40d:Copper

Copper

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Uses
Make bronze at smelter Make brass at smelter Make lay pewter at smelter Make fine pewter at smelter Make trifle pewter at smelter Make nickel silver at smelter Make billon at smelter Make sterling silver at smelter Make rose gold at smelter Make bismuth bronze at smelter Armor Melee Weapons Crossbows Bolts Picks Metal crafting Construction
Ore
Native copper Malachite Tetrahedrite
Properties
Block% 66 Damage% 66 Material value 2
Wikipedia article

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Copper is a metal used in a large number of alloys. It is also one of the least valuable of the metals. Weapons made out of it do mediocre damage (66%) compared to Iron; similarly, armors have mediocre defense (66%). It may be best to use copper to smelt more valuable alloys rather than making weapons and armors. Of course if you don't have wide access to better metals, copper is still a fine metal to use. Copper weapons are the next best training weapons if you don't have access to silver and can't trade with the elves for wooden weapons.

Copper is smelted (at a Smelter) from Native Copper, Malachite, or Tetrahedrite.

Copper can be used for minting at a metalsmith's forge, creating coins. Minted copper coins are then used in the economy system. Using coins as trade good is not advisable as they have no quality levels.

Copper may be combined with other metals at a smelter. The following is a list of recipes involving copper:

• Nickel silver = Copper + 2x Nickel + Zinc
• Brass = Copper + Zinc
• Bronze = Copper + Tin
• Lay pewter = Copper + 2x Tin + Lead
• Trifle pewter = Copper + 2x Tin
• Fine pewter = Copper + 3x Tin
• Billon = Copper + Silver
• Bismuth bronze = 2x Copper + Tin + Bismuth
• Sterling silver = Copper + 3x Silver
• Black bronze = 2x Copper + Silver + Gold
• Rose gold = Copper + 3x Gold

Copper alloy material value

When mixed with other metals to form an alloy, the resulting material has the following material value multiplier; since copper has a MVM of 2, this is an overall gain, as the total number of bars of material used equals the number created:

• Nickel silver = MV 3
• Lay pewter = MV 3
• Trifle pewter = MV 4
• Fine pewter = MV 5
• Bronze = MV 5 (75% as effective as iron)
• Bismuth bronze = MV 6 (75% as effective as iron)
• Billon = MV 6
• Brass = MV 7
• Sterling silver = MV 8
• Black bronze = MV 11
• Rose gold = MV 23

Raws
[MATGLOSS_METAL:COPPER] [NAME:copper][ADJ:copper][COLOR:6:4:0] [VALUE:2] [SPEC_HEAT:385] [MELTING_POINT:11952] [BOILING_POINT:14611] [WEAPON][WEAPON_RANGED][AMMO][DIGGER][ARMOR] [DAMAGE_PERC:66] [BLOCK_PERC:66] [SOLID_DENSITY:8930]

V · T · E Metals
Base	Aluminum • Bismuth • Copper • Gold • Iron • Lead • Nickel • Platinum • Silver • Tin • Zinc
Alloys	Billon • Bismuth bronze • Black bronze • Brass • Bronze • Electrum • Fine pewter • Lay pewter • Nickel silver • Pig iron • Rose gold • Steel • Sterling silver • Trifle pewter
Special	Adamantine