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[StagnantSoul]

I'm finally in the mood for modding again, and today I'm working on armour and metals. I want to make a refined bronze of sorts, involving mixing multiple bars of bronze, some ash, and flux together, to make a lesser amount of superior bronze. I want it to be heavy, not as sharp as steel, but sharper than bronze, but mostly, better than platinum for blunt weapons. What makes a metal good for blunt weapons?

[scamtank]

Sheer density. Really!

The stuff that makes armor good against bludgeoning force (impact yield/fracture/strain) has no part in making a club hit better. They are only as good as the metal they're made from is heavy.

[Putnam]

That's not true at all.

Warhammers (size 400, recorded as 40 in the code) that have a material IMPACT_YIELD of 2499 or less will not be able to "defeat" even a layer weight of 1, due to rounding, and will always deflect. Likewise for bolts (size 150 => 15) and IMPACT_YIELD of 6666, provided the bolts can't cut the layer.

[scamtank]

Oh, dang. Completely forgot about that check. I even described the effect in detail to someone just a while ago. Ah, well.

But even then, the impact yield is still just a binary "hits/deflects" gate that doesn't come up often with metallic clubs. The mass of the weapon alone is still what ultimately determines the damage.

[StagnantSoul]

So the metal being heavier than platinum alone would make it the best war hammer weapon?

[scamtank]

That's the gist of it. As long as your impact yield/fracture values are in the same class as other metals (instead of, say, meat), the effect Putnam mentioned isn't going to be an issue.

[StagnantSoul]

Oh, okay. My thoughts are, this, with my other two modded metals, would make a roche-papier-scisso set up, with Burning Steel being the really great defensive , and light, Colossus Bronze (or whatever I rename it in the end) being a slow hammer dwarf metal, and some third metal filling in as the supreme cutter. All outweighed by the presence of candy, though, but beating out steel and iron readily, but requiring a lot of forging and burning and slaughtering.

[IRIS_EYE_AZURE]

Just a comment:

Density matters only because weapons are designated with a fixed volume. In the real world, this makes no sense:if you wanted a hammer that keeps its shape after repeated blows, you'd pick a reasonably tough material, then enlarge the hammer head until you could no longer swing it repeatedly. So I'd recommend you just make a "heavy hammer" with a larger size rather than to use an unrealistic, or worse, made-up high density material.

[StagnantSoul]

Well all the metals are alchemic in nature, so it's fine if they're not real.