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[medikohl]

does anyone have any thoughts as to what else I should add in?

[Black_Legion]

Interactions and secerets are always fun to add in to a mod as well as make. You could do battle mages, healers, boozemancers, or even just some more creatures. Your centipede is really well done and one of the first creatures I've added that I didn't have frothyme beastiary I've been compiling since 31.xx. Dwarves could always use better ranged weapons (i made a mechanzed crossbow before and it was quite fun, expensive though to equip more than a few squads). Evil creatures could use some love as well. Seeing the same swarm of thrips people and giant mosquitoes gets boring if that's all you see.

Making a Monster Hunter-like Beasts Workshop could be interesting especially if you could make decent armor from something like a centipede. Try looking at this mod, it's pretty cool but hasn't been updated in a long time --> http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3202

[medikohl]

Interactions and secerets are always fun to add in to a mod as well as make. You could do battle mages, healers, boozemancers, or even just some more creatures. Your centipede is really well done and one of the first creatures I've added that I didn't have frothyme beastiary I've been compiling since 31.xx. Dwarves could always use better ranged weapons (i made a mechanzed crossbow before and it was quite fun, expensive though to equip more than a few squads). Evil creatures could use some love as well. Seeing the same swarm of thrips people and giant mosquitoes gets boring if that's all you see.

Making a Monster Hunter-like Beasts Workshop could be interesting especially if you could make decent armor from something like a centipede. Try looking at this mod, it's pretty cool but hasn't been updated in a long time --> http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3202

I'm still relatively new to all this, how would i go about setting up chitin materials? do they pop up when butchered?

[medikohl]

I'm also staying away from modifying too much of what dwarves can do.

making new and interesting things? that's a dorf right there.
magic? that sounds like elf talk to me.

I've also been adding more natural sources for resources to the game.  Anthracite for coal, flint for weapons, limonite and hematite produce a bit of coal on occasion. and added a new reaction for "starmetal" a bit better than steel, but more resource intensive for the end result (2 iron, 1 pig iron, 1 nickel = 3 starmetal may be tweaking those numbers later).

[medikohl]

thinking of making black powder bayonet muskets

that or a bayonet bowgun

[medikohl]

sulfur, charcoal, salt peter= black powder

[medikohl]

ok learned something interesting.

my willow trading post became a !!willow trading post!!  when a goblin thief showed up while the (fire-breathing) drake men were trading with my fortress..... future note-make trade depot out of stone

[Deon]

It should be anthracite, not anthricite. And more coal types is always good.

[medikohl]

It should be anthracite, not anthricite. And more coal types is always good.

dammit you're right. any way I researched it and it appears in metamorphic layers as opposed to sedimentary layers. (which is where all the rest show up)

most of the things I've been adding have some basis in realism.  Starmetal might be a bit fantasyish; however, I went with what the metal composition of the majority of metal bearing meteorites are (nickel iron).

[Deon]

Starmetal could be just meteoric iron, it's perfectly realistic. Many nations actually called it "star iron" or "star metal".

[medikohl]

Starmetal could be just meteoric iron, it's perfectly realistic. Many nations actually called it "star iron" or "star metal".

I'd actually made it into an alloy, it's a bit better than steel, and slightly more valuable

[Jeoshua]

Most nickel-iron alloy from meteorites is tinted a distinctive dark green, leading to the green swords of legend from the Chinese and Japanese people.

So yeah.  It's realistic as all get out

[medikohl]

next update will have a new custom workshop.
-bed crafters workshop-requires bonecarver skill to make
--allows the creation of bone and leather beds-bonecarver skill
--allows the creation of hammocks from ropes or chains-clothier skill

[Black_Legion]

If you want more alloys to play around with you can try this reaction:

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-- Dwarven Cold Steel Production --
===================================

// -- Using a combination of cobalt, nickel, and iron (which is sued to make high grade, stainless steel in industry)
// -- Unlike the regular process it requires more iron but can use cobalt and nickel provided on site.

