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[Balor]

Well, it is native aluminum, it is indeed very flimsy. Aluminum alloys that are heat-treated are good, but this is rather high-tech affair.
Oh well, maybe someday in the future... along with radiation and some ways to utilize that uranium ore .

[FrisianDude]

Also, related question, how useful is a wooden breastplate? I seem to have some after killing two Elven caravans.

As you can see, those didn't protect them well, so to trash compactor they go.

Merchants only wore rope reed fiber.

[TolyK]

As I mod almost all metals to be weapon/armor craftable, this is relevant to my interests.

Almost all. Until Toady One enables radiation NOBODY needs a lead breastplate.

Really? Pitchblende human forts?

[Bromosapian]

Aluminum?  Dunno.


ALUMINIUM?  WEAK.

[noppa354]

Come on guys, it's an artifact so it might be better than bronze or iron, if said bronze or iron armors were like 2 or 3 quality levels lower.

[Owlbread]

I'd like to enshrine it if I could. Aluminium is a very valuable metal, is it not?

[shadowform]

As I mod almost all metals to be weapon/armor craftable, this is relevant to my interests.

Almost all. Until Toady One enables radiation NOBODY needs a lead breastplate.

I have a tendency to do this too...  but only because finding a set of masterwork golden armor makes for an interesting, if not particularly useful, find to an adventurer.

[veok]

For what it's worth, the lightness of aluminum armor probably means nothing. Weight of equipment doesn't actually seem to slow dwarves down at all.

Not true -- the weight of armor slows Dwarves down, and this weight penalty is in turn reduced by armor-user skill.

[K17U]

As I mod almost all metals to be weapon/armor craftable, this is relevant to my interests.

Almost all. Until Toady One enables radiation NOBODY needs a lead breastplate.

I have a tendency to do this too...  but only because finding a set of masterwork golden armor makes for an interesting, if not particularly useful, find to an adventurer.

Platinum war hammers....
This might become my first little modding project.

[TheJackal]

As I mod almost all metals to be weapon/armor craftable, this is relevant to my interests.

Almost all. Until Toady One enables radiation NOBODY needs a lead breastplate.

I have a tendency to do this too...  but only because finding a set of masterwork golden armor makes for an interesting, if not particularly useful, find to an adventurer.

Platinum war hammers....
This might become my first little modding project.

It is very interesting, and funny to pick up strange metal weapons and armor from goblins. Plus it means I can put honor guards and my internal police in shiny brass or electrum armor. SHINY! Yes, you can make platinum warhammers, and they are pretty effective.

As for the modding project, its pretty easy! Go into your RAW directory and open inorganic_metal.txt and you'll see the entries for each metal. They'll look like this:

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[INORGANIC:GOLD]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:METAL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME:SOLID:gold]
[STATE_NAME:SOLID_POWDER:gold dust]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:gold]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten gold]
To make the metal weapon/armor/whatever capable, all you need to do is add any of the following to the metal's entry;
[ITEMS_WEAPON]
[ITEMS_WEAPON_RANGED]
[ITEMS_AMMO]
[ITEMS_DIGGER]
[ITEMS_ARMOR]
[ITEMS_ANVIL]

I think those properties are pretty self explanatory! For example, to make platinum warhammers just find the PLATINUM entry and insert [ITEMS_WEAPON] in there. I'm not sure of you need to regenerate the world - I think not though.

[FrisianDude]

What's that you say? Gold bolts? Why, don't mind if I do!

[FrisianDude]

Really? Pitchblende human forts?

Holy fuck, Pitchblende is a major ore for Uranium. :| Not sure if I want to live in a fort made of that.

[3]

Not true -- the weight of armor slows Dwarves down, and this weight penalty is in turn reduced by armor-user skill.

This is how things should work, yes, but I don't think it's the way they currently do.

[G-Flex]

For what it's worth, the lightness of aluminum armor probably means nothing. Weight of equipment doesn't actually seem to slow dwarves down at all.

Not true -- the weight of armor slows Dwarves down, and this weight penalty is in turn reduced by armor-user skill.

Then this changed recently. Last time I tried in arena mode, it didn't actually matter.

[CapnUrist]

I'd like to enshrine it if I could. Aluminium is a very valuable metal, is it not?

Just as valuable as Platinum, that is, second only to bluemetal.