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[mndfreeze]

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  I think it would be better, if the plan was to find more metals to add to the game, to go the fantasy route and add something like mithril.  Since currently there is only adamantine. 
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FYI Adamantine is a lawyer-friendly version of Mithril. Toady One didn't want to challenge the Tolkien estate.

heheh well it was just a quick off the top of my head example of some non existant fantasy metal.   Doesnt matter to me what it gets called.

[mnjiman]

Gotta temper the steel, and put lots and lots of little crystallized cracks in it! It becomes hard due to the internal structure changing to that of lots and lots of crystals all hugging each other, making it hard! However do to the fact that you know have all these little cracks in the steel, its brittle due to having difficulty holding itself together. Poor steel

However, heating the steel allows for all those cracks to come together and hug each other! You lose hardest due to some of the crystal structure losing its shape, however since the fractures are now healed its loses a lot of its brittleness!

I am of course no smith, or engineer, or anything. Just random thoughts!

You are essentially right, but your terminology is wrong - step 2 is called tempering.  People confuse quench-hardening and tempering all the time

Doh! O well.