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[Nil Eyeglazed]

According to the DF raws, it would suck compared to copper armor, even with the artifact bonus. DF aluminum is weaker than gold, for some reason. Modern aluminum alloys can be rather good. Titanium is even better at the strength-weight ratio, but it can only be smelted in a special atmosphere.

Even modern aluminum alloys have poor volume-strength ratios, as compared to things like steel.

If you want strong aluminum, you need to make your item bigger.  That's how you can easily recognize, for instance, aluminum bicycle frames vs. steel frames-- the tubes are much larger, even though they're still lighter.

DF uses a sort of "one-volume-fits-all" approach.  You can't make a thicker breastplate out of aluminum, which is what you'd do if you wanted to take advantage of the weight-strength ratio.

[Niccolo]

Getting Alum. Ore
Or do you mean !!FUN!!? Because I actually don't see any of that here.

Nah, I wasn't aiming for magmatic entertainment or burning things down. I'm one of the more level-headed people on this forum, I suspect.

But I do enjoy relatively complicated things. And even if we clean the bauxite with lye, aluminium ore must still be refined through a special process. It's a right pain in real life.

[MarcAFK]

I aways wondere how dwarfs can make rope spikes?!

Probably use some sort of glue made from kitten bones.
Sometimes i wonder if we need things like glue/mortar/nails/etc to make the ridiculous things we can build out of raw materials a little more realistic, but then again, more complexity/clutter and wasted dorfpower/FPS that this game doesn't need ATM.

[franti]

I aways wondere how dwarfs can make rope spikes?!

Probably use some sort of glue made from kitten bones.
Sometimes i wonder if we need things like glue/mortar/nails/etc to make the ridiculous things we can build out of raw materials a little more realistic, but then again, more complexity/clutter and wasted dorfpower/FPS that this game doesn't need ATM.

Whenever it says "spikes of cloth", I just imagine small, hanging banners.