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[Sponge]

 So, I made a plant be made out of a metal like material template. But for some reason, even though the material has [IS_METAL], the plant can't be made into metal objects in arena mode. Do I have to make a custom reaction and make this plant the reagent like with thread, or is there an easy way to make it harvest-able then melt-able?

[Meph]

As far as I know, only METAL_TEMPLATE itself is meltable, its hardcoded. It might also be that the item type PLANT is not meltable. DF is strange like that, for example I once used a BOULDER made of a rotting material, but the boulder never rotted, because its not a FOOD or PLANT item. Sometimes specific combinations of materials and items simply dont work.

[Putnam]

As far as I know, only METAL_TEMPLATE itself is meltable, its hardcoded.

No, more likely it's the [IS_METAL] token that METAL_TEMPLATE happens to contain.

But yeah, some items don't act in certain ways, presumably either for performance reasons or because Toady never really considered that some people might like rotting bars of meat.

[Sponge]

As far as I know, only METAL_TEMPLATE itself is meltable, its hardcoded.

No, more likely it's the [IS_METAL] token that METAL_TEMPLATE happens to contain.

But yeah, some items don't act in certain ways, presumably either for performance reasons or because Toady never really considered that some people might like rotting bars of meat.

So I'll have to go with making a custom reaction?

[SeiggrainHart]

As far as I know, only METAL_TEMPLATE itself is meltable, its hardcoded.

No, more likely it's the [IS_METAL] token that METAL_TEMPLATE happens to contain.

But yeah, some items don't act in certain ways, presumably either for performance reasons or because Toady never really considered that some people might like rotting bars of meat.

So I'll have to go with making a custom reaction?

Most likely.