod and a great example of the potential dwarf fortress modding has.

@Preevyet and Strat: The generated metals use randomized values to determine densities, strength, edged weapon potential, etc. Physical strength and edged weapon effectiveness are then summed and the material value is calculated from those. So while not visible (I'd love for them to be but don't see a way) you can approximate how "useful" they are based on those values. Whether they can then be used to construct various objects follows from the physical properties (for instance, a high melting point > 12000U allows for anvils to be created). I'm working on a companion mod which would add the vanilla metals in as well.

I must admit some confusion regarding the mod. The growable metals are not vanilla metals, but purely modded in varieties.

What are these modded metals based on? What can they be used for? Can they be used to craft all of the same things that the base games metals can. Weapons, armour, etc.

If you do feel up to it, I for one would love an alternate version which just uses the base game metals.