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[Alem]

I feel as if I have to be missing something obvious here as others have done it, but for the life of me I cannot find the information to translate the real world properties of a material into the DF properties. It seems fairly easy to find the young, bulk, and shear modulus for a material but I just can't figure out or find how to translate those values into the DF material definition.

[_DivideByZero_]

I would also love to know as I would like to add wolfram and titanium into my game (albeit titanium's going to need a name change to something like... I don't know, feather steel?)

[Reelyanoob]

There's a bunch of threads and downloads adding Titanium and even Wolfram. Go to the top level of the "modding" forum, and do a search for Titanium.

[Alem]

Thank you for the reply . My primary curiosity was to see how Cobalt would relate to Iron as I recalled it is supposed to have similar properties, and I like cobalt blue. (And for the record I do know that refined cobalt is roughly the same color as iron, one can pretend  ). For the poster above me I did find in the forums a formula for deriving the values from this post http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=84247.0 So now I am just left with trying to find the mechanical properties of anything I think might be neat to add. Its surprisingly difficult to find values for when specific stressors will cause fracture past the yield point.

[_DivideByZero_]

There's a bunch of threads and downloads adding Titanium and even Wolfram. Go to the top level of the "modding" forum, and do a search for Titanium.

Yes but none of them have the properties I want. Admittedly I don't want to use the real world value because in real life titanium is very lousy for swords, so I plan to nerf that.

Wolfram is definitely not going to be realistic since it would make terrible weapons to start with (It's super hard--but that means its more brittle), so I'm going for an insanely effective blunt weapon.

The only problem is that i have little to no idea what the values actually mean, because the wiki is confusing and doesn't even explain some things.

EDIT: Thank you so much for the link!