This is amazing. I'm incredibly happy that people were so on board with working on this.
I maintain that this is the greatest and best community in the world.
Huzzah!
It looks like we all started with fat/tallow as a template -- my only quibble is that spermaceti should technically melt at 10090 Urists.
Should be easily changed?
Are these the full raws? I noticed that you edited it. I'd love to try your raws out on the latest version in arena mode.
Sort of, see the raws I posted. They are his, but complete! Just save the files with the names given and copy to raw/objects/
For the value of the materials, it'll take some time to find what exactly works best. I'd say that five would probably be okay. That makes it much less than the rare metals, but not too low. Also, on par with parts from non-dragon valuable land creatures and such (I think).
Some thought should be given to how much material is harvested from one whale (don't forget Giant and Man varieties), and how much processed material can be gained. Capturing, butchering, and processing even a single whale will be quite the endeavor, however each one yields literally hundreds of gallons (maximum 2,000 litres (530 gallons), according to
Britannica) of oil. A single catch should be incredibly valuable, but not insanely so (for some definition of insane).
Wikipedia has additional chemical properties (like flash point!) that may be useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_oilAs noted on reddit, Sperm Oil technically can't be made into soap, but I am willing to overlook that and assimilate Sperm Oil into the same schema as other oils in the game. This is a game in which monsters made of vomit can have seven arms and spew webs, after all.
I agree, but if it would be easy to prevent soap making.. I say lets do it! If not, meh, Sperm Oil Soap will be a thing!
Here's my raws, I hate pasting in the forum, so here's a link. Once we get a final version we can toss it on DFFD.
Would love to toss it up there once we converge on a good and balanced version. Call it the Urist McAhab mod?
Absolutely, though I don't have much time to continue testing this, so I encourage anyone to take those raws and run with them.