Masterwork:Metal

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MDF: v1.31

In the Masterwork mod, there are a variety of new weapons grade metal materials. This includes alternate industries for metals of similar quality or even better than iron and steel. Note, that in general your enemies will have access to high quality materials too!

Metal Industries

The Dwarven Arc Furnace is capable of creating metals that can't be extracted at a regular smelter. These including decorative chrome and titanium; weapons grade cobalt; and high end weapons grade metals mithril and wolfram. In this process, the ore must be ground into a bag, then the metal is extracted from the powder. Dwarves can further process these metals into high end alloys at the Metallurgist.

Orcs can only make a few specific weapons and crafts from these un-smeltable ores at the Damasc Furnace.

Dwarves have even more high-tech metallurgy available once they strike magma. The Great Magma Forge makes items of Volcanic metal by alloying mithril, steel, and obsidain & slade stone. They can also process raw bifrost, obtained by defeating Frost Giants, into a mythical metal that rivals the properties of adamantine itself. The Dwarven Crucible can also create mithril from silver, and create obsidian and slade from any stone.

Both Dwarves and Orcs can use the Boneyard to create weapons-grade Ironbone and Bloodsteel from ash, bone, and blood. Additionally The Orcish Tribal Warcrafter can efficiently make a selection of items directly from organic materials.

Orc tribes can obtain by trade blueprint for the Ashland Glassblower, which makes cobalt and ruby stained glass, and can also process bars of metallic green glass and ebonglass. The Dwarven Glassforge and Gemforge can also make weapons from crystal glass and gems.

List of metals

Weapons Grade Metals and Alloys

Includes both Masterwork Dwarf Fortress and Orc Fortress materials.

Metal	Tile	Source	Density	Melt Point	Value	I yield	I fract	I elast	S yield	S fract	S elast	Max Edge	Notes
Bifrost	≡‼	Raw bifrost Dwarven Great Bifrost Forge	8.20	25000	100	4000	4000	0	4000	4000	0	50000	Superior for edged weapons, any armor Inferior only to adamantine Fine for blunt weapons
Volcanic	≡‼	Mithril + slade + obsidian + steel Dwarven Great Magma Forge	7.85	25000	60	3010	5040	1880	860	1440	430	20000	Superior for edged weapons, any armor Fine for blunt weapons
Deep bronze	≡‼	Mithril + gold + bronze Orcish Ancient Foundry	19.228	16159	40	2500	2500	1705	630	920	338	14000	Excellent for all weapons; armor vs. edge Can rend steel, mithril, orichalcum Very heavy
Orichalcum	≡‼	Bloodsteel + iron + silver Orcish Ancient Foundry Rarely recovered (1%) from all ore	10.500	12718	40	3000	4200	940	430	720	200	20000	Very good for all weapons Excellent armor against impact Reagent for orcish arcane blades
Welded mithril	≡‼	Mithril + steel Dwarven Metallurgist (bars) Orcish Damasc (blades)	0.600	12768	75	2505	3520	1340	630	920	175	20000	Excellent for edged weapons, all armor Can rend steel, mithril, orichalcum Supernaturally light
Welded wolfram	≡‼	Wolfram + rose gold Dwarven Metallurgist (bars) Orcish Damasc (hammers)	59.228	16159	38	3500	3500	2005	1510	1510	338	10000	Best for blunt weapons Supernaturally heavy
Mithril	≡‼	Mithril ore Dwarven Arc Furnace	2	20000	45	2005	3020	1140	530	820	115	12000	Very good for edged weapons, all armor Very light
Wolfram	≡‼	Wolfram ore Dwarven Arc Furnace	19.228	16159	30	2500	2500	1705	1510	1510	338	10000	Excellent for blunt weapons Very poor shear (edge) modulus Very heavy
Welded cobalt	≡‼	Cobalt + billon Dwarven Metallurgist (bars) Orcish damasc (mail)	7.85	12718	15	1715	2880	940	490	490	155	10000	Fine for all weapons, armor Good against impact Shear between iron and steel