[REACTION:BL_MAKE_COLD_STEEL_BARS]
[NAME:make cold steel bars]
[REAGENT:A:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:NICKEL]                           ** Requires 1 nickel bar
[REAGENT:B:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:COBALT]                          ** Requires 1 cobalt bar
[REAGENT:D:300:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:IRON]                              ** Requires 2 bars of iron
[REAGENT:E:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:COAL:NO_MATGLOSS]
[PRODUCT:100:2:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:STEEL][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]

// Possible chance to create cold steel?

[FUEL]
[SKILL:SMELT]

================================
-- End of Cold Steel Reaction --
================================

[REACTION:BL_SMELT_COBALT]
[NAME:smelt cobalt]
[BUILDING:SMELTER:NONE]
[REAGENT:A:1:BOULDER:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:COBALTITE]
[PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:COBALT][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
[FUEL]
[SKILL:SMELT]

=======================
-- Cobalt Metal File --
=======================

** Note: I forget where I got this from but it either came from Seth's Wizard tower mod or a .31 mod a while back. I need to start organizing these things better.

[INORGANIC:COBALT]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:METAL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:cobalt]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten cobalt]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling cobalt]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:7:3:0]
[BUILD_COLOR:7:3:0]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:10]
[SPEC_HEAT:420]
[MELTING_POINT:12691] 1768 K
[BOILING_POINT:15268] 3200 K
[SOLID_DENSITY:8900] in kg per cubic meter
[LIQUID_DENSITY:7750]
[MOLAR_MASS:58930]
[IMPACT_YIELD:196800] Using 3.5x tensile
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:391200]
[IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:97]  copied compressive strain at yield
[COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:196800]
[COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:391200]
[COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:97] like gold, bulk modulus 180 GPa, scale seems to be about .5389 Urists per 1 GPa
[TENSILE_YIELD:65600] conversion seems to be about 1 Urist per 2 psi
[TENSILE_FRACTURE:130400]
[TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:171] young's modulus 209 GPa, gold scale shows about .8205 Urists per 1 GPa (gold has 64 at 78 GPa)
[TORSION_YIELD:61200] without clearer info, using 2x Modulus of Elasticity ksi
[TORSION_FRACTURE:122400]
[TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:320] not sure what to do here, value based on Poisson's Ratio
[SHEAR_YIELD:12000]
[SHEAR_FRACTURE:24000]
[SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:524] shear modulus 75 GPa, gold scale shows about 6.852 Urists per 1 GPa (gold has 185 at 27 GPa)
[BENDING_YIELD:61200]
[BENDING_FRACTURE:122400]
[BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:32]
[MAX_EDGE:10000]
[ITEMS_AMMO][ITEMS_ARMOR]                          *** Feel free to remove these if you want, cobalt is a hard material but no armors/weapons were actually made from them.
[ITEMS_HARD]
[ITEMS_METAL]
[ITEMS_BARRED]
[ITEMS_SCALED]



Essentially this is a way to make still without coke but still grounded in game balance as it requires 3 separate metals: Cobalt, Iron, and Nickel. Overall it requires 1 bar of nickel, 1 bar of cobalt, 2 iron bars, and some charcoal which makes it at or slightly more expensive to produce than normal steel. You save on 1 charcoal and a flux stone but pay for two metal ores in the end. This alloy is called high speed steel in actual industry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_speed_steel

I call it cold steel since I use cobalt and iron to make cold iron in a separate reaction. The nickle and the cobalt act as flux and allow some impurities to give the alloy in the high speed steel some strength like the normal steel process. This makes up for not having flux stone in most embarks as nickel and cobalt are pretty common. If this seems like something that could fit in your mod feel free to use it. I'm always a fan allowing people multiple ways to solve problems and this addresses the somewhat hit or miss scenario of iron and flux being on the same embark.

[micha]

omg ratling traders!