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[Sirus]

I wasn't sure whether or not to report this on the tracker, so here goes.

I'm playing the Steam version, having a lot of fun but my DF knowledge is extremely out of date; I never really got around to updating from 40d. So it's taking me a while to get situated but in my second Autumn on this fort I've finally set up a forge. I go into the Weapons & Ammunition menu planning to make some bolts or maybe some spears, but I paused when I noticed something very odd.

Most metals were not listed in the menu at all; in fact the only options were iron, copper, bronze, steel, bismuth bronze, and adamantine. Except, that's not quite true. There were a great many options listed that I had never heard of, and apparently are quite spoilerific according to a friend on Discord.

Spoiler: Putting them here on the safe side (click to show/hide)

Is this normal? Again, I haven't played since 40d but I'm pretty sure it was possible to use a much greater variety of metals in the old days, and there certainly wasn't all this other stuff.

[Steelmagic]

So, I'm only a bit less out of date compared to you, but from what I've seen.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

These metals are divine metals, digging very deep you can find artifacts made of them and, though I haven't found any, I believe raw metals of the same kind, guarded by some hardcore enemies.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Divine_metal The spoilery wiki page on them.

Unfortunately I don't remember ammunition types that were available back then.

[Miuramir]

It appears to be working as intended that bolts can only be deliberately made from "weapons grade" metals.  I'm not sure when this change was made, but it appears to have been in place for DF 2014 aka 0.47. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This includes all of the procedurally generated "divine metals", which have been around for a while but were previously rarely seen in fortress mode.  They are generally better than steel, but less good than the "ultimate" edged weapon material.  I'm not sure what the intention is with regards to these, but I've noticed that there are spoiler materials on the list even early in a fort.  Whether that has to do with what is present on your site, and/or whether your civilization has officially "discovered" it, I'm not clear on.

[Feathermind]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ah, the divine stuff.  That was all added to the forge menus when vaults were introduced; I believe it includes the full list of procedurally generated divine metals for that world, just in case you happen to stumble across some.  I used to temporarily retire a fort so I could send out an adventurer to collect it in vaults and deliver it (by retiring the adventurer at that site) for smelting down into proper dwarven quality goods.

[Flying Dice]

Vanilla still allows silver and platinum for weapons and ammo. If you're playing with Genesis, Deon removes [ITEMS_WEAPON][ITEMS_AMMO] from their raws and you'll have to add it back.

That's all I can think of. No other metals are supposed to show up in the weapons menu. Each submenu is only going to show the allowable materials for that class of item. The rest, as others have noted, are new spoilers.

[Bumber]

Vanilla still allows silver and platinum for weapons and ammo.

Platinum isn't vanilla except in artifacts.

[Flying Dice]

Vanilla still allows silver and platinum for weapons and ammo.

Platinum isn't vanilla except in artifacts.

Oh, right you are -- I'm so used to seeing it there lol.

Makes the point stronger though, all that's missing from that list is silver.

[Saiko Kila]

Makes the point stronger though, all that's missing from that list is silver.

Silver is listed in the list, OP just forgot about it. However, a list of items craftable with silver is shorter than with for example iron or copper, notably the crossbow and the pick cannot be made out of it.

[Flying Dice]

Ah, yeah, didn't notice that Sirus had scrolled down to capture the full set of divines. Everything normal then.

[martinuzz]

Is that 'material' tab even for bolts? Since it lacks bone and wood (you can craft bone and wooden bolts in vanilla Steam), I figured it was for the material the crossbow is made from, not the bolts.
Also, I am about as rusty as Sirius. I did play some 0.47, but most of my knowledge is 40d (and earlier)

EDIT: oh wait I misread the OP. You're talking about the metalsmithing options, I was referring to the materials in the uniform tab