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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: Agitated Roc on June 26, 2023, 09:31:18 pm

Title: Sharpest ingame material?
Post by: Agitated Roc on June 26, 2023, 09:31:18 pm
What is the sharpest ingame material? Doesn't matter if it's weapon grade or not. Is there anything sharper than adamantine I could make using DwarfHack?
Title: Re: Sharpest ingame material?
Post by: Bumber on June 26, 2023, 10:03:58 pm
No. Adamantine is sharp in a way that breaks physics.
Title: Re: Sharpest ingame material?
Post by: Ziusudra on June 27, 2023, 04:28:23 am
You could increase the sharpness of Adamantine further in the raws by increasing it's MAX_EDGE, but I can never remember which changes need a new world gen.

There's gui/gm-editor world.raws.inorganics that has material.strength.max_edge for each but I don't know if making changes there would change the material properties the game uses.
Title: Re: Sharpest ingame material?
Post by: Quietust on June 27, 2023, 06:33:46 pm
You could increase the sharpness of Adamantine further in the raws by increasing it's MAX_EDGE, but I can never remember which changes need a new world gen.

There's gui/gm-editor world.raws.inorganics that has material.strength.max_edge for each but I don't know if making changes there would change the material properties the game uses.
Those values are the material properties the game uses - they are populated once you load a world, and they are cleared out when you return to the title screen.

However, changing the MAX_EDGE of a material will only have a direct effect on newly-crafted weapons - every existing weapon individually stores its sharpness value along with its other properties, and during creation that value is initialized based on the weapon's Quality (going from 50% for base-quality to 100% for masterworks). This actually means that you could theoretically take any individual weapon in your fortress and change its sharpness to whatever you want.
Title: Re: Sharpest ingame material?
Post by: hedgerow on July 01, 2023, 04:10:09 pm
What is the sharpest ingame material? Doesn't matter if it's weapon grade or not. Is there anything sharper than adamantine I could make using DwarfHack?

Slade.

You gotta channel slade but you can make a hammer with edited raws.

It gills.

(https://i.cbc.ca/1.2684297.1403528936!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/cern-large-hadron-collider.jpg)
Title: Re: Sharpest ingame material?
Post by: Bumber on July 03, 2023, 03:09:03 pm
Slade.

Slade has a MAX_EDGE of 1000, worse than copper (10000.)