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[Walkaboutout]

So, the first caravan from the mountainhome arrived and it brought two bars of:

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Faceted metal, at 900 dwarfbucks a pop. Actually, looking at it now, duh me, they aren't metal bars. They're listed in the section where raw stone and clay have been brought by the caravan as if it were mined out stone or clay or something, and called only "faceted metal". It's uses are listed as "sharp blades" when I view the item, which I think is like stone swords from obsidian, right? They weigh 100 Urists a piece.

I assume that that's not supposed to happen? I'll make a bug report but before I do, I'm wondering if it's intended to be, possibly, a hyper rare situation. I sorta doubt it. I have some personal mods I've done to the game, but nothing that should, to my knowledge affect metals available in that manner at all.

(EDIT: Clarification on what was brought.)

(EDIT TWO: Nevermind. Sigh. Looking closely at my personal edits, it looks like I made a mistake in my raws that is resulting in, possibly, duplicate entries. I usually delete the vanilla raw adamantine out, and enter in a different material, with the name raw adamantine, and it looks like I forgot to delete the original entry. There's two raw_adamantine entries in my inorganic_stone raw. I'm pretty sure that'll result in some insanity, won't it? Or no?)

[Walkaboutout]

If need be this can be moved to the modding section since it appears this may turn into a question for more experienced modders. I'm a dork. Interesting results though!

[Dunamisdeos]

Duplicate it again. See whut !!Science!! occurs.

[NullForceOmega]

It's fine to ask questions of this nature here, after all, we all make mistakes.

As for your two bars of faceted metal, acquire them now, and use the coin duplication method to create infinite amounts of said metal.

[Walkaboutout]

So after some playing around, as requested, here were some results. Though admittedly little science was done, it's a bit underwhelming I'm afraid.

It is indeed considered by the game a stone or boulder, and not a metal. It's just called faceted metal mind you, not a faceted metal bar. I just assumed when I first saw it, that it was a metal bar; but not so, as far as the game is concerned. It is to the game a stone, whose name is simply faceted metal. Confusing, I know!

I could only treat it as stone; it couldn't be smelted, nor could I use a metal forge to make a faceted metal item, for example a short sword. Doing so resulted in "need faceted metal bar". I could, however make stone stuff out of it. The most interesting thing I could think of was, of course a shortsword. It had listed as its uses "make sharp blades" so I figured that, like obsidian, I could make a stone sword.

Sure enough, that worked. I ended up with a faceted metal shortsword. It weighed less than 1 Urist, and appeared to be superior to steel, as there was very little in the way of deflects against steel armor (I sent him to attack a steel armor wearing gobby invader, as I had given steel making to goblins).

However, the metal in my game that is equivalent to vanilla adamantine (I basically changed adamantine's name to mithril, and that's all), appeared to be superior. I had no way of testing it against someone wearing mithril armor, so I loaded up the arena using that save's raws. Assuming the faceted metal listed in it was the same stuff I was messing with in the save, the mithril deflected it lots. So, all in all, an interesting occurrence, but it appears that the faceted metal in my game is somewhat inferior to vanilla adamantine, which is what I recall reading in a thread where some science had been done on the new metals.