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[Grendus]

So I modded in a reaction to make wooden maces from the smelter. The reaction takes a wooden log and creates a wooden mace from the standard mace template. The problem is every time my dwarves try to pick up and carry a wooden mace they walk incredibly slow, like the mace is very heavy. I tried this earlier with a modded cudgel weapon (a direct copy of the mace item just did less damage) and I had the same problem.

I'm relatively new to modding the raws, so I'm not sure if I missed something basic that would cause reaction items to be incredibly heavy. I haven't seen dwarves move this slow since I assigned an unskilled hauler to move a bin of steel bars to the trade depot.

[mission0]

I think it's a common glitch with creating weapons through the smelter. Giving them outlandish weights. I remember seeing it awhile back on another thread but can't remember where.

Perhaps someone who knows a bit more about modding could explain it better.

[Grendus]

I'm pretty sure you're right. I thought it might be a bug since wooden maces aren't actually in game, so I changed it to spears, something I've bought from the elves many times. Same thing, spears were so heavy my dwarves could barely use them. I guess this will make survival embarks in evil zones harder, oh well.

[Sutremaine]

Post the reaction text, though I think I know what the problem is. Are you specifying what kind of wood the weapons are made of? If not, you need to do that. You can skip specifying a type of wood for the reagent, but the product must be made of a type of wood (see this page for what materials do and don't have subtypes).

Someone else can explain why untyped materials are bad; I don't know enough to explain it properly.

[Footkerchief]

Someone else can explain why untyped materials are bad; I don't know enough to explain it properly.

I'm pretty sure it's because the game's default values for material properties are usually absurd, and those values are left unchanged if there's no material subtype.

Sutremaine's solution should work.