40d Talk:Metal

what does brittle mean. (For the game, I know what it means). --Soyweiser 13:20, 6 November 2007 (EST)

Hey Soyweiser, if you look at the Raw file below there are tags for [BRITTLE] on some of the metals. I can only assume that this increases the chances of a weapon or other object breaking when in use; but that's just a guess. --Markavian

Yeah, I saw that in the raw files indeed. Perhaps it makes the items degrade faster. But we have no proof of this yet? nobody tested it? --Soyweiser 06:47, 7 November 2007 (EST)

I'm pretty sure that the brittle flag means that you cannot make craft goods and furniture from it. Note that bismuth and pig iron cannot be made into any craft good or furniture item.

Alloys

Alright, someone merged Alloy into this page, but there's also alloy information at smelting. If not its own page, where are we gonna put that info? --Turgid Bolk 01:18, 7 November 2007 (EST)

Counts

Is the number of resulting bars always the same as the one of used bars/ore pieces? There used to be some bugs, resulting in getting more or less bars, than expected. Has anyone checked this in the last version? Dorten 04:06, 10 January 2008 (EST)

Galena. Tetrahedrite. VengefulDonut 10:27, 10 January 2008 (EST)

Graph

Anyone want to make a graph like http://archive.dwarffortresswiki.net/images/9/9c/Metalchart.png ? If nobody says yes, I might give it a try. --Savok 15:58, 2 February 2008 (EST)

That's pretty awesome... t'would be quite the undertaking to get it fully updated and still understandable though. The fuel flow is a tad bit confusing, but not very much so. --Edward 21:56, 2 February 2008 (EST)

Additionally, width would have to be less than about 781px, which was the width of the old image and nigh horizontal scrollbar width. --Savok 22:02, 2 February 2008 (EST)