Alternate Metal-like Materials

Material	Tile	Source	Density	Melt Point	Value	I yield	I fract	I elast	S yield	S fract	S elast	Max Edge	Notes
Ashland Glass	≡‼	Moonstone + Malachite + Green Glass Orcish Ashland Glassblower	1.01	13600	24	2005	2100	300	480	770	75	12000	Good for edged weapons, all armor Relatively brittle rather than ductile Very light
Ebonglass	≡‼	Obsidian + Ruby glass + Cobalt glass Orcish Ashland Glassblower	19.228	13600	24	2005	2100	300	480	770	75	12000	Good for all weapons, armor Relatively brittle rather than ductile Very heavy
Crystal Glass (Tempered)	≡‼	Rock crystal, or crystaltrees Dwarven Glassforge Orcish Nethermill	7.85	12718	10	1205	2020	790	350	600	175	15000	Fine for all weapons, armor Intermediate between iron and steel
Gem (tempered)	≡‼	Gems Dwarven Gemforge Orcish Fletcher (arrows)	7.85	11500	1	1205	2020	790	350	600	175	8000	Fine for all weapons, armor Intermediate between iron and steel
Bloodsteel	≡‼	Ironbone + blood Boneyard Orcish Tribal warcrafter	7.85	12718	24	1505	2520	940	430	720	215	10000	Good for all weapons, armor Comparable to steel
Ironbone	≡‼	Bone + ash Boneyard Orcish Tribal warcrafter	7.85	12768	9	542	1080	319	155	310	189	10000	Fine for all weapons, armor Comparable to iron
Devilthorn	≡‼	Devilthorn trees	100	12768	10	2000	2500	50	2000	2500	50	10000	Excellent for all weapons Supernaturally heavy
Netherwood (Processed)	≡‼	Netherwood trees Dwarven Timberyard Orcish Nethermill	0.500	Fixed temp	7	15	15	1500	45	45	1500	1500	Just a bit tougher than normal wood Fire resistant (fixed temp)

Selected base Dwarf Fortress Metals and Alloys

Provided for comparison. See DF2012:Metal for a complete list.

Metal	Tile	Source	Density	Melt Point	Value	I yield	I fract	I elast	S yield	S fract	S elast	Max Edge	Notes
Adamantine	≡‼	Raw adamantine	0.200	25000	300	5000	5000	0	5000	5000	0	100000	Best for edged weapons, all armor
Steel	≡‼	iron + pigiron + flux + carbon	7.85	12718	30	1505	2520	940	430	720	215	10000	Good for all weapons, armor
Iron	≡‼	Hematite, limonite, magnetite	7.85	12768	10	542	1080	319	155	310	189	10000	Fine for all weapons, armor
Bronze	≡‼	Tin + copper	8.25	11868	5	602	843	547	172	241	156	10000	Fine for all weapons, armor
Silver	≡‼	Native silver, galena (50%)	10.49	11731	10	350	595	350	100	170	333	10000	Good for blunt weapons; poor for armor
Copper	≡‼	Native copper, malachite, tetrahedrite	8.93	11952	2	245	770	175	70	220	145	10000	Fine for blunt weapons; poor for armor

Legend:

Tile Color corresponds to how items made from that metal are displayed in game, foreground and background colors.

Source Ore(s) indicates the specific ores that can provide a metal or basic recipe for an alloy.

Density is used to determine the different weight of finished objects and force of weapon strikes. Value shown here is the raw value divided by 10³ (g/cm³?)

Melting point is used to determine if a material is magma-safe or not: magma is 12000°U.

Material value is what the base value of an object made of this metal is multiplied by to determine its worth.

Impact yield: Used for blunt-force combat; higher is better. This is the raw value divided by 10³ (GPa?)

Impact fracture: Used for blunt-force combat; higher is better. This is the raw value divided by 10³

Impact elasticity: Used for blunt-force combat; lower is better. This is the raw value.

Shear yield: Used for cutting calculations in combat; higher is better. This is the raw value divided by 10³

Shear fracture: Used for cutting calculations in combat; higher is better. This is the raw value divided by 10³

Shear elasticity: Used for cutting calculations in combat; lower is better. This is the raw value.

• General Term Explanations (From Wikipedia)

Yield Strength - The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently.

Fracture Strength - The stress coordinate on the stress-strain curve at the point of rupture.

Stress - Force per area = F/A

Strain - Deformation of a solid due to stress = Stress/Young's Modulus