True but don't you require 3 times as many [WAFERS] to forge an item as you require bars? I'm not going to add the [WAFERS] tag to any metal I'm going to use for forging armor, weapons, or furniture.
Uh. Yes.
I'm not quite following what the issue is here.
You cut my post in half.
If your metal can be used for clothing, but not thread, it'll use the bars.
Well I'm going to try to explain my end of it without this devolving into a flame war.
My point is that you can make specific reactions for the metals you wish to have threads for without using the [WAFERS] token on the raw ore, it is just a different way of doing the same thing. I feel it has advantages should I wish to make clothing out of a metal I also wish to use in the production of weapons, armor, statues or furniture (iron clothing for example) yes I could use the wafers to make the other items but it cost me more in raw ore to do so (basically 1 bar = 3 wafers for production of items, but 1 raw ore makes either 1 bar or 1 wafer, which means that making large objects out of wafers costs me 3 times as much raw materials).
For example Plate mail
Plate mail = size 9 = 3 bars = 3 raw ore
Plate mail = size 9 = 9 wafers = 9 raw ore
If I had a metal that I only wished to make clothing and craft goods out of I would certainly go the wafer route as that is less of a headache. If I had a metal that I wanted to be rare and expensive to extract then I would go the wafer route. If I have a metal I want to use to make lots of big items and it isn't particularly rare but also want to make clothing out of it I would use my thread reaction.
[Edit] It would also be possible to make all metals wafers and then have a reaction to make bars for the large objects (probably out of raw ore as compressing 3 wafers to a bar is mostly pointless). I wonder if it is easier to store bars than wafers in a stock pile.[/Edit]
As far as removing half your post from the quotes I did it to save space, much like you replaced my post that you quoted with "words." I'm not offended by your replacing my post with "words" yet you seem to be offended by my shortening your post... Eh whatever, life is short.