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[Bazzak]

Hey lads.

I couldn't find any information about pig iron as armor, hence this post.

My armorsmith decided not to wait until my pig iron bars were turned into steel, so he grabbed one bar of it, alongside with other items and made this breastplate.

Dibeshrasuk "Crazysliver" a pig iron breastplate. ( description in the spoiler )

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This is a pig iron breastplate. All Craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. This object menaces with spikes of oak.
On the item is an image of Rushedblizzards the Dented Quickness the mule bone armor stand in pig iron.
On the item is an image of Yonali Cryptwasps the elf and Nongnob Mightyyor the Season of Playing the cyclops in wax opal. Yonali Cryptwasps is cringing. Nongnob Mightyyor the Season of Playing is laughing. The artwork relates to the smashing of the elf Yonali Cryptwasps's thumb, left hand by the cyclops Nongnob Mightyyor the Seasons of Playing in 114.
On the item is an image of dwarves in donkey bone. The dwarves are travelling. The artwork relates to the foundation of Copperfocused by the Wet Spear of the Tangled Boot in the early spring of 1051

And my question is, is this any good for armor? I am slightly annoyed by the fact that it could have been steel, so as a side question, how does it compare to normal steel armor?

Cheers.

[Kilroy the Grand]

I think it is slightly better than iron, bit worse than steel.

[Bazzak]

Hm, I see.

Well considering it is an artifact armor, would it still be better than a normal, say superior-quality steel armor?

[NecroRebel]

No-quality steel armor would probably be better than artifact pig iron armor. Pig iron is worse in more-or-less every way to iron (its impact and shear yield and fracture values are higher, though the elasticity value is lower; the first is bad, the second is good), so iron and bronze weapons will likely go right through it, even when it gets a deflection. Since all artifacts do is triple the deflection chance compared to a no-quality item, your artifact is 3x as likely to blunt copper or silver edged attacks than a steel breastplate, but gets next to no benefit against better materials and probably won't be very likely to deflect blunt attacks at all.

[Bazzak]

Ah, thanks.

At least I now have a legendary armorsmith.

[miauw62]

It got an engraving of a cyclops bruising a elves thumb (left hand) on it.
That gave me a good chuckle, and therefore, i find this a good armor.

[Elf Lover]

Pig Iron = Iron made of Pigs.
Pigs of IRON!!!!!

[Minnakht]

Pig Iron = Iron made of Pigs.
Pigs of IRON!!!!!

Maybe not.

[ASCIt]

It got an engraving of a cyclops bruising a elves thumb (left hand) on it.
That gave me a good chuckle, and therefore, i find this a good armor.

this.