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[LoSboccacc]

ok, I'm a total newbie about the raw and modding of dwarf fortress

I'd like to make all kind of metals available for smithing, so that I can make my silver guards with their proper armor

where should I start?
I happily went to search into the raws for the forge or the reactions to make up stuff, but I can't found them anywhere so I guess that part is hardcoded or something, so I went into the metal description and found that ITEMS_WEAPON tag, and added it to every metal.

but now they don't show up into the forge menu; what I'm missing?

[JmzLost]

The raws are saved with your game, so if you want to change something in your current fortress, you have to go to ~/data/save/region1/inorganic_metal.txt.  The region is whichever one you're playing in right now.  If you change the top-level raws, the changes will take effect the next time you gen a new world.

You'll need [ITEMS_ARMOR] to make armor.  I tend to copy the entire line from iron, so I can make weapons, armor, anvils, etc from everything except bismuth and pig iron. Especially useful in my current fort, since the only ore I've found is gold.

JMZ

[LoSboccacc]

thank you! forgot about the cloned raws and armor stuff. I'll try asap