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[Snake_Eyes]

Urlium is the lighter-than-air metal from Lin Carter's Thongor of Lemuria books.

Could dorf !!science!! make such a thing possible?

This would just be a negative weight adjustment in game mechanics.

For something like armour allowing your dorfs a larger backpack for hauling rocks when moving things to storage. It could be used to make a floating bridge across magma. Composite arrows so that they were lighter than fairy floss. Shoes that made you jump. Air cages for trapping ravens.

Thanks for you time to read this,
Snake_Eyes

[10ebbor10]

1: No using of copyrighted material.

It would be fun to implement floating or flying materials, but we will first have to implement actual density. At this moment everything sinks.

Also, light arrows are useless. Something needs mass to transfer force. (Unless you make your arrows go ridicouly fast, by which point they'll probably on fire).

[AutomataKittay]

Also, light arrows are useless. Something needs mass to transfer force. (Unless you make your arrows go ridicouly fast, by which point they'll probably on fire).

It'd involve something like relativistic velocity and plasma shockwave, wouldn't it? Bluemetal's already pretty bad at piercing armor because of it's lightness even with it's sharpness

As for op, negative mass' been done, but it don't works, currently. And as noted, light arrow are useless because air friction will slow it down so much, there are a reason that lead and iron is strongly preferred in ballistic stuffs. Bluemetal's pretty good example of the issues with lightness as I've noted.

Maybe when density get implemented properly in relationship to buoyancy, and not for throwing/fired weapons

( Also it should be named Floatium )

[10ebbor10]

Bluemettal is sharp enough to cause atomic fision near the edge.

Also, nah, not Floatium, probably some High fantasy sounding Latin inspired (or computer generated) name.

[Cool Guy]

Bluemettal is sharp enough to cause atomic fision near the edge.

Also, nah, not Floatium, probably some High fantasy sounding Latin inspired (or computer generated) name.

Levthan? Latin Roots make that mean Light Death

[Haspen]

Well, full word is 'levis' so why not 'Levisum'? or Levium?

[Cool Guy]

Well, full word is 'levis' so why not 'Levisum'? or Levium?

Probably work either way, I just pulled the roots from Wikipedia so if I made some dumb mistake I apologize.

[Robosaur]

I'm all for levium. Levium plates should act as supports to keep a fortress off the ground!

[Deimos56]

I'm all for levium. Levium plates should act as supports to keep a fortress off the ground!

Maybe could be used for some particularly interesting moving fortress parts too, once we get those.

[Cool Guy]

My new way of killing prisoners would be to fashion bracelets out of the new material and have the executiony equip them somehow, then I would just set them outside and watch as they slowly drifted away, higher and higher until POP! he dies.

[G-Flex]

You would need bracelets about the size of a large sofa for that to happen. Possibly larger?

[Cool Guy]

Fine, I shall dress them in robes made of the stuff. Then they'll fly.

[C27]

Even if it has a mass of zero, it can't lift anything else unless it has enough volume to displace it's cargo's weight in air.

[10ebbor10]

Even if it has a mass of zero, it can't lift anything else unless it has enough volume to displace it's cargo's weight in air.

Magic allows things to have negative weights.

[Snake_Eyes]

10ebbor10 what is the range that negative numbers can be?

Can there be anti-Slade and anti-Adamantine?

Cheers,
Snake_Eyes